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>The new PowerPC Linux Release 4 (http://www.linuxppc.org/) is said to be
>faster and more stable than the previous release, booting into a graphic
>desktop environment. The software bundle includes Netscape Communicator
>4.0.5 and GIMP 1.0, a "professional-grade graphics editor."

>                             "PowerPC Linux runs on virtually every
>PowerPC produced, including the Power Macintosh, Macintosh clones, and
>the
>                             PowerBook 3400 and G3 series. It also runs
>on the Apple Network Server, BeBox, IBM ThinkPad 850, Motorola
>                             PowerSTACK, and several RS/6000 models."

>Obviously, the part-time unpaid engineers on the LinuxPPC and MkLinux
>projects must be quite a bit smarter than Apple's full time engineers,
>since they have managed to provide UNIX support for all PPC Macs ---
>even pre-G3s!  (NuBus included). Moreover, the MkLinux project has done
>so with the same Mach 3.0 microkernel that Apple will use with Mac OS X.

>Apple should fire everyone of their full time engineers and hire these
>much smarter folks, as they can create a fast rocksolid OS with greater
>model support and without ANY Apple documentation about Apple hardware
>than can Apple's engineers, with a multi-million dollar budget, and
>complete hardware specs.

> I had a daydream today about how Linux could save Apple's butt. It
> goes something like this:

> One day, in the near future, Caldera, the maker of one of the popular
> Linux distributions, buys/(murges with) Netscape. Later, their
> combined stock starts to pickup steam...it gets high enough that they
> can use it to buy Apple.

> Then the fun starts. Board Chairman Noordia (sp?) and Pres/CEO
> Barksdale turn Apple into a Linux company. They port ALL Mac software
> to Linux, all the while working to make Linux as easy to use as a Mac.

> They cut hardware prices and put Linux on all their hardware from
> servers to Newtons. After a painful restructuring, Apple makes a real
> comeback and is one of the biggest and most profitable Linux
> distributors.

> Like I said, this is just a daydream.

> lee

> L. Shelton Bumgarner -- Keeper of the Great Renaming FAQ
> Nattering Nabob of Narcissism * http://www.nottowayez.net/~leebum/
> ICQ#: 9393354 * "Given two unrelated technical terms, an Internet
> search engine will retrieve only resumes." -- Schachter's Hypothesis

>> On Tue, 28 Jul 1998 12:34:14 -0400, "Jon G. Temple"

>> I had a daydream today about how Linux could save Apple's butt. It
>> goes something like this:

>> One day, in the near future, Caldera, the maker of one of the popular
>> Linux distributions, buys/(murges with) Netscape. Later, their
>> combined stock starts to pickup steam...it gets high enough that they
>> can use it to buy Apple.

>> Then the fun starts. Board Chairman Noordia (sp?) and Pres/CEO
>> Barksdale turn Apple into a Linux company. They port ALL Mac software
>> to Linux, all the while working to make Linux as easy to use as a Mac.

>> They cut hardware prices and put Linux on all their hardware from
>> servers to Newtons. After a painful restructuring, Apple makes a real
>> comeback and is one of the biggest and most profitable Linux
>> distributors.

>> Like I said, this is just a daydream.

>> lee

>> L. Shelton Bumgarner -- Keeper of the Great Renaming FAQ
>> Nattering Nabob of Narcissism * http://www.nottowayez.net/~leebum/
>> ICQ#: 9393354 * "Given two unrelated technical terms, an Internet
>> search engine will retrieve only resumes." -- Schachter's Hypothesis