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> Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 09:59:33 -0800
> Subject: FYI -- Linux for PowerMac

Monday, February 05, 1996

 APPLE AND OPEN SOFTWARE
 FOUNDATION ANNOUNCE LINUX FOR
 POWER MACINTOSH

 From: PR Newswire


 /FROM PR NEWSWIRE LOS ANGELES  213-626-5500/
 TO BUSINESS EDITOR:

  APPLE AND OPEN SOFTWARE FOUNDATION ANNOUNCE LINUX FOR POWER MACINTOSH

     Leading User-Supported Version Of UNIX To Be Available To Power
                             Macintosh Users

     CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Apple Computer, Inc.
 (Nasdaq: AAPL) announced today that it is supporting a project with the
 Open Software Foundation (OSF) to port Linux, a freely distributed
 version of UNIX, to a variety of Power Macintosh products.  This version
 of Linux operates on the OSF Mach microkernel which will be running
 natively on the PowerPC microprocessor.  The announcement was made at
 the Conference on Freely Redistributable Software held in Cambridge.  A
 demo of an early prototype was shown as part of the announcement.
     "This is part of Apple's overall effort to embrace more open
 industry standards, particularly those popular in the Internet
 community," said Ike Nassi, vice president of Apple system software
 technologies.  "This software will be particularly popular with Mac
 users in higher education as well as the scientific research communities
 who have asked for our support of Linux."
     "We are pleased to be working with Apple on this important new port
 of the Mach microkernel, now hosting the popular Linux environment,"
 said Ira Goldstein, executive vice president and chief scientist of the
 Open Software Foundation.  "We have a strong working relationship with
 Apple and this is an important result of our cooperation."
     Linux is a broadly used version of UNIX supported by a wide
 community of programmers.  Linux provides UNIX features such as true
 multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand loading, TCP/IP
 networking and many other advanced features.  Versions of Linux are
 being ported to a wide variety of platforms, including other PowerPC-
 based computers.  This effort marks the first time that Linux will be
 hosted on the Mach microkernel.  (For more information, visit the Linux
 Web site at http://www.linux.org)
     Linux on Power Macintosh will be especially significant in several
 of Apple's key markets, particularly the higher education and scientific
 communities.  With Linux a student will have an extremely low-cost, yet
 high-performance PowerPC-based UNIX system for personal use.  Advanced
 research that requires UNIX applications will now be possible on an
 engineer's personal Macintosh.
     "As a long time Linux user, I am absolutely delighted about the
 announcement of Linux on Power Macintosh," said Professor George
 Blumenthal, chair of the astronomy & astrophysics department at Lick
 Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz.  "Now Macs will have
 a dual personality, in the best sense of the word; on the one hand they
 will allow users to exploit the ever popular and easy to use Macintosh
 software, while on the other hand, they now provide a platform that
 appears virtually identical to the UNIX machines that many of us use
 daily in our work."
     Linux for Power Macintosh adds a new UNIX alternative for PowerPC
 systems to existing products such as AIX from IBM and MachTen from Tenon
 Intersystems.  This gives Macintosh users a range of options from a
 free, user supported UNIX implementation up to commercial, mission
 critical solutions for large enterprises.
     In keeping with the spirit of the Linux community, Apple and OSF
 will make the source code for this Linux port freely available.  This
 includes source code to the Mach microkernel and the required Macintosh
 platform driver support.  Linux is distributed throughout the world over
 the Internet and other means, generally through the GNU General Public
 License, which allows people to use it and change it so long as no
 further restrictions are imposed and that the source code is made
 available.
     Apple and OSF expect that the first port of Linux for Power
 Macintosh will be available this summer.  The system will initially
 support the first generation of Power Macintosh computers based on NuBus
 expansion, and will later be extended to PCI-based Power Macs as well as
 the upcoming PowerPC Platform (formerly CHRP.)  Apple will post
 information regarding this version of Linux on its WWW site
 (http://www.mklinux.apple.com) Apple expects to make the software
 available at this location as well.
     This project is an outcome of Apple's ongoing relationship with OSF
 (http://www.osf.org), which includes consulting work for Copland, the
 next major release of the Mac OS.  The Linux port provides Apple an open
 environment for OS research work, as well as enabling an exciting new
 opportunity for Power Macintosh users.  This port delivers both the Mach
 3.0 microkernel (developed by the OSF Research Institute) and Linux as
 an OS "personality" on Mach.  The OSF microkernel was originally
 developed at Carnegie Mellon as Mach and subsequently enhanced
 extensively by the OSF Research Institute.
     Additional Related World Wide Web Sites:
     --  http://www.tenon.com
     --  http://www.ibm.com




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