Linux on the OSF MK

MkLinux - Linux on the OSF Microkernel

This page is no longer being maintained by The Open Group, since The Open Group Research Institute is no longer active in MkLinux development
This page is being maintained (somewhat sporatically) by the Central Iowa (Model) Railroad who is hosting the ftp server upon which the HPPA distribution currently resides.
General information on mkLinux can be found at the mkLinux Project's home page http://www.mklinux.org.

MkLinux for PowerMacs has a user base of well over a hundred thousands since its launch by Apple at their World Wide Developer's Conference in May 1996.
PowerMac : The DR3 CDROM release is being finalized. The system has come out of the "bleeding edge" and now includes a full RedHat-based installation, including full shared library support, A full JDK with JIT compiler is available and Netscape Communicator has been ported to mklinux/powermac. Support for many new machines is included in DR3.
Massive demand at tradeshows and in the Apple Company Store! eg. MacWorld, Jan '97 - MkLinux DR2 CDROMs sold out within two days at all vendor's stands.
Apple's MkLinux Homepage continues to receive millions of hits.
Support for PCI machines - MkLinux now runs on an even wider range of PowerMacs, including most NuBus, PCI, PCI performa and G3 machines. RealTime and MP support has been developed and is in testing.
MkLinux DR3 is being finalized for PowerMacs and will be available on CDROM or via anonymous FTP.
Regular updates are made available over the internet and announced via the mklinux mailing lists at Apple. Development work continues at Apple.
See also one of our engineer's web pages on MkLinux for PowerMacs.

MkLinux for Intel x86 machines - the TOG MK source tree and MkLinux server source tree build and run on Intel x86 machines and we run MkLinux on Intel machines here. We aren't making binary distributions available, the mklinux sources (available at Apple or from the HP distributions) can be used to generate the Intel binaries.

Hewlett Packard has provided support for a port of MkLinux to the HP PA-RISC platform.

A snapshot of MkLinux for HP PA-RISC machines is now available for download by ftp. The MkLinux for PA-RISC distribution provides a bootable system with X11R6, the sources for the Open Group Research Institute Microkernel and the Linux server, together with the installation notes.
Additional information can be found on the MkLinux for PA-RISC Web page.

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Last modified : Fri Oct 15 15:32:49 CDT 1999 by [email protected]
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