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Computer operating system
MkLinux is a discontinued open-source experimental operating system for PowerPC Macintosh computers. It was launched in 1995 as a collaboration between the Open Software Foundation (OSF) and Apple Computer, as a critical pivot in Apple's technical and social history. MkLinux became Apple's first official free and open-source software community project, and the debut of Linux on the first Power Macintosh. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: MkLinuxA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: MklinuxThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Common coupling as a measure of reuse effort in kernel-based software with case studies on the creation of MkLinux and DarwinCited 5 times
- Go sideways: XNUA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Mach (kernel)A closely related topic
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
📚 Books worth reading
MklinuxRich Morin · 1997
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