9. Other Mac OSes & Compatibility


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Again, more information will be filled in here as it becomes available.

9.1 MachTen

[coming]

9.2 MacLinux

Recently, Apple has endorsed a port of Linux to the PowerPC Macs. Check it out at: http://www.mklinux.apple.com/

In addition, there is an ongoing MacLinux/68k effort. It seems to be coming along rather slowly, though. For more information, see:

http://maclinux.ml.org/

9.3 MacMiNT

There is no current compatibility with MacMiNT.

I believe MacMiNT can be found on ftp://atari.archive.umich.edu

9.4 MacMach

Unfortunately, MacMach died out years ago. However, the PowerMac Linux project is built on a version of the Mach microkernel. Check out OSF's Linux on the OSF Microkernel page.

9.5 A/UX

You can mount A/UX filesystems read-only. There may be binary compatibility with A/UX binaries in the future (don't hold your breath, though).

9.6 MacOS

You can use Lawrence Kesteloot's hfs tool to access MacOS filesystems as read-only. Use this tool to browse the filesystem and copy files to a NetBSD/mac68k partition. Someday we hope to run MacOS as a process on top of NetBSD/mac68k.

In addition to hfs there are the hfsutils collection of utilities for accessing the Mac HFS from within MacBSD.


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