CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@stepleton That's how you know you're on the bleeding edge, baby

@simon_brooke Yup, that's what the "Mk" stood for. I think it was best-documented option for getting Linux on a Mac at the time, though, so naturally people read it as "MacLinux" but spelled weird.

I came across this last night because something made me curious about the origins and status of GNU Hurd, which—I learned—is also built around a Mach microkernel. And this stirred up some deep memories of doing terrible things to my poor Performa 6115.

Is “pre-Jobs" the right word for the bleak dozen years for Apple between Jobs's departure and return? “Inter-Jobs”?

I just stumbled upon a wonderful archaeo-website, mostly frozen in 1999, and personally meaningful: https://www.mklinux.org

This is the homepage of MkLinux, the long-defunct but historically important effort to port Linux onto PowerPC Macs. A pre-Jobs Apple co-funded this open-source project as an experimental step towards what would eventually become Mac OS X.

It was my first Linux. And I remember in a flash how people would pronounce it "McLinux”, and how I hated that so much, arggh.

I enjoyed this playthrough of a Japanese rock-paper-scissors arcade machine, from the demonstration of how the controls work (you could grip the joystick in three different ways, you see) through the goofy character animation. https://youtu.be/ujZdhrW-Jg8?si=WUasw4wkDu2FQ-md&t=81

@jessamyn Can I just confirm with you that that fish owl actively has a fish in its mouth at time of portrait