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On January 11th, 2002 haaz (not verified) says:

Heya, this is Jason Haas, LinuxPPC's former unnamed source. (remember me? ;-) For those who didn't know (which'd be most everyone) I was a longtime Mac user before setting up camp in Linux Land. I've since retired from the computer industry, but I'm quite happy to see Unix and the Mac coming together. I am writing a letter to Steve Jobs to congratulate him on doing this, as merging Unix and the Mac was something that I was trying to do with LinuxPPC.

We basically did it, too, with Mac-on-Linux, which is GPL Mac emulation software. (not that we wrote it or anything, but it was a major part of LPPC.) MOL is not nearly as smooth or integrated as Mac OS X is, but darn it, it worked. Assuming you could figure out how to set it up. ;->

My love of Unix began in 1993, which is when I first began working with it. Yeah, it was CLI-based, which was the Mac's long-time Eville Enemy. But that didn't really matter to me... it was so flexible, so powerful, so stable. (I hadn't even begun using X Windows yet. ;-)

I wanted to meld the two somehow. When I met Jeff Carr, the fellow I started LPPC Inc. he told me that this fellow in Australia had ported Linux *natively) to the Power Mac. My eyes widened, I realized that it just might be possible.

If we got 75% of the way to my goal -- melding the Mac OS with Unix -- I'd say we're now 90% or 95% of the way there. OS X is not perfect. Nor is it free, either which I'd really love. But... Jobs & co. have brought us that much closer to my goal. I need to congratulate him on this.

have fun!

-- haaz.

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