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Completely different kernel principles, designs and architectures. Regular Linux distributions would have to rewrite the kernel, hope it's accepted upstream, f

Completely different kernel principles, designs and architectures. Regular Linux distributions would have to rewrite the kernel, hope it's accepted upstream, fork or patch-and-pray. I'm sure certain concepts were borrowed from Mach and implemented in Linux and the other way around. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_(kernel)#Mach_concepts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_(kernel)#Mach_concepts > And if it adds so much value, It isn't that simple. There are tradeoffs made with every kernel design decision.

0x0 11y ago
What I still don't understand is, for a project like MkLinux to exist, they must have looked at Linux and decided that a (non-mk-)linux kernel was lacking something?
- wmf 11y ago
  They probably thought that porting Linux to run on Mach and porting Mach to PowerPC was less work than porting Linux to PowerPC. In retrospect, this was not true.
  - riffraff 11y ago
    I don't think that would be true, I recall yellowdog linux was running on macs at the same time.