20 years ago Linux still had issues with wifi drivers and power management. You had to be very careful with which network card you had (wifi and ethernet), as o

20 years ago Linux still had issues with wifi drivers and power management. You had to be very careful with which network card you had (wifi and ethernet), as only a few had good in-kernel support. Actually, it was very analogous to Asahi too. At the time, there was Yellow Dog Linux which was a project to make Linux run on (at the time current) PPC macs. I ran it on both Xserves and Powerbooks (although I only remember really being successful with the Xserves). Even then, the restricted amount of hardware present in Apple machines made it much easier to support that small subset in Linux. Funny enough -- Yellow Dog was also where the "yum" program started. None of these things are that new... all of these have happened before and will happen again.