Alan Cox and his kernel hacking brethren are some very serious hackers. Once, at Linuxcare, I had the opportunity to watch Paul Mackerras bring up Linux on a new board. It was pretty amazing, and very much an "I'm not worthy" moment.

For the record, this was written 10 years ago.

Like the no thanks part at the EO article.

To save people from scrolling to the end of the article:

  No Thanks

  Steve Jobs - For refusing to provide any Mac68K documentation

  Steve Jobs - For refusing to let anyone else pass on Mac 68K documentation

  Steve Jobs - For refusing to provide NeXT documentation to the NeXT project

  Steve Jobs - For refusing to let anyone else pass on NeXT cube documentation

  Steve Jobs - For killing the Newton

  Steve Jobs - For refusing to provide any documentation about the Newton to the Linux ARM project

Very interesting read. I had been working on the 68K for a university project, which involved writing my own interrupt-based OS for the platform so this really hit home.

Awaiting the follow up article "Why I ported Linux to the 68k Macintosh"

"Why" would be a more interesting question than "how" ;-)