UNIX on Macintosh

• NetBSD/mac68k (MacBSD)
• MacMiNT
• MacMinix
• Linux for PowerMacintosh
• Others

NetBSD/mac68k (MacBSD)

NetBSD/mac68k is a Macintosh port of NetBSD. It replaces MacOS and provides full BSD UNIX features. It runs on some old 68030 Macs like II + PMMU, IIx, IIcx, SE/30, IIci, IIsi, IIvi and IIvx. It doesn't run on 68040 or PowerPC Macs.

• MacBSD Information (in Japanese)
• Installing NetBSD 1.0 on my MacIIvx (in Japanese)
• Installing NetBSD 1.2 on my PowerBook 165c (in Japanese)

• The NetBSD Project
• Allen Briggs (NetBSD/mac68k port master)'s Puma Home and OpenMac
• John Wittkoski's NetBSD/Mac68k ADB Page
• Ken Nakata's NetBSD/mac68k Japanese Documents (in Japanese)
• index to BSD UNIX information (in Japanese)

MacMiNT

MacMiNT is a Macintosh port of MiNT, a multitasking OS for Atari ST. It runs as an application on most Macintosh, and many UNIX programs like tcsh, gcc, elvis, emacs, diff, patch, rcs, etc. work on it. It doesn't provide protected/virtual memory, TCP/IP networking, or X window system.

• Hoshi's MacMiNT Page (in Japanese) and its English version
• MacMiNT files on UNIX USER 95/6 CD (in Japanese)

• Rob Pelkey's The altmacos FAQ

MacMinix

MacMinix is a Macintosh port of MINIX operating system by Andrew Tanenbaum. Latest version of MacMinix is still 1.5.10.7, but it became free... It runs as an application on most Macintosh in 24bit adressing mode.

• Brad's MacMinix Page and its Japanese version
• Minix wo 257bai tukau tame no page (in Japanese)

Linux for PowerMacintosh

Apple and Open Software Foundation announced that they will release PowerMacintosh version of Linux in this summer.

• Linux for Power Macintosh
• R.Kamei's MkLinux Station (in Japanese)

Others

• UNIX and UNIX-wannabes for Macintosh (in Japanese)

• Robert Lentz's Unix and Unix Utilities for the Macintosh
• Green Lion's Unix for Macintosh Info Page
• UNIX FOR MACINTOSH (in Japanese)
• CodeBuilder Academy (in Japanese)