Instead this is delegated to a PowerPC implementation of Mach 3.O microkernel. While there's a slight performance penalty in implementing Linux or any other OS in this way, it results in software which is easier to maintain and port to yet more platforms. MkLinux is a work in progress. Some of these deficiencies may be addressed by the time you read this, so be sure to check the project status at the MkLinux Web site . It currently runs on the IBM 830 and the Motorola PowerStack.
Work is underway for other architectures , too.
It's not clear if Linux will ever receive wide acceptance in our schools, but pure economics makes it very hard to ignore. In the meantime, wherever there's hardware available to run it and someone ready to administer it, you can expect to see Linux hosting the occasional web server, file server, print server, or mail server. You might also see it make an appearance in the science classroom because of the large body of scientific software that has been written for Unix, some of which has already been ported to Linux . Paul Nelson has started a Web page dedicated to Linux in the schools .