[pwolfe1]

are there any hobby type os's out there that run on macs (powerpc)? you know like syllable or skyos for the x86? I miss playing around with stuff like that on my x86 box.

[Brass]

I think BeOS was the last one that ran on Macs, but you'll need a machine about 10 years old for that. I guess it probably wasn't really a hobby OS either... it did some things better 10 years ago than OS X does now.

[larkost]

Would NetBSD, YellowDog Linux or Darwin count?

[pwolfe1]

unfortunately not. I'm looking for something that will take hours of hacking to get instlled. something I can really pull my hair out on.

[yeslekmc]

Originally posted by pwolfe1:
unfortunately not. I'm looking for something that will take hours of hacking to get instlled. something I can really pull my hair out on.

Have I got the project for you: http://open-beos.sourceforge.net/news.php

Port that to run on modern Apple computers, or make it so that you can run OpenBeOS as a stand-a-lone app (akin to Virtual PC.)

[pwolfe1]

not too shabby. I miss beos too. I'll have a go at it I think.

[johnMG]

> I'll have a go at it I think.

You might post about this in the forums at osnews.com.

There is still a nice community huddled around the smoldering ashes of BeOS. Most folks figure that OpenBeOS (or whatever they are in the process of naming it to) is going to be BeOS's open source replacement (it's MIT-licensed rather than GPL'd (which I still think is rather unfortunate)).

Further, I'm sure there's lots of folks (me included) who are more interested in seeing it on PPC than on x86.

There's even companies out there (Eyetech?) producing PPC motherboards for running GNU/Linux, AmigaOS (?), and other OS'es on. It would be great to see OpenBeOS on these.

Ask around at osnews for more info.

[pwolfe1]

I really wanna try pegasos to be honest with you. I go to osnews all the time, but am not actually a developer myself. I instead just like to muscle OS's onto hardware they were never designed for.