New OS for PowerPC Macs — #30

Post #30 by narke

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	PowerPC
Post Date	Fri, 13 Nov 2015 - 19:00
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/new-os-for-powerpc-macs.2952/

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Gorgonops said:
I dunno, maybe I'm overestimating how hard it'll be to port things to whatever HelenOS uses for a GUI. Good luck in any case.

Thank you.

gsteemso said:
Uh, as far as I know OS X already does all that. What specifically would be different?

I don't use Mac OS X, its too slow for iMac G3 and doesn't really run on Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh. Linux runs but there is an overhead at least for Xorg.

commodorejohn said:
On the other hand, practically nobody except OS geeks runs hobbyist OSes anyway, so it's not like you're alienating a huge potential userbase by not having a wide variety of preexisting applications, and if you go with Yet Another Freenix you're possibly losing what potential interest you might have had to begin with by having nothing much to set your project apart from any of the others.

I agree.