Why am I fantasizing about buying an old Mac PPC and installing #OpenBSD on it?
... Probably because despite having a fully modern (x86) computer I still get lags constantly. I thought we were promised newer and faster is better??
I can highly recommend that. Few years ago, I had a PowerMac G4 (if I recall correctly) running OpenBSD. Ditched it in favor of more recent hardware - but with the recent vulns in x86, I really regret that.
@uranther @h3artbl33d PPC (G4 and up) is affected by Spectre too though...
@uranther @h3artbl33d @galaxis
Package selection on #macppc OpenBSD is limited compared with i386 and amd64.
@starbreaker @uranther @galaxis
Yeah it is. But I didn't care, I used it as a more secure fileserver. As to desktop usage, XFCE is supported. Chromium, Firefox seem to be missing/unsupported. One should do a bit of reseach to see whether favorite apps are available on powerpc - before switching arch.
@h3artbl33d @galaxis @starbreaker Chromium/Firefox not supported is a feature.
@uranther @starbreaker @galaxis
Totally agreed! Just like OpenBSD doesn't have a Bluetooth stack - it isn't missing, it's a feature. With good reason!
@h3artbl33d @uranther @galaxis
I just use my iLamp for writing using console apps. It runs joe and wordnet, so that's good enough for me.
@starbreaker @uranther @galaxis
By iLamp, are you referring to one of those older iMacs?
@h3artbl33d @uranther @galaxis Yeah, the G4 with the hemispherical base.
@gme @h3artbl33d @uranther @galaxis
Yup. Got the original keyboard and mouse, too. Only thing that doesn't seem to work is sleep/resume.
