Tabby (my fork of Haiku for PowerPC Macintosh) running smooth as silk on my 600mhz iBook G3

Aug 8, 2026 · 6:26 PM UTC

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Follow along in the Haiku forums: discuss.haiku-os.org/t/i-hav…

I have made some progress on the PowerPC port

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Just look at that memory usage lol
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this is amazing omg how does the software suite look as of now?
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Much is working. Got netsurf working. Chasing endianness bugs haha
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Cool. Do you use the original HDD?
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I will be!
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Ok now I'm listening.
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yesssss
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Amazing progress you’ve made. Im gonna need to pull out my eMac G4 to see if it’ll work on it.
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Don’t thank me, thank caffeine!
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hmmmm
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calico/ppc when
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omg that's such a good name
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Not the most impressive framerate, but that's without hardware acceleration, right?
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Framebuffer lol
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I absolutely need to try this. This is so cool!
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i cant wait to try this on my g4 cube when its done, i tried other linux distros like adelie/fenix and none of them worked, they were all crap and didnt boot in some way.
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Looking forward to installing this thing some day.
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tabby kitty!!
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Can’t wait for the video on this!! Keep up the awesome work!
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That's a very good looking G3. All the ones I see in my local market are nasty the keyboard is so yellow you'd say the laptop was a chain smoker.
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powerpc port... i have an idea. i forked your fork lol
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This is fantastic!
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Should I?
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Makes me wish I still had one of my old ppc mac's to try it on..
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The iBook G3 'Snow' is such a classic! Seeing it run a Haiku fork smoothly is incredibly impressive. PowerPC architecture still has so much life in the retro computing community!
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Is this downloadable somewhere as an ISO?
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Will I be able to run it on my summer 2000 iMac?
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