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New OS for PowerPC Macs

Just wondering if your OS is optimised for the PPC architecture, or is it simply an OS with a lighter footprint so that it would run smoothly?
 
For the moment there aren't optimizations, but yes I focus on lighter footprint.
 
lowendlinux said:
Have you talked to Mr. Richter about using his name for your kernel?
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If you talk about Yggdrasil Linux, it's a discontinued Linux distribution so there can't confusion between a kernel and a distribution name.
 
narke said:
If you talk about Yggdrasil Linux, it's a discontinued Linux distribution so there can't confusion between a kernel and a distribution name.
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It's called courtesy you're using his name in an open source project you might want to ask.
 
I don't even know where to join him, we are talking about a Linux distro which disappeared about 15 years ago.
 
Good luck with the project, I'm sure we'd be interested.

It's too bad that kickstarter is such a haven for scammers.
 
His company also produced but that are still being published, you're not wrong legally for using the name but it's courtesy in the FOSS community. You are creating a BSD licensed open source project and named it's kernel after the first Linux distribution, people are going to notice.
 
lowendlinux said:
His company also produced but that are still being published, you're not wrong legally for using the name but it's courtesy in the FOSS community. You are creating a BSD licensed open source project and named it's kernel after the first Linux distribution, people are going to notice.
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I managed to find Mr. Richter and sent him an e-mail to make everything clear.
 
bunnspecial said:
Needing $38K to develop something that's FOSS seems a bit contrary to principle to me...
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There is no contradiction just a matter of opinion, I don't claim $38K to work on it in my spare time but full-time, of course you can refuse.
 
bunnspecial said:
Needing $38K to develop something that's FOSS seems a bit contrary to principle to me...
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How is this contrary to FOSS principles?

Do you expect FOSS developers to only work for free? Many companies are paying their employees to write FOSS code, and many commercial products are based on FOSS code.

lowendlinux said:
Have you talked to Mr. Richter about using his name for your kernel?
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It's not really Mr. Richters name, it's from Norse mythology, just like the name of the OS, Einherjar.

I don't think there's any real possibility of confusion between a very old GNU/Linux distro and this project.
 
It looks like a cool project and I wish you the best of luck. That said, I'm not confident people will support your nearly $40,000 goal. While I'd love to see something more capable running on OS9, it's a niche user base aka little demand, there's no money creating this OS, and there's no garantee the final product will be anything good, right? Again, it would be cool to see this project come to fruition, but I think it's one of those projects that has to be created and sold, rather than sold then created. But did we say this is open source?

$40,000 in the big scheme of things isn't much money. What is that a year of dovoted work? I'd be surprised if you could build a usable OS with that little time (time = money). If you raised the full amount what is your time table to finish?
 
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narke said:
Hi,

I'm making a new operating system for PowerPC Macs, it will be a desktop-based OS adapted to the limitations of RAM and CPU speed of PowerPC Macs.
If you want additional information feel free to ask me questions.

Here is a link to the kickstarter campaign:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1691639619/einherjar-operating-system-for-powerpc-macs

And github: https://github.com/narke/Einherjar
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Just my two sense, any new OS for the PowerPC platform is welcome. But if you have the skills to do this, I would seriously recommend trying to get the OS to be able to emulate and run basic x86 apps designed for Windows. The G5 and faster G4 Mac's should run basic x86 programs alright. You could take some ques from React OS probably. It's a completely new OS (in a sense) thats like Linux and Windows, and can run most Windows software. It would breathe a lot of new life into faster PowerMacs. It'd also help other users who don't know much about computers if you made it resemble OS X or Windows in some way. React OS does that by looking identical to Windows 2000.
 
WalnutSpice said:
You could take some ques from React OS probably. It's a completely new OS (in a sense) thats like Linux and Windows, and can run most Windows software. It would breathe a lot of new life into faster PowerMacs. It'd also help other users who don't know much about computers if you made it resemble OS X or Windows in some way. React OS does that by looking identical to Windows 2000.
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It looks like someone else had the idea of porting ReactOS to the PPC, however it seems that no progress has been made beyond outlining the concept. https://www.reactos.org/wiki/PowerPC
 
Hack5190 said:
It looks like someone else had the idea of porting ReactOS to the PPC, however it seems that no progress has been made beyond outlining the concept. https://www.reactos.org/wiki/PowerPC
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Is anyone surprised? ReactOS has been worked on for years to relatively little effect. It is still very unstable and will only run certain key Windows programs of a certain vintage. It is in no way a Windows replacement - not even of NT 4.0. Haiku has taken a decade to get somewhere close to where BeOS 5 was way back when. OS/4 still cannot boot its kernel without locking up.

Writing an OS from scratch is anything but a trivial undertaking and it will be years before there is anything worth looking at, if ever.
 
weckart said:
Writing an OS from scratch is anything but a trivial undertaking and it will be years before there is anything worth looking at, if ever.
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What if you raise $38,049? :D Seriously, your correct that it is a major undertaking and exactly why most efforts at such a task have never been completed.
 
It's understandable to be worried about the schedule available on kickstarter, but for example the TCP/IP stack would be a port of lwIP and not a complete implementation of all OSI layers. Only lightweight applications will be ported, the most important ones are cited on the site and while not being Linus Torvalds I have past experiences on kernel land development. Yes it will be a challenging accomplishment and I want to push my limits.
Maybe Haiku and ReactOS aren't in a usable state because no one is involved in full-time development of these systems, I don't know what happens inside those projects.
 
FYI I contacted Mr. Richter and he is OK to use Yggdrasil as a name for a kernel.
 
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