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   sizeofcat to KotAnon   
   Re: Alternative OS Discussion   
   11 Oct 25 04:10:01   
   
   From: sizeofcat@riseup.net   
      
   On 2025-10-11 03:29:17 +0300, KotAnon  said:   
      
   > sizeofcat  writes:   
   >   
   >> On 2025-10-06 06:11:24 +0300, auanon  said:   
   >>   
   >>> On Sun, 05 Oct 2025 20:29:35 -0400, Slimes wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> The best alternative operating systems are old ones that no one uses   
   >>>> anymore.   
   >>>> SunOS, Solaris, Win 311, BeOS / Haiku, AmigaOS, Mac OS (Classic),   
   >>>> DOS, IRIX, VMS are but a few examples. Many 8 bit computers can access   
   >>>> the internet now too using clever hardware devices.   
   >>>> ...   
   >>> Does anyone here have any ancient hardware? It would be fun to try   
   >>> and get   
   >>> it up and posting news...   
   >>   
   >> I'm "daily driving" an iMac G5 running OS X 10.5 Leopard, everything   
   >> works just fine.   
   >   
   > Man, G5's and Leopard are comfy as fuck, I still miss my Power Mac G5 It   
   > was great at burning PS1 and PS2 disks and doing some video edition.   
   > Also I don't know if its the nostalgia googles but I miss XCode not   
   > working like shit.   
      
   I've been playing with Xcode and the iPhone SDK a bit and yeah, it   
   definitely not working like shit, unlike modern Xcode. And it's neither   
   using bazzilion jiggamiggabytes of RAM either.   
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