Projects

PearPC - PowerPC Emulator

PearPC is a platform-independent PowerPC architecture emulator capable of running most PowerPC operating systems. It includes a Just- In-Time compiler for x86 processors.

SheepShaver

SheepShaver is a MacOS run-time environment for BeOS and Linux that allows you to run classic MacOS applications inside the BeOS/Linux multitasking environment. This means that both BeOS/Linux and MacOS applications can run at the same time (usually in a window on the BeOS/Linux desktop) and data ... [More] can be exchanged between them. If you are using a PowerPC-based system, applications will run at native speed (i.e. with no emulation involved). There is also a built-in PowerPC emulator for non-PowerPC systems. [Less]

CRUX PPC

CRUX PPC is a volunteer driven no-profit project based on the releases of CRUX for x86. Unlike other distributions, the primary goal of CRUX is not to be the most popular (read: biggest number of users) or to put as many features as possible into the system. The idea is rather to build a ... [More] streamlined distribution, targeted at a specific audience which in turn gets a system without compromises. The result may not be the best distribution for everybody, but as mentioned above, that’s not the goal. If you’re part of the target audience however, you might enjoy running CRUX just as much as we do. It’s quite hard to do an objective comparison of linux distributions, since it’s often a matter of taste. We therefore believe that you should compare potential candidates yourself, and choose the on [Less]

Mac-on-Linux

Mac-on-Linux (MOL) provides a virtual machine for running MacOS, MacOSX and Linux (in progress) on your PowerPC machine.

ijailbreak

Thanks for the supporting this project everyone! It's currently inactive however, and no downloads work on current versions of the iPhone's firmware. Learn more at www.ijailbreak.com.

coplandppc

Copland is a new Linux distribution for PowerPC Macintosh computers, aiming to give a free, powerful desktop operating system to Apple's discontinued computers. Copland is currently the only community-based distribution exclusively for PowerPC. The first version 'Community Preview' of ... [More] Copland is out now with a subset of the features that a current/former Mac user would need. Yes, you read correctly!Copland Community Preview is ready for download! http://www.mooload.com/new/file.php?file=/data/200507/1179674629/copland-cp.iso Mirror (probably better): http://tatey.com/files/copland/copland-cp.iso MD5Sum: 98b6bc94b403db493dda7e263b7d7abf copland-cp.iso Torrent: http://www.linuxtracker.org/torrents-details.php?id=4146 See ReleaseNotes for more information on this release. [Less]

New World GNU/Linux

An operating system based on Debian GNU/Linux that is customized and optimized for use on Apple brand computers built on their New World platform. The platform is defined, in part, by the use of Open Firmware version 3.x and PowerPC processors.