Another Webbrowser for Mac OS X 10.5 PPC - BrassMonkey
The Browser is called BrassMonkey and is a fork of legendary Wicknix's SeaLion from Linux. The version we are talking about is from Nov 2025 but was only available for Intel Mac 10.6 and got now his way to 10.5 PPC. It is also based on the modern UXP Engine like Powerfox (Link) is, and has a new updated code for even better compatibility with logging into websites. It also doesn't have a JIT Compiler, so script heavy sites will be very slow. But it is written that people on the MacRumours Forums are currently in the process of porting a JIT to Powerfox. Maybe it will also be available for BrassMonkey.
Currently, there is only the G5 Processor (970) supported.
T2/Linux 26.3 “Desktop Edition”
Embedded Engineering Meets Cross-Architecture Desktop Ambition
T2/Linux has released version 26.3 "Desktop Edition," marking a significant milestone in delivering a modern, cross-architecture desktop experience.
The distribution distinguishes itself by providing a fully reproducible KDE Plasma Wayland session across nine different CPU architectures, including x86, ARM64, PowerPC, and RISC-V. This achievement is built on T2's long-standing foundation as a system development environment engineered for strict cross-compilation, architectural correctness, and deterministic builds.
Strange behavior of my PowerMac G5 - it doesn't boot anymore
Anyone who reads my blog from time to time is familiar with my PowerMac setup. I have two SSDs connected to the internal SATA ports: a 512 GB SATA SSD for Mac OS X 10.5 and a 128 GB SSD for Linux. I also have an NVMe SSD connected to the internal PCI Express x4 port.
New Version of TerminalDrome
After nine long months of laziness and overindulgence, I finally sat down again to work on my beautiful terminal client for Navidrome, TerminalDrome, and implemented a few bug fixes. I also made sure it continues to run everywhere and improved the code quality a bit.
I am proud to announce TerminalDrome 0.2.3 for your pleasure.
Poole / Hyde for Bashblog
So today I thought about my small apfelhammer.de Powermac G5 Weblog and what else can I do to have more fun with it. And than I decided to try out 11ty or another cool shiny Static Site Generator I barely used in for a while and after a little research, I thought Poole and from this Hyde is still in 2026 a great Blog Theme when one only want to blog and share thoughts so I ported the Hyde Theme to my Bashblog Engine and changed nothing.
And this is now what you see - and what you get. Even with Dark Mode and I hope everything is doing quite well. Webmention Support is also in my Bashblog like ISSO Commenting System. This makes my Bashblog a fully featured modern CMS :-)
PowerFox - A modern browser for PowerPC Macs (Mac OS X 10.5)
I just stumbled across a new browser that promises to bring a current version of Firefox to Mac OS X 10.5 PowerPC (and Intel).
Attentive readers of my weblog will know that I have a great passion for trying out modern browsers, usually paired with modern Linux PPC distributions, on my PowerPC 64-Bit PowerMac G5 and integrating them into my daily routine. Of course, this is only possible to a limited extent with a computer from 2005, but it is possible.
Epiphany on Powermac G5 Linux
I just played around a little bit and found out that Gnome Browser Project Epiphany (Gnome Web) is also installable within Arch Linux for PowerPC on my Ppwermac G5. I tried out just to see that it works. But it soon crashes, because OpenGL Rendering is broken. But when you start the Browser in a Terminal with the URL behind, like this:
epiphany https://de.wikipedia.org
Welcome to the new server
This article is mainly because I want to know when the server movement is done. I want to say I am moving with apfelhammer to another server, not the server to another place. I want to leave the old server behind me.
If you can read this post, you are on the new server :-) Otherwise, DNS is cached.
Tags: hello-world, hello world
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