A terminal-based music client for Navidrome (and other Subsonic-compatible servers), written in Rust.
Features
What’s new in 0.6.0
🔀 Shuffle Mode — press Shift+S while in any song list (album, playlist, or Jukebox queue) to instantly shuffle and restart playback. The currently playing song panel and progress bar turn magenta so you always know shuffle is active.
What was new in 0.5.x
🎉 Party / Jukebox Mode (Shift+J) — streams your entire library in random order. Songs are fetched from the server in batches in the background, so even a library with tens of thousands of tracks works without loading everything into memory at once.
Hi, now that I’ve spent a lot of time working on my Linux
PC build — you can read about it here.
I’ve turned my attention back to my TerminalDrome software.
The biggest change is the possibility to switch via TAB Key to your playlists.
As you know, I’m a big fan of self-hosting, which is why I host my own music,
among other things. And TerminalDrome is the little Navidrome terminal player.
I’m happy to announce that TerminalDrome has been officially added to
the crates.io repository. This means you can now install
and use TerminalDrome on your system with a simple
cargo install terminaldrome
command. I’ve also added the ability to use playlists in TerminalDrome,
which wasn’t available before. You can use the TAB key to switch the left
pane to the playlists. In the middle, you’ll see information about the
playlist, and on the right, the songs it contains.
Otherwise, there were many bug fixes: one was a buffer overflow at the end
of a song, which caused the runtime to be recalculated and resulted in a
crash. Another was a large number of warnings, which I’ve resolved.
The Browser is called BrassMonkey and is a fork of legendary Wicknix’sSeaLion 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.
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.
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.
The 128 GB SSD for Linux runs Debian 12 SID, and its primary function is to
boot the actual Linux distribution from the NVMe SSD. The PowerMac,
specifically the Open Firmware, doesn’t have drivers for NVMe, and neither
does Mac OS X. Therefore, it boots Grub from the internal SSD to load the
correct kernel and partition from the NVMe SSD.
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.
What has changed in Version 0.2.3?
0.2.3 – Stability & Cross-Architecture Improvements, not visibile.
Fixed
Fixed duplicate selection decrement in navigation logic (on_up)
Fixed potential division-by-zero in progress bar calculation
Hardened time position handling against invalid/NaN values
Improved atomic memory ordering for weak memory architectures (ARM, PPC64)
Prevented uncontrolled async task spawning during album rendering
Improved mpv IPC reconnect handling
Improved temporary directory handling for macOS and Linux
Improved
Switched to single-thread Tokio runtime for better determinism
Sotoday 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.
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.
I just played around a little bit and found out that GnomeBrowser ProjectEpiphany (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
than it starts and renders the website and it is pretty usable. Here is a
small screenshot I just took:
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.
My Powermac was a Powerbeast back in the days, but for gaming, Macs are always and forever the wrong choice,
til today. But with the stock NVIDIA GeForce 6600 LE I am able to play Doom 3 (one of
my favourite Ego-Shooters of all time) on low settings or Quake III Arena pretty good and
pretty fast.
And I was curious if I can install dhewm3 on PowerPC Linux to play Doom 3 with
this modern implementation for the old game. But with the one from the package manager, there
were no luck. It had a problem with the menue, I think with the Fond and this is a known problem
with other than x86 builds. It soon after start crashed. So I deviced to built in from scratch
and that worked. After some tweaks I am able to start Doom3, but it doesn’t work as expected.
The graphic is completely broken and I think it has something to do with Mesa and 3D and Drivers
and so on.
Master hacker René Rebe, known to everyone for T2/SDE Linux, writes
in a recent article
about the media’s proclamation of the end of
32-bit Firefox—and verifies this claim on his own system.
Of course, the world isn’t black and white, and René describes how, although…
while Mozilla has ended official 32-bit Linux builds for the upstream
binary release, but the underlying source code remains portable.
Downstream projects such as T2 SDE Linux, which pride themselves
on building Firefox natively for every architecture from i686
and PowerPC G5 to MIPS and RISC-V, already have fresh 32-bit
builds running. In fact, the broader ecosystem of independent
distributions continues to demonstrate that so-called “obsolete”
architectures can live long, productive lives when supported by
efficient cross-compilation frameworks.
Long time ago I found out that someone started a project for Classic Thunderbird,
because they were not really happy about the newly established way it goes from then. And on
PowerPC based Linux, actual Thunderbird will not build because
Warnung: Kann "libicui18n.so=74-64" nicht auflösen (eine Abhängigkeit von "thunderbird")
libiciu cannot be built. There are some alternatives like Claws-Mail but this is really old,
feels really old. It works but it is not in the actual repo of Power ARCH but you can compile
it easy by yourself. Anyways. Because Epyrus is based on older classic Thunderbird, there
is a change I can compile it on actual Arch with Python 2.7. I give it a try.
Dear friends of PowerPC Linux, Unix and especially the Powermac G5, I’ve not written since
quite a time. The reason was my other Webproject [¹] which I managed to melt with another Website
and beside that, move it into a Docker Container and run it and adopt everything and so on and
on and on… you know - from stick to wood like someone says. :-)
But what I want to say is that I am using Arch POWER ppc64 Linux now for quite some time
every day and while I am listening to Navidrome streamed MP3 [²] in my TerminalDrome Client
or do some Webstuff with Firefox or sending Mails via Calws-Mail, I am absolutely happy and
it never crashed or something like that. It works so well.
As I wrote yesterday, the new ArchPOWERLinux for PowerPC 64 works like charme
and with big thanks to (Kernel/Linux)-Hacker René Rebe, Firefox is working on
POWER-Architecture (and much more) again after years. So you can use a modern
Browser if you want.
But in the last post, I only described how you get your base system up and running
while booting from usb pen drive. But you want more :-) A GUI I bet. So if you
have a running instance, or when you are still in the live environment of the
booted usb pen drive, you can chroot into the freshly installed ARCH Linux and
can perfom different tasks. E.g. install a GUI. While the Powermac is not the
fastest machine in 2025 anymore and a lot of packages are not available for ppc64,
XFCe is a good idea for a good looking and modern desktop environment. My mac
has the stock nVidia Geforce 6600GS graphicsboard so we need the driver for
this to have 2d-acceleration. This is important, otherwise the gui is not
useful because it is too slow.
My bigfat Powermac G5 Workstation running ArchPOWER 64 while compiling Claws-Mail under XCFE and running TerminalDrome
Because of a friendly comment by Powerlinux user Matias, I am willing to try
out ArchPOWER Linux for PPC (Link) again. ArchPOWER is an unofficial Port of ARCH Linux
for the PowerPC Architecture: It supports: powerpc64le (>=POWER8), powerpc (>=604),
powerpc64 (>=POWER4+/G5 & PS3) and espresso (WiiU SMP).
I told you the other day that my PowermacG5 owns an NVMe-SSD-Adapter as a
PCI-Express Card with a 1 TB NVME-SSD. That runs great, here is the Benchmark:
[arch@ARCHLINUX ~]$ sudo pacman -S hdparm
Abhängigkeiten werden aufgelöst …
Nach in Konflikt stehenden Paketen wird gesucht …
Pakete (1) hdparm-9.65-2
Gesamtgröße des Downloads: 0,10 MiB
Gesamtgröße der installierten Pakete: 0,24 MiB
:: Installation fortsetzen? [J/n]
:: Pakete werden empfangen …
hdparm-9.65-2-po... 101,0 KiB 394 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
(1/1) Schlüssel im Schlüsselbund werden geprüft [######################] 100%
(1/1) Paket-Integrität wird überprüft [######################] 100%
(1/1) Paket-Dateien werden geladen [######################] 100%
(1/1) Auf Dateikonflikte wird geprüft [######################] 100%
(1/1) Verfügbarer Festplattenspeicher wird erm... [######################] 100%
:: Paketänderungen werden verarbeitet …
(1/1) Installiert wird hdparm [######################] 100%
:: Post-transaction-Hooks werden gestartet …
(1/1) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
[arch@ARCHLINUX ~]$ sudo hdparm -Tt /dev/nvme0n1
/dev/nvme0n1:
Timing cached reads: 2258 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1129.63 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 1384 MB in 3.00 seconds = 461.12 MB/sec
Yes, 1129 MB/Sec, bäm!, this is what PCIE 1.0 4.0 Slot can do. :-) Nicenstein, in a 2005 Computer.
Hello and good morning, I’m back at my Powermac G5, playing around a bit with T2/Linux (all articles).
I recently reported that a current version of Firefoxis capable of running on PPC64, making this distro the only one that allows this. Everyone else is having major problems with Firefox right now. Although I assume René, the maintainer of T2, is sending his patches upstream. He does a lot for the community.
So, this post is an update to my “weblog engine” Bashblog. This is a Shellscript
wich renders my weblog in static html files, like all the other static website
generators like Jekyll or Pelikan or you name it do. But there is a difference:
for bb.sh you only need the standard linux tools like awk, sed etc. pp., and
this works with a nice css file out of the box really good.
So, the other day I installed a media server to stream my long lost MP3-Archive
like it’s Spotfiy, over the air to my Smartphone while I wear Headphones etc. pp
and therefore I tested a lot of apps. I ran into the issue that macOS 15 does not
let you device to open an unverified app like on the macOS releases before, it is a way
harder. But the easiest solution I found is this, type in the terminal:
As I mentioned on my several domains before, I am a great fan of the so called
indieweb were you link each other in mentions and talk about topics and you do
this on your domain or your website, not on social media pots were your data and
your stories and thoughts are trapped. Trapped at them.
So I configured my domain apfelhammer.de as part of the indieweb. I think I can
get webmentions and I am part of the indiewebring.
Since I installed an RSS-Reader like its 2007, I read my friends again. That’s a
thing I am really thankful for. And there, over at pfotenhauers frittiert.es,
I read a blogpost about App Defaults. It’s about People who show other people
what they are using for tools ’n apps on a daily base for working and living and in private.
I will do that, too.
App Defaults
Defaults
Mail Client: mutt, Mail.app, Thunderbird
Mail Server: self hosted, Linux
Notes: Notizen.App
To-Do: “Hey Siri, erinnere mich an…”
iPhone Photo Shooting: Camera.app
Photo Management: Apple Photos
Calendar: Google Calendar via Calendar.app
Cloud File Storage: iCloud, (in reality I don’t like clouds)
RSS service: NetNewsWire on iCloud :-)
RSS client: NetNewsWire on iOS and macOS, SeaLion on Powermac G5
Contacts: Kontakte.App
Browser: Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Edge,
Chat: WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Discord, irssi
Bookmarks: I don’t use Bookmarks anymore
Read It Later: I don’t use those kind of tools
Word Processing: Word, Pages, Markdown Formatting Textfiles
I had problems typing the backslash “" and bar “|” on my iMac
keyboard when in the OpenFirmware user interface.
A picture of my iMac G3 while in Open Firmware
The “" key on US iMac keyboards seems to produce keycode 57 (in X11).
There is no key on the German keyboard that produces keycode 57.
There is one with keycode 58, the “#” key.
Due to the lack of a good graphical email client1 for my Arch POWER Linux
Distro (Arch Linux for PowerPC), I tried several things and ended up with claws-mail. But it is not
installable or not existing in the repos of pacman for powerpc. So I dcided
to compile it by myself.
Claws-Mail 4.3.1 just compiled successfully on my Powermac G5.
As you all know, I’m a big fan of vintage computers. In addition to an iMac G3, a C64, and an Amiga 500/1200, I also run an MS-DOS PC with Windows 3.11 and networking capabilities. To enable file sharing, I have a small Samba 1 server running.
So it’s all the more exciting to see that the fantastic FreeDOS project has released a new version. FreeDOS 1.4 is here.
The other day I stumbled across Fienix Linux. It is a Distribution maintained by one man,
Casey Cullen. It is based on debian, but with focus on
powerpc first. I just tried to install it on my Powermac G5. And it works great!
Fienix Linux 6.0.1 on my Powermac G5, on real Hardware.
I find it quite sad because I only recently got to know Fienix Linux,
even though it has been around for a long time. And I think it’s absolutely
great because it works better than any other Linux on the Powermac G5
that I’ve tried so far:
Graphics acceleration
modern web browser
But unfortunately the package sources are dead, this Linux is based on Debian
SID and uses APT. The Fienix source server is unreachable and there is no
alternative.
Since I own the Powermac G5 and play around with it, I want to install a modern
Browser and therefor, I want to run Firefox on it. But it is not possible. I tried
different Linux Distros like Debian 12 PPC64, T2/Linux by Rene Rebe and even
some special builts of ARCH for PPC64 - but I had no luck. No one had luck and
even the Debian Mailinglist said it is not possible to built Firefox for PPC64
at this time. I even wrote about that.
In a nice comment from Matias, he told me he is using ArchPOWER Linux, an unofficial
Build of Arch Linux for PowerPC, PPC64, PPC and PPCle for the Power8 Architecture
etc. pp.; If I remember correctly, I stumbled across this Linux Distro while I
researched for the best Linux for my Powermac G5, but maybe because I was at
the beginning of my Linux journey on these machines, I found it to heavy or
something else told me not to try. I don’t know but it is not important anymore,
because I installed ArchPOWER Linux current on my NVMe-SSD in the Powermac,
multi-booting with T2 Linux, Debian 12 SID, Adelie Linux and Fienix Linux. :-)
Man, I am a little bit frustrated right now. Everytime a new release of
T2/Linux
is going online, I am really happy to try it out on my Powermac G5. I download
it and dd it to a USB Stick (here
I explain how to boot a PPC Mac from USB) and than boot the Powermac via OpenFirmware
from that USB Stick and everything works like charme. Like I exspect it.
I am back - because my internet provider (Pÿur) cut off my home server
connection (it is this ipv4 ipv6 thing) from one day to another without getting me
informed, my websites were all down. So I moved to another server but I
find it really overbloated to host such a small bunch of html websites on a
big hoster.
Now, I am back but ISSO is not working and maybe other things are also broken.
As you know my Setup, I will shortly explain again. In my Powermac G5 there is
an SATA-SSD as a replacement for the old spinning Apple HDD. On this SSD I
installed Mac OX 10.5 and also Debian SID for PPC, to get the Partition-Scheme
and GRUB installed.
I also built in a NVMe-SSD with 1 TB because the Powermac11,2 has PCI-Express
Slots like it is standard nowadays. The OpenFirmware in the Powermac doesn’t
know what an NVMe-SSD is and therefore can’t recognize it or boot it. Also
Mac OS X 10.5 doesn’t see the device. The technic is too young and there are
no drivers, that is the reason for that.
There are many different mentions in the web. Some say it is impossible to boot
Powermacs from USB, others says: only PowermacG5 from 7,3 Revision are able to
boot from USB and the third party says: every Powermac is bootable.
And because I own this late and great Powermac G5 11,2 and I don’t want to
always burn a CD/DVD everytime I try a new Linux or something else out, I
invesitagted a little bit further: the third statement is correct: every Powermac
can boot from USB.
… interesting topics in the internet are videos that should be blog posts.
I hate it so much.
It rises up that every time when I look through the net for a specific topic, I get a
YouTube Video instead of a blog post. I DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE doing videos
off of clearly to describe topics - when it is better for the audicence and every other
people when they write about.
Comments belongs to the website. So I newly established this weblog and I am a great fan of comments.
Because were is the place to talk about a topic? Directly under the topic,
right. I now publish with a simple Shell-Script (Bashblog) and there is
no commenting system built in, the author helped out with integrating
Disqus, which is known for being a wideley used commenting hoster.
And there is the point to talk: I think comments belong to the commenters
and to the website were the comments are said, but definitely comments are
no big data and therefore should not be outsourced to a third-party company
like disqus is.
I lastly saw this video about a company who invents Mini-ITX
Cases for PCs, especially for Gaming PCs. And I saw this great case 1.
The Case is so neat and everything fits so well. The case is small and can
stand up to not use too much space on the Desk which I really like. It reminds
me on my Mac Pro 6,1 - also known as Trashcan - which was an really
great mini-ITX Computer before it was cool. I would still use one but
you can’t upgrade and therefore it is way much powerconsumption (compared to actual computers)
for no reason so an actual Mac Mini M4 is all you need
for everyday computing.
As you can see in the screenshot, I am visiting both my weblog and amazon.de
Websites with the Powermac G5 2,0 GHz. This is only possible because there
is a relative modern webbrowser (2022) by user wicknix, built upon TenFourFox.
InterWebPPC: Mozilla for Power Macintosh
So with this webbrowser the old 20 years old Powermac is able to visit modern
websites like Amazon. No, I dont like amazon, but is is an example. Youtube
also works, but loads a lot longer.
As you know, this weblog is about my 2005 Powermac G5 and how to use it in 2024
soon 2025 as a normal computing device. I installed different Linux Distros
on an 1 TB NVMe Device while computing with 12 GB-Ram.
And today reached me the information that famous René Rebe did released
T2/Linux 12.2024 [1]. They are pleased to announce T2 24.12 as a major update
with a total of 37 pre-compiled base install ISOs for various Glibc, Musl
and uClibc combinations are available for 25 CPU ISAs:
Since I recently discovered how relaxing programming can be, I’ve been tinkering with my Navidrome-compatible terminal client called TerminalDrome almost every day.
I’ve now integrated a new feature, which I’ve moved to Main:
A simple search function:
Press slash / and the search will open.
Enter the search term, press Enter, and you’ll see the search results in the right panel.
It’s neither alphabetically sorted nor otherwise organized.
Additionally, there’s a feature in the leftmost panel where you can jump directly to the beginning of the respective artist by pressing a letter of your choice. So if I press D, I’ll land on D.A.F., or Q on Queens Of The Stone Age—you get it?
With a total of 17 pre-compiled base install ISOs for various Glibc, Musl and uClibc combinations are available for 12 CPU ISAs: Alpha, ARM(64), HPPA64, IA64, MIPS64, PowerPC(64), RISCV64, SPARC64, i586, x86-64. On most architectures the release still boots with as little as 512MB of RAM or even less, and ISO downloads are less than 2GB for base Wayland desktop with Firefox.
The rest of the text file is a Markdown blog post. The process will continue
as soon as you exit your editor. It works like charme, like a big software
solution but it is only shell scritpting with standard unix tools. amazing!
There are quite a few Powermac Enthusiast around the world, like I am. They are
using the Powermac G5 for day-to-day work and I think this is pretty cool,
even when I think we need to go green as fast as possible in the reason of
power consumption, I will give it a try. My G5 doesnt need more than 250 Watts
even with the Cinema HD 23" Display in use.
So yesterday was the release ouf 24.12 T2/Linux and the maintainer, creator
and mastermind behind, René Rebe, were at a lifestream on youtube and twitch.
So I played around with T2 on my Powermac G5 and listened to the stream and
had a small chat with him. The most important part is an actual browser on
that machine so I asked for the actual status of firefox.
René replied that the problems with big endian still exist and occours so there is no
Firefox for Big Endian Machines at the moment. Firefox builts well on all little endian
processors, but not on the big ones. There is no better answer at this time,
but I hope he can do something when he have the time. Because to make that
clear: there is not a big audience who is working on big endian ppc64 processors
like my 970MP is in the world and I believe he get’s not enough feedback and
attention for his work for the open source community. But this is another part.
I own this late and great Powermac11,2Powermac G5 Dual Core 2,0 GHz and
I love this machine for being what it is: a great retrobattle station
and also a sexy workstation. It is so clean, no cables,
everything can be accessed easily.
Even the PowerPC 970MP 1 Processors are
known for getting really hot, the machine fans are not loud even under
heavy load while compiling latest e.g. Firefox Version 133 for PPC64.
And this is the moment were I want to setup something to crosscompile.
Because I don’t want to run the Powermac all day and all night with 78 degree
Celcius all the time while compiling and I don’t want to consump so much
electrical energy.
So yesterday I found out that with the PPC64 Version Firefox is working and this
is a dealbreaker, a gamechanger. Because of a modern Browser, you can use this
old computer nearly productive. I can webmail (even Googlemail), I can spotify,
I can Youtube. I can do a lot of modern things only because the browser is
working.
My Powermac G5 Desktop with XFCE 4 and some Terminal Windows.
Master-Hacker René Rebe has published his newest version of T2/Linux, an SDE
Linux with the most CPU Architechture support in the world. It is also
the most active and most actual Linux Distro as you can see on distro watch
and other sites.
I installed this new version on my Powermac G5 Workstation and it works like
charme.
Here you can find the direct download for ppc, ppc64 or ppc64/32*
I installed the 64/32 Bit Variante, because it is optimized for the 970 Processor
which works in the Powermac G5.
I am proud to announce the release of TerminalDrome 0.2.0 as a feature-rich
stable version to the public. It is still alpha but it works on a daily basis
here on my Powermac G5 or the Mac Mini M4.
TerminalDrome Splash Screen
There are compiled binaries available for arm64, ppc64 and armhf. But TerminalDrome
will build on every Linux with Rust and Cargo.
Because there’s already a Terminal Navidrome client called NaviTerm, and I don’t really like my name TermNavi, I decided to rename my software TerminalDrome. Of course, that sounds completely stupid, but at least it’s better than a copy.
So the other day I tried to connect to my Navidrome MP3 Streaming Server,
I call it “Spotify at Home”, via Webinterface to listen to some music, but
there were no way to do this. The Webbrowsers available are too old. Sad.
So I decided to programm a really small Navidrome Terminal Client called
TermNavi (yes I know… need better name) to listen to my MP3. And what shall
I say? The first implementation is ready. I tested and successfully compiled
on aarch64 (my MacMini M4) and the legendary Powermac G5 with ARCH Linux or
Debian Sid ppc64.
As I wrote in a few
articles before, I am a big fan of Fienix Linux because it works
absolutely amazing on my Powermac G5, it can even render
complex and modern Websites like my other Weblog (Ghost CMS) and all the big
and modern new Websites.
However, as I continued to use Fienix, I found out that I couldn’t
install any updates or other software packages. After some research,
I discovered that the Fienix APT Repowas down. I asked at the corresponding
youtube channel and even at the Website, but there was no answer.
There is always the discussion around if the Powermacs are able to boot from USB or
not and I can say: every Powermac G5 is able to boot from USB Thumbdrive. So it
is quite easy to dd an ISO of Linux or Leopard to an USB-Drive and boot-up the
Powermac G5 with it. But also older Macs. Older Roms. Older Edlers.
Accessing Open Firmware
Method I: At the chime, hold down the Option key. The Boot Picker comes up. Press Control + Z to switch to Open Firmware.
Method II: At the chime, hold down Command + Option + O + F until you’ve arrived at the Open Firmware prompt.
I just finished the work on TerminalDrome 0.2.2 and I am really proud of it,
because I don’t know nothing about Rust programming language but the Terminal NaviDrome Client is
running very well :-)
TerminalDrome started, Cover Art, no artist or album chosen
Whats is new?
Implemented cover art: terminaldrome is downloading the cover art of the album
if available and convert it to ASCII :-)
Album Scrolling: while in album pane, there were no scrolling implemented and
when there were more than 5 albums, you would not see them.
I plugged in that great NVMe SSD into my Powermac G5 because he supports PCI-Express (Version 1.0) and
there is a 4x Speed Port that is unused (the x16 is for the Graphicscard) and now I ran a 1 TB NVMe-SSD
in this Powermac and it is doing great. Because due the lack of drivers, Open Firmware is unable to
boot from thos NVMe-SSDs, he is able to boot from a normal 2,5" SSD on the SATA-Port. So I installed the
/boot/grub parts to that SSD and therefor it loads the Operating System from the NVMe :-) This is
working quite well and I run
Nivis-specific options are placed below [extra] in the site’s config.toml. Zola’s own settings, including feeds, taxonomies, and Markdown highlighting, stay at the top level.
Search
AIGC disclosure: This section was written with AI assistance and checked against Zola’s documentation and local builds.
The example site’s config.toml exposes Zola’s native build_search_index switch, disabled by default. Enabling it adds a search button after the back button in the upper-right toolbar; the homepage has a standalone search button. The input expands horizontally and pushes the back button to the left, while results appear beneath it. On narrow screens the input uses a second toolbar row so every button remains accessible. CSS controls layout and transitions, including reduced-motion support. The following settings generate JSON containing titles, descriptions, and untruncated body text:
AIGC disclosure: The Nivis guides in this example site were drafted in part with AIGC assistance and checked against the theme source and a local Zola build.
Requirements
Nivis requires Zola 0.23.4 or later. Check the installed version before starting:
zola --version
Git is needed for the recommended submodule installation. Python 3 is only needed for the optional math-processing tools.
Installation
From the root of an existing Zola site, add Nivis below themes/:
AIGC disclosure: This Markdown example was generated with Gemini 3 and reviewed as part of the Nivis documentation.
Text Basics
You can make text bold or italic. You can also use strikethrough or highlight inline code variables.
Headings
Acknowledge that we recommend using h1 (in markdown, single #) only for the title (that is, the title attribute in front matter). The titles in post content should start with h2.
h3
h4
h5 and h6 are not recommended to use. (Actually I didn’t implement a style for them lol) Try use lists to replace them.
Nivis can link to five site sections: posts, about, archives, categories, and friend links. Their navigation switches are independent, but enabled routes must have the content or data expected by their templates.
The new Jukebox Mode plays my entire library
My bigfat Powermac G5 Workstation running ArchPOWER 64 while compiling Claws-Mail under XCFE and running TerminalDrome
claws-mail first window, first start
FreeDoS 1.4 Screenshot by freedos.org
T2/Linux 24.12 with XFCE Desktop on Powermac G5
My TerminalDrome CLient in Search Mode
TerminalDrome Splash Screen
TerminalDrome started, Cover Art, no artist or album chosen