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
Gaming on my Powermac G5
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.
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