Tabby-PPC

Tabby - a PowerPC distribution of Haiku for Power Mac G3/G4. Boots to the desktop on real hardware: PowerBook G4, iBook G4, iMac G3, Power Mac G4. Sound, WiFi, ethernet, USB, native NVIDIA modesetting, OpenGL.

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przemub·Aug 31, 2026

There have been some contributions accepted recently for the PowerPC port, so maybe it will happen! There is a working AI-driven derivative distribution as well. https://github.com/ActionRetro/Tabby-PPC

In Haiku R1/beta6 has been released

jmmv·Aug 30, 2026

I tried Haiku recently on a not-super-old PC and was impressed by the speed and the reasonable availability of software. I then wished I could run this on my old Powerbook G4 because nothing else seems to run there anymore with ease, and this seems like the perfect desktop OS for such old machines. And it turns out there is now a fork for PPC: https://github.com/ActionRetro/Tabby-PPC ! (Why a fork? Because it's primarily vibecoded and Haiku won't take the patches upstream. But hey, I'm gonna give it a try anyway.)

In Haiku R1/beta6 has been released