NetBSD on the last G4 Mac mini and making the kernel power failure proof

For those who are not familiar with the author of this blog, he is a PowerPC enthusiast and the maintainer of TenFourFox, a Firefox port to PPC OS X. He&#x27;s also currently working on a new PPC JIT for (modern) Firefox on Linux (a project for which he is looking for volunteers to assist him[1]) to bring it to speed parity with Chrome on PPC (which already has a PPC JIT).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.talospace.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;03&#x2F;pitch-into-firefox-jit.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.talospace.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;03&#x2F;pitch-into-firefox-jit.htm...</a>

Somewhere there are chip designers thinking they can create the first processor on which NetBSD cannot run. Have fun kids: many have tried that and failed!

As fun as this is (and as much as I appreciate putting good old hardware to use and as much as I like PPC): the power consumption alone wouldn&#x27;t make this a winner :(<p>I have a PowerBook G4 DVI, iBook G4, B&amp;W G3, GbE G4, Dual G5 here, I want to get rid of them but I like them too much. Yet I can&#x27;t run them for fun all day long either because the amount of power they eat &gt;:( The problems of a hardware connoisseur.

The fire extinguisher on the desk is a nice touch; though I&#x27;m not sure that&#x27;s enough volume to extinguish a G4 fire.