Bounty for MorphOS port on PowerMac G5

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Bounty for MorphOS port on PowerMac G5

MorphOS.pl in co-operation with Mark 'BigFoot' Olsen is pleased to announce that bounty for MorphOS port to a PowerMac G5 has been opened. Please read more for bounty details.

The bounty goal is to port MorphOS on PowerMac G5 computer. Bounty requirements are as follows:
The port of MorphOS must work on one model of PowerMac G5: A1047 (7,3 - M9747LL/A).
Support of other PowerMac G5 models is not precluded, but is not required.
pl Support of Bluetooth module and AirPort (WiFi) module is not required.
Only one CPU will be supported.
Bounty donations are not related to MorphOS license. Any contributor wanting to buy a MorphOS license for PowerMac G5, will pay the regular price.
Bounty timeframe: 3 months after the programmer receives the machine (see below).
The bounty minimal sum is set to 3000 EUR.
The port will be developed by Mark "Bigfoot" Olsen.
Co-owner of MorphOS.pl portal Wiktor "Pampers" Glowacki will contribute a PowerMac G5 machine and its shipping to South Africa, where Mark Olsen lives currently. After bounty completes, the machine becomes a property of the bounty developer.

Fell free to contribute here: MorphOS.
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For the record I have been using MorphOS on a Power Mac G4 almost exclusively at home for the last 4+ months. It works very, very well with few exceptions. I am posting with OWB browser right now. If you like the "Amiga way" of doing things, give MorphOS a shot.

I can't wait for G5 support! My G4 systems (1.25Ghz and 2.0Ghz) are speedy. I can only imagine how blistering fast a G5 will be!
 
Just for the hell of it, post some browserbench results. Would like to see how it compares to my tablet.
 
There is no PowerPC version of Webkit's Just-In-Time Javascript compiler so performance is not going to be as good as on platforms with ARM or x86 processors. The same issue also applies to MacOS on the same hardware, of course.

TenFourFox, a special MacOS port of Firefox, does include a Just-In-Time Javascript compiler for the Gecko web engine but its performance is a bit of a mixed bag.

That said, if benchmarks are important to you, MorphOS and PowerPC 'desktop' hardware is not for you anyway.

MorphOS is the equivalent of a motorcycle. Its top speed is not going to beat high-performance cars and it can be impractical depending on what you need to do. That said, depending on your preferences riding it can be a lot of fun and potentially save time in very specific scenarious (finding a parking spot, navigating in traffic jams).

That said, the one thing that clearly separates MorphOS from motorcycles is that you won't have a higher risk of dying in a traffic accident while using it :-)
 
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