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Hardware / Re: Rare NeXT hardware

Last post by ZombiePhysicist - Nov 24, 2025, 02:30 PM

Very cool. I prefer the simplicity of the original stand but sounds like a serious hardware upgrade.

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Hardware / Re: Rare NeXT hardware

Last post by krazycat - Nov 24, 2025, 01:51 PM

This is the last model produced, and it only came with an ADB connector. I have one in my collection; the CRT quality is better than the early N4000 monitors with the heavy iron bases.

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Hardware / Rare NeXT hardware

Last post by ZombiePhysicist - Nov 24, 2025, 01:44 PM

Thought this could be a fun thread.

To start things off, I've never seen this monitor base before:
https://x.com/applemuzeumpl/status/1883976950643057142?s=61

#4

Software / Re: Window Maker Live (Linux d...

Last post by ZombiePhysicist - Nov 23, 2025, 10:07 PM

It looks great! Congrats!

#5

Software / Re: Window Maker Live (Linux d...

Last post by wmlive - Nov 23, 2025, 07:01 PM

Window Maker Live based on Debian/Trixie 13.2 has been released!

For the first time, it is offered for all three architectures i386, amd64, and also arm64.

Find all further details at https://wmlive.sourceforge.net

Since the fundraiser at ko-fi.com/wmlive was quite a deception, i've decided to make only the i386 ISO freely available for everybody, and offer the amd64 and arm64 variants as encrypted 7z archives requiring a password to unpack. Before this password will be publicly disclosed at the end of the year, for the time being, only former and future donators will be provided with it.
Also fellow open source developers will be freely given this password upon request.

As an added bonus, any of our forum members who is interested in more than just the i386 variant of wmlive, please contact me privately to receive your free password.

#6

Hardware / Re: NeXT eBay Finds!

Last post by jeffburg - Nov 23, 2025, 04:46 AM

Thanks for making this. I will post Yahoo Auction finds when I find them, like this one
https://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/b1207895932

#7

Hardware / NeXT eBay Finds!

Last post by ZombiePhysicist - Nov 23, 2025, 03:50 AM

Thought I'd start a thread of cool NeXT hardware and/or related finds! Post anything cool you find and might want to share here!

To start things off, this was shared (thanks @trixster) in discord recently:

https://ebay.us/m/gxJcPW

#8

General Discussion / Re: NeXT sightings!

Last post by Rhetorica - Nov 21, 2025, 05:42 PM

I spotted at least three slabs in Userlandia's VCF Midwest 2025 video:

One mono, one color, and one for sale.

#9

Software / Re: List of current open-sourc...

Last post by jeffburg - Nov 21, 2025, 04:44 AM

I had never heard of darling. that's really cool!

#10

Software / List of current open-source pr...

Last post by Rhetorica - Nov 20, 2025, 10:41 PM

ravynOS hit the front page of Hacker News today, so I thought I'd do a round-up listing the (current) major efforts to build some sort of implementation of OpenStep.

• Obviously the oldest is GNUstep, which is so old that the first versions actually ran under OPENSTEP 4.2! Although Étoilé used to be the star of the GNUstep scene, it's been dead for over a decade, and the current major distros of WindowMaker all return to the classic NeXT look. From strictest to most inclusive, they are NEXTSPACE, GSDE, and Window Maker Live.
• Although somewhat infrequently-updating, the legacy of the community Darwin project still exists in the form of PureDarwin. However the last version is Darwin 17, which is from the macOS 10.13 days, and does not include a GUI. Slightly more activity occurs on their Discord server.
• Darling is a project to make a WINE equivalent for macOS—it parses Mach-O binaries and intercepts calls to let basic ObjC programs run under Linux. It aims to be a clean implementation of Cocoa modern OpenStep, though only very primitive graphical applications work currently. Quartz is hard, man!
• The newest kid on the block is the aforementioned ravynOS project, which combines bits of the forgotten NextBSD project (which added Mach messaging to the FreeBSD kernel) with the Cocoa implementation of Darling. Its goal is to be the ReactOS equivalent to Darling's WINE equivalent, and the two indeed share code much like WINE and ReactOS did. ravynOS does have a rudimentary X11-based desktop environment with Mac-like affectations, but it's no more (or less) mature than Darling.
• Finally, helloSystem is none of the above—it's a distro of FreeBSD with a bunch of Qt apps running on top, reproducing the look and feel of late-era Mac OS X. But just like WMlive is more complete than NEXTSPACE, helloSystem offers a comparatively robust and complete user experience versus any of the other "open Mac" projects. ravynOS seems to have begun by tearing up the floorboards of helloSystem.

(Did I miss any?)