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Re:Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in perfor... by reaperducer on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @06:01PM (#49441291)
Except in the 90s, I could wield my OS of choice on the hardware I bought.

What OS could I have loaded onto my Macintosh SE/30 that wasn't from Apple?

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Re:Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in perfor... by Gud on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @04:00AM (#49445457)
NetBSD.

Still supported, by the way. Does Apple support your Macintosh SE/30 still? I believe Linux was also supported.

https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/mac68k/

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Re:Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in perfor... by reaperducer on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @06:22AM (#49446563)
NetBSD for the Mac didn't come out until after the SE/30 was already discontinued, and even then was little more than a crashy, unusable beta mess, not a real operating system. It was a tech demo, not something you could do work with.
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