Hi everybody, Not sure exactly where to post this, but I’ll give it a go here… I’m hoping someone might be able to help me with a little problem: I’d want to try running a legacy OS on an old PowerMac 7300 I have knocking around, just for a bit of fun, and for learning new stuff. Is it possible to install NeXTSTEP, OPENSTEP and/or BeOS on this machine or do the Apple custom ROM chips preclude this? What I install is not that important to me, all I really want to do is try new OSs on this machine. I have lots of experience using computers but have never attempted anything like this before. Therefore, specific advice in simple terms would be really useful. If there is anyone out there who can help me? Thanks everybody. Jimbo

Try Yellow Dog Linux

http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/

Brando, thanks a lot, I'll have a go at Yellow Dog. Do you have any idea about the possibility of installing NeXTStep 3.x on this machine?

I think that OS, if it was one, might be a little too out dated, and I'm not sure if it is avilable, or where you would find it for free. http://www.gnustep.org/ This seems to be the only continuing form of it http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=4042 Worth reading Another choice might be a form of BSD, and they can run gnustep if you look on the download page of the gnustep website. www.openbsd.org www.freebsd.org www.netbsd.org and I think in linux you have a chance of running gnustep if you use Yellow Dog linux 2.3 (also on the download page of gnustep)