So I installed OpenBSD 7.0 on my iMac G3 and well no desktop environment will fully install because of missing packages… even compiling CDE was a no go because KSH93 is broken on macppc. At least it’s a step in the right direction as far as getting anything graphical working.

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  • ksh

    ksh 93u+m: KornShell lives! | Latest release: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/releases

  • Why are you installing an old release? 7.1 is out for some time now and has a working ksh93 package built from this upstream repository: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/

  • mlvwm

    Macintosh-like Virtual Window Manager (official repo)

  • You could try giving https://github.com/morgant/mlvwm a try to compile, also extra mac flare :D

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • NsCDE

    Modern and functional CDE desktop based on FVWM

  • Also NsCDE is an FVWM3-based CDE clone environment attempt.

  • ports

    Read-only git conversion of OpenBSD's official cvs ports repository. Pull requests not accepted - send diffs to the ports@ mailing list.

  • mlvwmrc

    Macintosh-like Virtual Window Manager (MLVWM) configuration files

  • The files should be available on this repo https://github.com/morgant/mlvwmrc/

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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