How did this pan out? would love to see a screenshot. Sorry, I haven't got much useful to add regarding mac-ppc, just adding my thoughts.

(25-05-2020, 03:04 PM)jkl Wrote: Installing NetBSD is certainly an interesting task. It pays off too: Once it works, you don't want to replace it anymore because you don't want to ruin your hard work. Similar to what I had experienced with Gentoo ... :-)

This. But It's only an interesting task the first time. Once you know the procedure for that piece of hardware it a matter or just backing up your config files and following the same process. Try to install on different hardware however keeps things "interesting" :-)

NetBSD might be highly portable, but its only as portable as your knowledge of the system and hardware. It took me a solid 36 hours and 3 failed attempts to first install NetBSD on my ThinkPad. But if I needed to reinstall again I could do it in 1.