I was trying to get OPENSTEP 4.2 to run in emulation using UTM on a MacBook. I have all the necessary files (install and driver floppy images and the install .ISO) but I couldn’t get UTM to find the right driver to trigger the install. Probably too complicated to do on an ARM machine. Thinking about trying again on my ThinkPad. Does anyone know what software I would need to install to get a 30 year old OS to run on Fedora?
Probably not possible. Fedora is a 64 bit OS and the software you mention that is 30 years old would almost certainly be 32 bit. Fedora does not run 32 bit apps well.
Most of the libraries within fedora are 64 bit.
It may be possible, since you said this is an OS, to install it in a VM with KVM/QEMU/libvirt but nothing is guaranteed.
you can start a virtual machine of OpenStep or NeXTSTEP from the Virtual OS Museum (https://virtualosmuseum.org/). Download the full or lite image and it will fire up a QEMU vm.
NeXTStep/OPENSTEP/Rhapsody NeXTStep 0.8 NeXT 68k machines
NeXTStep/OPENSTEP/Rhapsody NeXTStep 0.9 NeXT 68k machines
NeXTStep/OPENSTEP/Rhapsody NeXTStep 1.0 NeXT 68k machines
NeXTStep/OPENSTEP/Rhapsody NeXTStep 1.0a NeXT 68k machines
NeXTStep/OPENSTEP/Rhapsody NeXTStep 2.0 NeXT 68k machines
NeXTStep/OPENSTEP/Rhapsody NeXTStep 2.1 NeXT 68k machines
NeXTStep/OPENSTEP/Rhapsody NeXTStep 2.2 NeXT 68k machines
NeXTStep/OPENSTEP/Rhapsody NeXTStep 3.0 NeXT 68k machines
NeXTStep/OPENSTEP/Rhapsody NeXTStep (68k) 3.1 NeXT 68k machines
NeXTStep/OPENSTEP/Rhapsody NeXTStep (68k) 3.2 NeXT 68k machines
NeXTStep/OPENSTEP/Rhapsody NeXTStep (68k) 3.3 NeXT 68k machines
NeXTStep/OPENSTEP/Rhapsody NeXTStep (x86) 3.3 x86 PC
NeXTStep/OPENSTEP/Rhapsody OPENSTEP (68k) 4.0 NeXT 68k machines
NeXTStep/OPENSTEP/Rhapsody OPENSTEP (68k) 4.2 NeXT 68k machines
NeXTStep/OPENSTEP/Rhapsody OPENSTEP (x86) 4.2 x86 PC
NeXTStep/OPENSTEP/Rhapsody Rhapsody (Mac OS X Server 1.x) 5.6 (1.2v3) Macintosh (PowerPC-based)
NeXTStep/OPENSTEP/Rhapsody Rhapsody (x86) 5.1 (DR2) x86 PC
install instructions: virtualosmuseum / virtualosmuseum · GitLab
Out of curiosity, I fired up Virtual OS Museum, found the NeXTSTep / OPENSTEP emulations and they fired up sucessfully.
You need have qemu installed on your host system!
Run_Linux_x86 will fire up a Debian VM in QEMU in which there is a “OS Museum Launcher” from where you can start one of the thousands of old systems.
So…rpm-ostree install qemu, then navigate to the site you posted above and click the apprporiate link?
That looks really cool.
