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Apart from Atari's proprietary Unix, the TT also runs Linux (https://imgur.com/a/gpvi3du) and NetBSD (https://twitter.com/nbtt030).

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That's not as much fun. It's like installing Linux on a SPARCstation, an SGI, or an IBM RS/6000. It's possible, but just not as much as exploring the uniqueness of those machines.

Yeah, NetBSD is the same everywhere. Partition, configure, set the network, pkgin, pkgsrc, repeat. CTWM today will run fastly enough on almost any X supported arch. It's really useful, and because of that, it's boring :).

With OpenBSD the same, too. Except for some webkit browser, a DE with CWM and XTerm plus ksh's will not differ at all from a PC with the same config.

What fun is to manage your AIX desktop if you can't run smitty?

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