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People are getting quite excited on LEM Facebook page as they're start to install the Sorbet Leopard. ?
I'll be able to tell you soon, when I get around to itOK so.... how's this gonna run on a 550mhz G4 Pismo? Anyone give it a shot yet? I'm loading it onto my TiBook today BUT I'd love to know if I should even bother on the Pismo workhorse...
@Dronecatcher Sorbet Leopard should not be compared to traditionally-optimized Leopard installs of the past. As is the case with foxPEP, there is a lot more going on here under the hood than the user might at first realize, including network transfer rate optimizations, system-wide ad blocking, no Spotlight, no BeamSync, no unnecessary background services, slimmed-down libraries, frameworks, bundles, files, and databases, etc ... the changelog details the rest.
Architecturally, it is identical in concept to how Snow Leopard was designed to take full advantage of the Intel machines, but the execution is different. Because most operations on PowerPC OS X are CPU-bound to begin with, it is essentially the equivalent of systematically chopping up regular Leopard into bite-sized chunks so that these older processors (and GPUs, to a lesser degree) can chew through it faster, and therefore do everything else faster as well because now there are many more CPU cycles to spare. In my past experience with the Trimcelerator scripts, mere tweaks alone would not be able to accomplish a feat of that scale.
I concur with the points @Dronecatcher makes. Unless you have re-coded the system to use code blocks, Grand Central Dispatch and so forth then this is a false claim and one that not only disrespects the intelligence of the other members here, but also in misrepresenting your work you are doing yourself a disservice. Sorbet is being received well for what it is, why muddy the water with exaggerated claims?@Dronecatcher Sorbet Leopard should not be compared to traditionally-optimized Leopard installs of the past. As is the case with foxPEP, there is a lot more going on here under the hood than the user might at first realize, including network transfer rate optimizations, system-wide ad blocking, no Spotlight, no BeamSync, no unnecessary background services, slimmed-down libraries, frameworks, bundles, files, and databases, etc ... the changelog details the rest.
Architecturally, it is identical in concept to how Snow Leopard was designed to take full advantage of the Intel machines, but the execution is different. Because most operations on PowerPC OS X are CPU-bound to begin with, it is essentially the equivalent of systematically chopping up regular Leopard into bite-sized chunks so that these older processors (and GPUs, to a lesser degree) can chew through it faster, and therefore do everything else faster as well because now there are many more CPU cycles to spare. In my past experience with the Trimcelerator scripts, mere tweaks alone would not be able to accomplish a feat of that scale.
@fra9000 There are few things in life I enjoy doing more than to serve my community.
Can't wait until the overview videos start to surface ... they're inevitable.
Oh. Is there a way to enable Spotlight?
You don’t have to keep quiet! I’m just suggesting you word your marketing posts more carefully, as you stated, you’re aiming this primarily at less tech savvy or possibly even a younger generation of users that aren’t familiar with the specifics. My opinion is only that with influence comes responsibility. It’s your project and you’re free to say whatever you like of course.@Dronecatcher @ChrisCharman Perhaps I worded that wrong. As you may know, I view the value of something in the form of the end result that it provides. My present understanding is that very few people today (outside of passing tinkerers as well as the members of this forum) have actually taken advantage of the individual tweaks for Leopard that have been uncovered over the years, even though they have been available to the public for some time - which means their existence by itself didn't do much as far as the average Joe using his old Mac is concerned. Case in point, last I checked, only several people seemed to have made use of the specific optimization methods I mentioned. Those were all by and large obscure threads that were buried relatively quickly, if memory serves.
But when they've been pre-assembled in a user-friendly manner and given an identity for instant recognition, their benefit suddenly becomes available to passerby, as well as folks who just want to get to work (who usually aren't inclined to do any tweaking to their installs in the first place). It is for this same reason that eyoungren's TFF tweaks never took root outside of this forum, while foxPEP (which used entirely different tweaks) did. As I've explained before, I've seen over time that if something isn't perfectly plug-and-play, people just aren't going to use it.
Similarly, my above comment wasn't meant to mislead or disrespect anyone's intelligence, but to simply offer another way of looking at this. Altering the system to not render displayed graphics more times than is necessary, to not autonomously index disks while the user is busy doing something else, and to not endlessly search for AirPort devices by default (even if no AirPort card is installed) are all examples of chopping up Leopard into bite-sized chunks, just through a different lens of interpretation.
And actually, given that Darwin (and by extension XNU) is open source, creating a new and performance-optimized kernel version for future inclusion isn't necessarily off the cards at this point in time, since the base system has already been established.
In the end though, I suppose I'm thinking about this more in a right-brained sense, which doesn't seem to be matching up with the consensus here ...
In which case, I'll keep quiet.
@Romain_H Applications > Utility Scripts > Spotlight > Enable Spotlight
The included scripts interface with launchctl as Apple intended. If Spotlight is enabled or disabled by the displacement of relevant system files instead, it will likely introduce a stream of errors in the system log as the mdutil daemon was never disabled and is effectively wondering where the files went.
..so wot would you suggest it be called then?You don’t have to keep quiet! I’m just suggesting you word your marketing posts more carefully, as you stated, you’re aiming this primarily at less tech savvy or possibly even a younger generation of users that aren’t familiar with the specifics. My opinion is only that with influence comes responsibility. It’s your project and you’re free to say whatever you like of course.
A custom kernel would be indeed worth considering - many systems administrators do this to optimise for their specific environments.
Edit: Food for thought. A young child downloads Sorbet and makes a YouTube video boasting that they are running ‘10.5.9’ or ‘Snow Leopard for PPC Sorbet Edition’ and gets ridiculed and trolled because of it. Now that may seem a leap but as a father I consider these things seriously, i’m just hoping you’ll do the same. We need more honesty and transparency in this world. Apologies for the preaching but i’d rather get things off my chest straight away when something bugs me.
Other OSes do not exist..?version of Mac OS X.
Next time read the original post. “Slower overall system performance than Snow Leopard”. Snow Leopard is Intel. The person who made this hack complains that leopard is slower than snow leopard. That’s a given.You seem to be arguing against a point nobody has made?
This is a thread about a tweaked install of Leopard for PowerPC - Intel doesn't come into it and neither does Snow Leopard.
They surely do. But I presume (with no offence intended) that the majority of people who run PPC Macs and are a member of this subforum run some version of Mac OS as primary OS on these, either in its "classic" form or the Darwin-based form. And my point was that as far as Mac OS X is concerned, Leopard is the newest official release-grade version.Other OSes do not exist..?![]()
Looking back to Classic, 9.2.2 was just a collection of bugfixes to 9.2.1, which was just a collection of bug fixes to 9.2, which only had a small handful of new features (one of them being general optimization) over 9.1 -- same thing for 9.1 to 9.0.4, which was preceded by 9.0.3 and 9.0.2, both of which were just bugfix patches. According to Apple marketing, 10.5.8's only difference to 10.5.7 is bugfixes, patches to AirPort, and a Safari update. I'd say Sorbet Leopard's changes would easily be enough to change the major revision to 10.6 if Snow Leopard didn't exist to cause confusion, definitely radical enough to earn the 10.5.9 version number, if anything that's completely understated. I imagine that the actual reason for the pushback against calling it 10.5.9 is just because Apple didn't officially sanction it.In response to your question to me (I’m going to treat it as a single question asked 3 times over two separate posts) I don’t suggest it needs a new name at all. It has a name ‘Sorbet Leopard’ which is apt and doesn’t confuse the project with anything else. ‘10.5.9’ is a misnomer and inaccurate but still ties it to Leopard at least. I actually think ‘10.5.8+‘ is better, you should reconsider the value of your own suggestion - it is still 10.5.8 after all but with additions.
People can call their OS whatever they want - my Snow Leopard is running a ton of hacks so therefore it is now....I imagine that the actual reason for the pushback against calling it 10.5.9 is just because Apple didn't officially sanction it.
You make a solid argument, much of which i agree with. Kernel versions and code changes make a difference though to be fair and I disagree with your point regarding a move to a 10.6 naming scheme had SL never been released - traditionally a major version number change requires significant under the hood changes that breaks compatibility and requires new APIs and so on. My point wasn’t against the use of the 10.5.9 moniker regardless, nor was I suggesting the project needs to be renamed, in fact if you actually read my responses you’ll see that the name only came into discussion because another user projected an argument onto me that wasn’t mine to begin with. I’m unsure as to why i’m having to clarify that again.Looking back to Classic, 9.2.2 was just a collection of bugfixes to 9.2.1, which was just a collection of bug fixes to 9.2, which only had a small handful of new features (one of them being general optimization) over 9.1 -- same thing for 9.1 to 9.0.4, which was preceded by 9.0.3 and 9.0.2, both of which were just bugfix patches. According to Apple marketing, 10.5.8's only difference to 10.5.7 is bugfixes, patches to AirPort, and a Safari update. I'd say Sorbet Leopard's changes would easily be enough to change the major revision to 10.6 if Snow Leopard didn't exist to cause confusion, definitely radical enough to earn the 10.5.9 version number, if anything that's completely understated. I imagine that the actual reason for the pushback against calling it 10.5.9 is just because Apple didn't officially sanction it.
10.5 Leopard is also Universal. Just putting that out there.Next time read the original post. “Slower overall system performance than Snow Leopard”. Snow Leopard is Intel. The person who made this hack complains that leopard is slower than snow leopard. That’s a given.