@wicknix On average, I tend to have a lot more fun updating reFlash and AquaWeb. Revision 1.5's development cycle (and Sorbet's as a whole) was, in comparison, a little bit destructive. For me, OS development is a very different beast to isolated apps and websites and has 10 times the moving parts involved -- and if that's not respected, everything breaks.
Call me an architectural zealot, but this project was born slightly more out of love than fun, in all honesty. Although it was definitely a good learning experience on the whole.
With that being said, one of these days, I have got to install one of your famous remixes.
@Doq Before the idea was canned, I did assemble an ordered archive of all Leopard updates that the user was intended to install manually after installing the base system from disc, before opening the actual 10.5.9 installer. So, I can send that archive to you to save time on your end while packaging the final product; if that task is indeed taken on.
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On another note, it would be interesting to see if anyone takes over future development of Sorbet at some point down the line. As Darwin is open source, one of the things I wanted to do was include a custom performance-optimized kernel that took as many pointers from Darwin 10 as possible, without actually using the PPC-compatible version from the SL alpha. But even so, configuring and compiling it was too ambitious even for me and the stock Darwin 9.8 had to suffice.
And more desirable than that, there was also 10.4.12 for G3 CPUs ...
But I digress; these are just stationary ideas.