In my native tongue it’s actually;
“Well mate, there’s more than one way to skin a roo!”
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Sorbet Leopard - Your Power Mac Unleashed
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“Well mate, there’s more than one way to skin a roo!”
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Didn't check but my pram battery is dead and I have too new of a router to connect to an old mac (that means I can't get time online) so it might have set back to 1969. But why would that effect copying things?
I don't know why it does, but it does. Maybe the Finder doesn't like dealing with files that come from the far future?
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@z970 I finally got around to putting revision 1.5 in both my iBook G4 and PowerMac G4. It’s a work of art.
I just wanted to say thanks.
I just wanted to say thanks.
@z970 i agree with @pipetogrep . I removed official leopard and only have this on now for months . Thank you !
I've noticed that Sorbet Leopard has got a Revision 1.5 since the last time I looked at it. Are there any notable changes coming with that so-called Revision 1.5? I'm using the version 9L31a which I downloaded last year December, I don't know its Revision number.
9L31a is Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.8, so any version of ‘Sorbet’ will also be 9L31a.
There is a changelog, I believe, detailing any additional tweak scripts or pre-bundled themes added per revision.
Was the app store included in the version you have installed currently? That’s something that has actually been created uniquely for this project - that and everything else can manually be copied over if you desire without a need for wiping your existing partition.
All can be moved over to an existing 10.5.8 install as well if one was inclined. I don’t use Sorbet personally as i find it less optimal in terms of speed and functionality than my own tweaked 10.5.8 using the collective and collaborative tips and knowledge gathered from the generous users of this forum over the years.
It is nice to see interest generated for these machines via this project however, even if end users are often mis-informed to believe that it has anything to do with Snow Leopard or the SLPPC project.
As a pre-made tweaked 10.5.8 bundled with optimisation scripts, documentation and community made themes it is a nice entry point for novice users who don’t have the knowledge or inclination to tinker themselves.
Are you able to elaborate about your own particular tweaks please? I'd definitely like to know the details if you've been able to obtain even better results.
Nothing unique and I’d feel bad if I were to hijack this thread, but if you peruse the powerpc wikis you’ll find most if not all tweaks collected and carefully collated by the community over the years. I may share what i’ve done personally at some point in a separate thread, but at present I don’t have enough free time to play with my machines and when I do find time again, I plan to continue working on SLPPC. I am tempted to build a PowerPC optimised 10.5.8 kernel at some point but that will have to wait for the moment.Are you able to elaborate about your own particular tweaks please? I'd definitely like to know the details if you've been able to obtain even better results.
It's in the second download on Sorbet's page on the Garden.
That's just my $0.02, but misinformation often does more harm than good. Sorbet should™ clearly distance itself from Snow Leopard.
If Sorbet Leopard is sponging any community work to emerge from the SL-PPC project or community-shared Leopard optimizations without giving express attribution (or intimating it’s in any way adjacent to, say, Snow Leopard), wouldn’t this make it, uh, ABsorbeNt Leopard? 🤔
Fair enough, I'll have a look.
We all do what we can, when we can because Real-Life Syndrome™ takes priority.
This sounds really exciting and such a development would be well worth the wait.
I'm in total agreement on a personal and professional level.
Careful, you know how touchy people are about these projects...
Thank you for the comment.
I 've stated that 9L31a for the lack of a Revision number. My Sorbet Leopard was released in December 2021, whatever Revision number it is. It could be Revision 1.4. It works so perfectly on my Mac mini G4 1.5Ghz, that I wouldn't update to that Revision 1.5, really.
However, the app store looks real cool. I think it's the first time I see it. Can it be downloaded separately, so that I can use it on my Revision 1.4 w.o. having to update the whole OS?
Download link 4- Sorbet Plus. The app store is in there. https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/sorbet-leopard
I used to get wound up by folk on social media promoting Sorbet as the sole project that has dragged PPC Macs out of a wilderness of obsolescence, from a functional void that has made them useless for nearly a decade.
But after the blizzard of fanboy rage from any non obsequious analysis I provided, I realised that most of these were new users that after installing and making a #metoo post would likely move on to the next new thing anyhow.
Sorbet has captured a few new genuine enthusiasts which has got them digging deeper and finding their own path - in that respect, it's been a good thing.
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I’m fairly certain most, if not all, credits are presented within the documentation, just not necessarily broadcast in the hyperbolic marketing machine.
Had a recent craving to play around with PowerPC again and came across this. Could never get Leopard installed on my PBG4 as the Leopard installer would never see the SSD, but Tiger did so Tiger it was. With how this installs though this made my beloved PBG4 finally able to update! OS Runs great, only complaint I guess I would have is that the App Store could be better (names of the apps instead of just icons to refresh my memory!), but a small complaint.
Good Work!
Good Work!
Unless you can find NOS somewhere, options for finding replacement batteries have gotten kind of kind of slim.