Sorbet Leopard

[The House of Moth]

Howdy folks,
Just want to point out a project that resulted in a Leopard/Snow Leopard hybrid called; Sorbet Leopard.
You can read about it here: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/sorbet-leopard-10-5-reinvigorated-updated.2300924/
And read/download here:

Sorbet Leopard - Macintosh Garden

Mac OS X Sorbet Leopard offers a significant jump in speed and security over the original Leopard by employing advanced methods of performance optimization and system streamlining, the end result of which directly rivals the user-facing improvements seen in Snow Leopard on Intel platforms.

macintoshgarden.org

I've never liked Leopard. Tiger has been my go-to OS for PPC but I may finally replace Tiger if this pans out and is as good as it seems
Check it out and share your experiences!

To run this:
A PowerPC G4 processor or better
512 MB SDRAM or better
A 20 GB Apple Partition Map-formatted partition or larger
A Core Image-supported video card is strongly recommended

 

[Certificate of Excellence]

I reached out to z970 and let him know about this thread so if there are any questions, he could address them directly. I think he would be a great fit here.

Bruce, I made him aware of your offer of free beer.

 

[The House of Moth]

What model G5 are you running Sorbet on ?

G4 all the way in this house!
I'll be trying Sorbet on this puppy.

 

[z970]

@Certificate of Excellence Thanks again for the heads-up, CoE! I've been watching TinkerDifferent since it first launched, and I think there's definitely a lot of promise here. Namely, I like the fact that it's heavily forum-focused and caters purely to the vintage computing crowd; aside from VOGONS, nothing else that is currently immersed in that broader sphere really comes to mind.

Anyway, I hope everyone enjoys Sorbet Leopard as much as I enjoyed making it!

 

[Genjoke]

I just installed Sorbet on my iBook G4, on my iMac G4 and on my iMac G5.

It runs very well on the iBook but freezes after some minutes on the G4 or G5. In fact it does not freeze, freeze, it gets the spinning rainbow ball and nothing else works, not even shutdown.

Anyone having this kind of problem??

 

[Kai Robinson]

Anything in the console log to indicate what it might be?

 

[KingDingus]

Browsing TinkerDifferent now with my G5 utilizing Sorbet Leopard. Working great!

 

[Certificate of Excellence]

Which G5?

 

[KingDingus]

PowerMac 7,2
Dual 1.8

 

[nottomhanks]

So you can run somewhat modern software on my Dual 2.3 G5 Tower? Might have to try that then.

 

[KingDingus]

You will only be able to run the regular PowerPC software