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AuroraTrimcelerator - Snow Leopard Comes To PowerPC
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Yes, the things I mentioned shouldn’t be enabled for everyone by default. I use spotlight a lot too by the way.
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Hi everyone! It's fantastic to watch this community work--truly one of the most dedicated and successful I have ever seen in developing for any platform. And of course, thank you so much to @z970mp for this tremendous work in making Mac OS slimming easy.
Thinking about which OS to install on my newly-acquired PB G4 12 inc (1.5 Ghz), and without trying to reignite the whole Tiger vs. Leopard thing...how much of an improvement in UI responsiveness does this add to Leopard? I prefer the look of Leopard, but I always found it to be draggy compared to Tiger. If this patch gets that difference close, might reinstall Leopard. I also understand @z970mp has a version for Tiger, too.
Thanks again!
Thinking about which OS to install on my newly-acquired PB G4 12 inc (1.5 Ghz), and without trying to reignite the whole Tiger vs. Leopard thing...how much of an improvement in UI responsiveness does this add to Leopard? I prefer the look of Leopard, but I always found it to be draggy compared to Tiger. If this patch gets that difference close, might reinstall Leopard. I also understand @z970mp has a version for Tiger, too.
Thanks again!
Hi @sheich0608,
Others can chime in on what their post-Trim experiences are, but I've personally seen a great performance achievement on all the machines I've run these scripts on... otherwise I wouldn't have released them.
Mainly, AuroraTrim will cut out useless kernel extensions that eat background CPU and memory bandwidth, irrelevant libraries, seldom-used fonts that contribute to long application launch times (TenFourFox in particular), and frameworks of applications that Apple has eventually rendered useless, like MobileMe, and Software Update. It also removes redundant debug files that Apple let slip during release, unnecessarily bloating the operating system. So, at absolute minimal, it WILL cut down on used disk space.
AuroraAccelerator will more-so enable advanced features and graphic drawing capabilities, kind of like the scripts that come with Leopard WebKit. It's this script that will do the heavy lifting for improved graphical responsiveness.
And AquaTrim / AquaAccelerator follow the same concept as closely as possible, yes.
I have the same PowerBook, though it's currently in an out of service state. If I recall correctly, the FX 5200 Go it ships with does not support a critical instruction that Core Image requires to operate to its fullest, thereby decreasing performance while still being "supported". So, keep in mind that may play a part during its experience of Leopard.
Hope I was helpful.
Others can chime in on what their post-Trim experiences are, but I've personally seen a great performance achievement on all the machines I've run these scripts on... otherwise I wouldn't have released them.
Mainly, AuroraTrim will cut out useless kernel extensions that eat background CPU and memory bandwidth, irrelevant libraries, seldom-used fonts that contribute to long application launch times (TenFourFox in particular), and frameworks of applications that Apple has eventually rendered useless, like MobileMe, and Software Update. It also removes redundant debug files that Apple let slip during release, unnecessarily bloating the operating system. So, at absolute minimal, it WILL cut down on used disk space.
AuroraAccelerator will more-so enable advanced features and graphic drawing capabilities, kind of like the scripts that come with Leopard WebKit. It's this script that will do the heavy lifting for improved graphical responsiveness.
And AquaTrim / AquaAccelerator follow the same concept as closely as possible, yes.
I have the same PowerBook, though it's currently in an out of service state. If I recall correctly, the FX 5200 Go it ships with does not support a critical instruction that Core Image requires to operate to its fullest, thereby decreasing performance while still being "supported". So, keep in mind that may play a part during its experience of Leopard.
Hope I was helpful.
Is there anything that is known to break with the installation of this? I know you said that you designed this to be lower-risk than AquaTrim, but I am still curious.
@RogerWilco6502 The only things tested to break are built-in applications that Apple has already made unusable due to discontinuation and lack of support, all detailed in the Read Me.
Back when AquaTrim was first released as TenFourTrim, there were a very small amount of fringe kinks to work out, which has since been dealt with through minor updates. AuroraTrim came out after this, so it had time to improve on TenFourTrim, right out of the gate.
Right now, both AquaTrim and AuroraTrim are equally safe. But if for whatever reason the user has second thoughts, they are provided an Undo script, restoring everything back to the exact original configuration.
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If you like what's offered here, you may enjoy what I've also archived to Macintosh Garden...
Back when AquaTrim was first released as TenFourTrim, there were a very small amount of fringe kinks to work out, which has since been dealt with through minor updates. AuroraTrim came out after this, so it had time to improve on TenFourTrim, right out of the gate.
Right now, both AquaTrim and AuroraTrim are equally safe. But if for whatever reason the user has second thoughts, they are provided an Undo script, restoring everything back to the exact original configuration.
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If you like what's offered here, you may enjoy what I've also archived to Macintosh Garden...
AuroraTrimcelerator has been updated to version 1.1.
Alongside a minor rebranding of both scripts to avoid confusion, they have also received a massive consistency improvement within the Read Me, Trimmer, and Accelerator. The New Courier font has also been removed from AuroraTrim's trim list.
All of the above changes have been mirrored in AquaTrimcelerator as well.
Alongside a minor rebranding of both scripts to avoid confusion, they have also received a massive consistency improvement within the Read Me, Trimmer, and Accelerator. The New Courier font has also been removed from AuroraTrim's trim list.
All of the above changes have been mirrored in AquaTrimcelerator as well.
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Cool idea to trim down Leopard and get rid of the intel stuff in it. Also, the QuartzGL optimizations are a good accelerator if the graphics card supports it by HW.
I´m in the process of doing the reverse: Bringing up Snow Leo (10.6.) to PPC in an optimized way, combining the early build(s) from SL with the PPC components of Leopard that are newer in 10.5.8 than in those dev builds of Snow Leo that actually _do_ run on PPC quite fine!
See here to get more info!
I´m in the process of doing the reverse: Bringing up Snow Leo (10.6.) to PPC in an optimized way, combining the early build(s) from SL with the PPC components of Leopard that are newer in 10.5.8 than in those dev builds of Snow Leo that actually _do_ run on PPC quite fine!
See here to get more info!
Monolingual trims out the Intel code, which is a recommended follow up to AuroraTrimcelerator.
The Trimcelerators remove extra fonts (which shortens application launch times), remove extra kexts (which saves memory bandwidth and idle CPU usage), and several other things which accelerate overall system performance.
No code tampering.
The Trimcelerators remove extra fonts (which shortens application launch times), remove extra kexts (which saves memory bandwidth and idle CPU usage), and several other things which accelerate overall system performance.
No code tampering.
@SKStrategia06 Unfortunately, no. This is why both the Read Me and the script explicitly require a fully updated system, so that the user doesn't need Software Update, and then have to face this problem.
If the trimmed files have been deleted (short of me offering the gigabyte-sized file here), you can either reinstall Leopard, or simply download the necessary iLife updates from Macintosh Garden, and then install them that way.
What I usually like to do is make a folder on my desktop to put all necessary files in, so that I can retain the data, and still have a clean desktop. Maybe this method could be useful to you going forward?
If the trimmed files have been deleted (short of me offering the gigabyte-sized file here), you can either reinstall Leopard, or simply download the necessary iLife updates from Macintosh Garden, and then install them that way.
What I usually like to do is make a folder on my desktop to put all necessary files in, so that I can retain the data, and still have a clean desktop. Maybe this method could be useful to you going forward?
@dextructor Not really. You can execute them in any order you like.
However, I would actually recommend to you now to leave AuroraTrim alone and maybe just run the Accelerator. Once I've finished redesigning AquaTrimcelerator (not too much longer now), I'll move over to AuroraTrimcelerator and re-do that, which shouldn't take as long, given how the new base standards would have already been established with the redesigned AquaTrimcelerator.
And don't worry, there is no need to execute the scripts after any length of time. It's one and done.
However, I would actually recommend to you now to leave AuroraTrim alone and maybe just run the Accelerator. Once I've finished redesigning AquaTrimcelerator (not too much longer now), I'll move over to AuroraTrimcelerator and re-do that, which shouldn't take as long, given how the new base standards would have already been established with the redesigned AquaTrimcelerator.
And don't worry, there is no need to execute the scripts after any length of time. It's one and done.
Isn't there a program like this already called: Leopard PowerPC without intel code ? Samething ?
If anyone would like to get involved: Can somebody help me figure out a way to get mdworker to stop automatically starting upon initialization? Disabling the Spotlight and MDS .plist files as commonly referenced on the Internet, in addition to disabling every other Spotlight-relevant file does not work, and not to mention does not remove the menu bar icon as it does on Tiger.
That doesn't remotely have anything to do with what this is. This is a program that cuts Leopard down to make it run better.
With all due respect, the title of this thread is slightly misleading though.
@Amethyst1 Yes, but he already knew what it was.
Still though, this is true. Do you have any suggestions?
Still though, this is true. Do you have any suggestions?
Leopard has no future sadly. As I said, if PPC is to live on it must look towards ARM with universal binaries, or Linux, but it also has to be optimized to run much better than it does now.
You can't say I never had a keen sense of humor.
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