OSX 10.4.12 Shuriken

[Dronecatcher]

@svamethyst99 Your iBook still can be of service - use this forum as a resource - Sorbet/Shuriken are only an introduction.

It's best to decide what you want to do then go looking or ask but here's my own hitlist of things regarding online use to investigate:

InterWebPPC/InTheBox/Arctic Fox/TenFourFox (custom prefs file)
Mobile User Agents
PPCMC7
Links2
MPlayer

I no longer have my 600Mhz iBook but here's a video from a few years ago showing what it could do - more recent videos show updates but on my 900Mhz G3 iBook:

 

[NODEraser]

I'm getting ready to play around with it on my Quicksilver, though I do appreciate the Sorbet Leopard approach, which makes for an easy install... Maybe the next release will be an actual installer, where you can pick the features you want and perform a fresh customized install?

 

[B S Magnet]

I'm getting ready to play around with it on my Quicksilver, though I do appreciate the Sorbet Leopard approach, which makes for an easy install... Maybe the next release will be an actual installer, where you can pick the features you want and perform a fresh customized install?

I mean, you could hold your breath, if you don’t mind becoming cyanotic.

 

[darngooddesign]

Just "installed" it on my 12" PowerBook G4 1.33, working well so far. A couple of things:

1. Optmizations > 3. Network > Disable Network Optimizations caused my Airport Extreme wifi to stop working so I just reversed it.

2. Why would we want to disble Universal ad blocking?

3. I have Spotlight mapped to F12 (Dashboard is F11) because I use it as an app launcher, so I disabled indexing, but not Spotlight itself.

4. Does the updated weather widget work for anyone?

 

[darngooddesign]

18 days until the release of OSX 10.4.12 Shuriken.

So I ignored your well documented advice about mixing and matching the appearance stuff and I borked my system😂.

 

[Certificate of Excellence]

So I ignored your well documented advice about mixing and matching the appearance stuff and I borked my system😂.

Ignoring good advice is how I’ve painfully learned many valuable lessons over the passed 25-30 years lol 🙂

 

[Smithwick’s]

FWIW I am a big fan of the Shuriken install method. As someone who has used it a fair number of times there's something so nice and dare I say near-meditative about the process compared to Sorbet's disk image install. Just my two cents!

I'm glad the Shuriken thread is getting a bump, though. For non-G5 Macs stock Leopard or Sorbet were the two options for most up-to-date OS X (not counting SL PPC A5) purely on account of their supported software being newer overall. Recent events in the browser world (really, the big thing) have definitely brought Tiger out of the cage again as a reasonable contender for being more useful on a G4 (and if you have a G3 I'm tempted to say you should just run MacOS 9 and be very proud of it, haha).

 

[Forest Expertise]

FWIW I am a big fan of the Shuriken install method. As someone who has used it a fair number of times there's something so nice and dare I say near-meditative about the process compared to Sorbet's disk image install. Just my two cents!

I'm glad the Shuriken thread is getting a bump, though. For non-G5 Macs stock Leopard or Sorbet were the two options for most up-to-date OS X (not counting SL PPC A5) purely on account of their supported software being newer overall. Recent events in the browser world (really, the big thing) have definitely brought Tiger out of the cage again as a reasonable contender for being more useful on a G4 (and if you have a G3 I'm tempted to say you should just run MacOS 9 and be very proud of it, haha).

I am also a big fan of the Shuriken method, because it lets one pick and choose which tweaks to make, and makes almost all of them reversible. That's very important when some tweaks break compatibility - you have the freedom to try it out and reverse it if you run into a problem (like with bonjour).
It would probably not be too difficult to get a lot of modern software running on G3 running on Tiger if one had such a system to test on. Problem is a lot of G3s are expensive, and your multimedia performance is going to be much worse than a G4 or G5 at the same clock speed. So it's hard to justify the purchase if performance matters. The only G3 that tempts me is the Graphite iBook because of its fanless design, but those have all been out of my price range.
Z970 is also to be thanked for AquaWeb Plus, which is snappy on a G4 running <700 Mhz and therefore probably performs pretty well on G3s >400 Mhz with maxed out RAM.

 

[z970]

@darngooddesign @Smithwick’s @Forest Expertise For the record, Shuriken never received an official thread. If you'd like help or have something to communicate, kindly use either the application page on Macintosh Garden or the Sorbet thread here.

Thank you and much appreciated.