On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 1:09 AM, Jesse St.John <jesselorenstj...@gmail.com> wrote: > alright everyone i am using leopard 10.5.8 on a dp 1.25mhz mdd with 2 gigs > of ram, any tweaks that you would suggest, any ways to go about kernel > hacking and trimming my system? > > i cant really afford a g5 at the moment, and i dig the ppc arch, so i am > using this up for what i am doing. > > im trying to make it ultra-snappy and everything that doesnt need to run or > be loaded, needs to be killed. So any ideas? > > i have gotten a better video card( i have the adc variety 128meg radeon agp) > updated mouse and keyboard and i am using some usb apple pro speakers(there > shot). > > help please............. ideas, things to read, anything
This isn't Linux. People don't normally "kernel hack" OS X and rebuild their kernels. I suppose if you really wanted to, you could hunt down the Darwin source code and build a custom kernel with it. You'd probably be missing some key functionality, though, because I believe Apple kept quite a few proprietary bits to themselves. For stripping out unneeded languages, I believe Monolingual is the app. It breaks some commercial applications, though. There's also a utility to strip out the Intel code in Leopard, but I can't recall it's name at the moment. For improving performance, try adding some RAM (though you may be at the upper limit for that G4) and a bigger/faster hard drive. Make sure your Radeon supports "Core Image" for the best UI experience with Leopard. "Radeon" isn't enough - we also need the GPUs model number, usually something like 7500/9600/9800. Eric -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
