Re: 10.3.9 hacking

2011-10-22 Thread Andrew Owen
To me Panther was the first version of OS X that really nailed it. Then they started adding bloat like Dashboard. It runs GarageBand 2 (also my favourite version for functionality against bloat) with the most available resources. And PPC has always been better for time syncing than Intel. I

Re: 10.3.9 hacking

2011-10-22 Thread Andrew Owen
Except that Apple doesn't like GPLv3, so the gcc you get in Xcode will forever be a fork of 4.2.1. So far I've managed to build the gcc 3.4.6 using the version of gcc 3.3 included with Xcode 1.5. Going straight to 4.6.1 was never going to work. I then used that version of gcc to build the GNU

Re: 10.3.9 hacking

2011-10-15 Thread Andrew Owen
Explain please dropped in the graphics from Lion. Lion is an x86 build and your Mini is a G4. They're just graphics. They're not CPU dependent. Sure, Panther doesn't use the 512x512 icon definitions in a .icns file, but the file still works. Had to design my own MacOS 9 folder icon, and I

Re: 10.3.9 hacking

2011-10-15 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 15, 2011, at 4:52 PM, Andrew Owen wrote: They're just graphics. They're not CPU dependent. This is interesting. I thought they were normally built against certain other dependencies on other kexts, and that often newer kexts wouldn't load if the kexts it was dependent upon were too

Re: 10.3.9 hacking

2011-10-15 Thread Dan
At 2:52 PM -0700 10/15/2011, Andrew Owen wrote: Explain please dropped in the graphics from Lion. Lion is an x86 build and your Mini is a G4. They're just graphics. They're not CPU dependent. Sure, Panther doesn't use the 512x512 icon definitions in a .icns file, but the file still works.

10.3.9 hacking

2011-10-14 Thread Andrew Owen
Hi folks, I've just stepped over from the Panther list, which is a little slow these days. I'm in the process of hacking 10.3.9 on my G4 Mac mini to be a little more current. So far I've dropped in the graphics from Lion. I've now moved on to updating the UNIX tools, starting with GCC. I'm

Re: 10.3.9 hacking

2011-10-14 Thread Eric Hall
That sounds very interesting indeed. From: Andrew Owen cheve...@gmail.com To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 9:48 AM Subject: 10.3.9 hacking Hi folks, I've just stepped over from the Panther list, which is a little slow these days

Re: 10.3.9 hacking

2011-10-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 14, 2011, at 7:48 AM, Andrew Owen wrote: Hi folks, I've just stepped over from the Panther list, which is a little slow these days. I'm in the process of hacking 10.3.9 on my G4 Mac mini to be a little more current. So far I've dropped in the graphics from Lion. I've now moved

Re: 10.3.9 hacking

2011-10-14 Thread Jonas Ulrich
Yes please keep us informed of your progress. -Jonas -- 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

Re: 10.3.9 hacking

2011-10-14 Thread Doug McNutt
At 15:50 -0700 10/14/11, Eric Hall wrote: That sounds very interesting indeed. From: Andrew Owen cheve...@gmail.com To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 9:48 AM Subject: 10.3.9 hacking Hi folks, I've just stepped over from the Panther list, which is a little slow

Re: 10.3.9 hacking

2011-10-14 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 14, 2011, at 9:48 AM, Andrew Owen wrote: Hi folks, I've just stepped over from the Panther list, which is a little slow these days. I'm in the process of hacking 10.3.9 on my G4 Mac mini to be a little more current. So far I've dropped in the graphics from Lion. I've now moved on

Re: 10.3.9 hacking

2011-10-14 Thread Dan
At 7:48 AM -0700 10/14/2011, Andrew Owen wrote: hacking 10.3.9 on my G4 Mac mini to be a little more current. So far I've dropped in the graphics from Lion. Explain please dropped in the graphics from Lion. Lion is an x86 build and your Mini is a G4. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus;