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Posted by: LCGuy on 2009-09-08 18:51:53
Because there is no PowerPC code in Snow Leopard? 😉 (well, not much anyway...while there's still some Universal stuff, none of the core OS code is PPC anymore)
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Posted by: Christopher on 2009-09-08 18:55:54
Because there is no PowerPC code in Snow Leopard? 😉 (well, not much anyway...while there's still some Universal stuff, none of the core OS code is PPC anymore) What I meant was keep Leopard. but take out the x86 code as apple did with the ppc code in SL. Basically the reverse in plan jane Leopard.
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Posted by: LCGuy on 2009-09-08 20:55:57
Oh yeah...I've wondered about the same thing myself. I remember back in the mid 1990's I used to use a program called "I Love Native!" to strip useless PowerPC code from FAT binaries on our LCIII, in order to free up space on our overstuffed 80MB hard drive. 🙂 I imagine if a similar solution existed for OS X, it would be possible.
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Posted by: iMac600 on 2009-09-08 23:38:36
Oh yeah...I've wondered about the same thing myself. I remember back in the mid 1990's I used to use a program called "I Love Native!" to strip useless PowerPC code from FAT binaries on our LCIII, in order to free up space on our overstuffed 80MB hard drive. 🙂 I imagine if a similar solution existed for OS X, it would be possible. Xslimmer. 🙂 It can strip all the Intel or PowerPC native code out of applications, so it should be possible.
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Posted by: Christopher on 2009-09-09 17:46:14
Oh yeah...I've wondered about the same thing myself. I remember back in the mid 1990's I used to use a program called "I Love Native!" to strip useless PowerPC code from FAT binaries on our LCIII, in order to free up space on our overstuffed 80MB hard drive. 🙂 I imagine if a similar solution existed for OS X, it would be possible. Xslimmer. 🙂 It can strip all the Intel or PowerPC native code out of applications, so it should be possible.
Oh, I forgot about that! I remember using it back when I had my iMac G5 iSight.
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Posted by: Mike Richardson on 2009-09-09 20:56:00
When you install Leopard on a PPC Mac, does it even install any x86 code? And vice-versa?
I know the Applications folder will have Universal apps, but what about the actual OS guts? Is it really installing a bunch of worthless x86 code on my G5?
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Posted by: Temetka on 2009-09-09 21:00:40
Good looking iBooks you got there. 🙂
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/grabs iBooks and runs.
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Posted by: ~Coxy on 2009-09-10 20:46:19
When you install Leopard on a PPC Mac, does it even install any x86 code? And vice-versa?
I know the Applications folder will have Universal apps, but what about the actual OS guts? Is it really installing a bunch of worthless x86 code on my G5? Yeah, it does. I even believe that a GUID disk with a plain 10.5 install on it will boot any supported Intel or PPC Mac.
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Posted by: H3NRY on 2009-09-16 18:48:52
Monolingual.app will remove Intel or PPC code as well as unwanted languages.
From the terminal, ditto will also remove an architecture. For example to thin iTunes:
• cd /Applications;sudo ditto --arch [architecture to be stripped] iTunes.app iTunes-thin.app
(where [architecture to be stripped] is either "ppc" or "i386") (--arch ppc thins TO PPC)
Obviously, you want to do this on a fully backed-up system, because you're playing with sharp tools. 🙂
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Posted by: macgeek417 on 2009-09-18 08:35:51
Oh yeah...I've wondered about the same thing myself. I remember back in the mid 1990's I used to use a program called "I Love Native!" to strip useless PowerPC code from FAT binaries on our LCIII, in order to free up space on our overstuffed 80MB hard drive. 🙂 I imagine if a similar solution existed for OS X, it would be possible. Where can I download it (it looks like it's freeware, all I could find is the OS 8 version from Mac Hut)? It would be useful to strip useless PowerPC code from FAT binaries on my LC III to free up space on it's overstuffed 80MB harddrive :lol:
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Posted by: protocol7 on 2009-09-18 09:09:21
Where can I download it (it looks like it's freeware, all I could find is the OS 8 version from Mac Hut)? It would be useful to strip useless PowerPC code from FAT binaries on my LC III to free up space on it's overstuffed 80MB harddrive :lol: http://www.dragonone.com/downloads/vault/archives/ILoveNative.sit'>http://www.dragonone.com/downloads/vault/archives/ILoveNative.sit
More of their tools here http://www.dragonone.com/downloads/
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