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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.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)
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.
I imagine if a similar solution existed for OS X, it would be possible.
Xslimmer.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.
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.Xslimmer.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.
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?
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?
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.
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.
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: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.
