On 16/01/18 09:55, Jan Stary wrote:
The reasons for not having a 10.5 Intel builder are that
no users should need it (all users on 10.5 Intel should upgrade to 10.6)
Why?
many reasons. For instance security. In my view users should always migrate
their machines to the most up to date OS they can run,
Some intel macbooks will not run anything after 10.5.8.
That is why I said most recent OS it can run.
If that Mac OS is then one no longer receiving security updates, then
personally I would consider migrating that machine away from OSX towards
another system (say linux) that does support it with an up to date OS. I
personally would be quite uncomfortable use an unmaintained OS for my
daily computing needs...
one that is still receiving security updates,
and having all the new bugs and incompatible frameworks,
two different things. I am talking about the major security issues (like
Meltdown/Spectra to be topical, or going back a bit the SSL issues) that
aren't, and never will be, fixed on an ancient OS like 10.5. I don't
care about the silly little bugs that inevitably come with new OSes, and
get squash soon after and have no real long term impact.
in order to not expose themselves to possible issues.
10.5 for sure hasn't received any security updates
in a long long while...
(More updates for an OS = more secure OS, clearly.)
IMHO For an OS to be secure it has to be actively receiving new updates
as required, to react to future threats as they come.
Can you please point me to the list of updates
for the respective releases?
No
Jan
Chris
