binary packages for 10.5.8

[Chris Jones]

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