binary packages for 10.5.8

Chris Jones jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
Wed Jan 17 17:36:57 UTC 2018



On 17/01/18 16:59, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Chris Jones wrote:
>> many reasons. For instance security. In my view users should always 
>> migrate their machines to the most up to date OS they can run, one 
>> that is still receiving security updates, in order to not expose 
>> themselves to possible issues. 10.5 for sure hasn't received any 
>> security updates in a long long while...
> 
> neither does 10.6 nor 10.7 even.

indeed, ... and I wouldn't run them either on a machine I used for my 
daily digital needs. If I had hardware that could not be updated to an 
OSX version that still received security updates, then I would be 
looking to migrate that machine away from OSX to some other OS (linux).


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