Re: [Fed-Talk] Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger no longer supported by Apple?
Re: [Fed-Talk] Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger no longer supported by Apple?
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger no longer supported by Apple?
- From: Dave Schroeder <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:47:34 -0600
Of course, Apple doesn't have an official EOL schedule or documentation, so we can never "prove" to security staff or executive leadership that a particular OS is no longer supported. This is further complicated by the fact that Apple sometimes does provide security updates for 10.x-2 (where 10.x is the current release of Mac OS X) soon after 10.x is released.
The best practice that has prevailed since 10.0 is that Apple *always* provides security and other updates for 10.x and 10.x-1. Once 10.x is released, anything <=10.x-2 is no longer supported by security updates.
- Dave
On Nov 9, 2009, at 6:33 PM, Nichols, Jared - 1160 - MITLL wrote:
> Yes, that is correct. Typically Apple will patch OS release N and N-1. 10.4 is now N-2.
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> Jared F. Nichols
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> On Nov 9, 2009, at 7:25 PM, Rex Sanders wrote:
>
>> Apple released security updates today for 10.6 and 10.5, but none for 10.4,
>> even though the updates covered many packages (like Apache) present in 10.4
>>
>> Looks like Apple has dropped support for Tiger
>>
>> -- Rex Sanders, USGS
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