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: Allan Marcus <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:59:19 -0700
If you ask AppleCare, officially, Apple only supports the current
shipping OS. The fact that Apple releases 10.5 updates is gravy (gravy
being good :-)
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Thanks,
Allan Marcus
505-667-5666
On Nov 10, 2009, at 5:32 AM, Nichols, Jared - 1160 - MITLL wrote:
I pointed out to Shawn Geddis that exact point (no official EOL/
documentation) not long ago. The policy here is that if an OS is no
longer receiving security patches, it can't be on our production
network. I don't think it's too outlandish of a policy and I'm sure
plenty of folks on this list work at places with the same policy.
But, without such documentation/policy, we never *really* know that
the OS isn't being patched so therefore, you have all of these older
OSes out on the LAN that by wink-wink nudge-nudge we *know* aren't
being patched, but there's nothing official from Apple backing that
up so we can't actually go to the user or their management and say,
"Look, you have to get it of the LAN or upgrade it"
The policy of having no policy is completely naive if a company is
going to be in Enterprise. There are folks within Apple who agree
that it's asinine... I'm not sure why Apple is so loathe to change
this point. I'm not really sure what damage is occurring when a
company says "our OS from x years ago is no longer going to be
patched," heck, you may get some more sales from that.
I just don't understand it.
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Jared F. Nichols
Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure & Operations
Information Services Department
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
244 Wood Street
Lexington, Massachusetts 02420
781.981.5436
On Nov 9, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Dave Schroeder wrote:
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
Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure & Operations
Information Services Department
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
244 Wood Street
Lexington, Massachusetts 02420
781.981.5436
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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