Support for Mac OSX 10.5

[Richmond]

On 25/02/14 20:27, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Mark Schonewille wrote:
>
> > Perhaps you shouldn't ask this list but some neutral source to find
> > out how many people are really using older systems.
>
> It seems he did both:  before double-checking with the community, he 
> cited one of the leading metrics commonly used for identifying OS 
> market share, the aggregate stats at NetMarketShare:
>
> <http://www.netmarketshare.com/report.aspx?qprid=11&qpaf=&qpcustom=Mac+OS+X+10.5&qpcustomb=0> 
>
>
> It's difficult to find stats that break down OS X usage by version, 
> but if you can turn up any recent ones from Chikita or others it would 
> be helpful (the most recent I could find from Chikita were more than a 
> year and half old).
>
> Looking around at the rest of the Mac developer community for guidance 
> shows that Firefox dropped support for 10.5 last year and Chrome 
> dropped it in 2012.
>
> Most of Adobe's products currently require 10.6.8, including Flash 
> Player which is extremely dangerous to use without being able to keep 
> up with critical security updates.
>
> Apple's last version of Leopard was 10.5.8, released in August 2009. 
> AFAIK they've released no security updates since then, compounding the 
> dangers present by running outdated versions of Flash with a wide 
> range of known security exposures Apple has since fixed in supported 
> versions of OS X.
>
> If you know of anyone who absolutely must run OS X 10.5, please remind 
> them that it's safe only for local work unconnected to the Internet.
>
>
> Schools needing access to web resources like Wikipedia using systems 
> that are unsafe on the Internet can consider inexpensive options like 
> the Internet In A Box project to bring critical resources into the 
> classroom without external network connections:
> <http://internet-in-a-box.org/>
>
>
> And of course the useful life span of older computers can be greatly 
> extended by installing Linux on them.
>
> For example, Xubuntu (the lightweight Ubuntu variant) runs well on 
> most older computers, and v12.10 will continue to get security updates 
> through October 2015.  Version 14.04 will be released in April, and 
> will receive security updates through April 2019.  A PowerPC build of 
> Xubuntu is maintained by the Ubuntu community as well for those who 
> need it.

At which point it might be not a bad idea to point out that RunRev's 
time might be better spent putting a Linux PPC version of Livecode
together rather than anything for Mac OS 10.5 or lower.

Richmond.

>
> LiveCode runs well on all Ubuntu-based distros v12.10 and later, and 
> on many earlier versions as well but since those are no longer 
> receiving security updates I can't recommend anything earlier than 12.10.
>
> -- 
>  Richard Gaskin
>  Fourth World
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