Re: Patches for OS X Tiger?

[craig bowser <reswob10 () gmail com>]

Ah well.  Looks like I'm going to have to start saving my pennies....

Or convince her to move to Linux.

Thanks for the info everyone!

Craig L Bowser
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On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Joel Esler <joel.esler () me com> wrote:

> Yes, and with the release of Lion, all the old PPC based machines will be
> rendered obsolete.  So if you are hanging onto an old PPC machine, it may be
> time to start thinking about A) Upgrading, and B) now you have a test
> machine to pen against.
>
> J
>
> On May 19, 2011, at 12:02 PM, Paul Asadoorian wrote:
>
> > On 5/19/11 11:28 AM, Joel Esler wrote:
> > > Sometimes I have seen them patch even further back in, for instance,
> Safari.  But generally, no.
> > I think that's why I thought it was support longer than it was, as I
> > remember applying a few updates for things like Safari and iTunes.
> > However, Firefox is no longer supporting it, and neither is Skype, so
> > you can only hang on so long to OS X releases and expect them to be
> > patchable.
> >
> > Thanks for the feedback!
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Paul
> >
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