Its Mac OS X 10.5.9 in development?


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I'm pretty sure they will. They won't stop with security updates and the like just because Snow Leopard is out. They'll keep supporting Leopard for a while yet.

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I think if critical issues with Leopard are discovered (bugs, not security issues), they will release a new update.

Security holes fixes will be included in those Security updates.

As of 10.6.2, I'd definitely upgrade to Snow Leopard. People won't have a lot of reasons to stay to Leopard...

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I'm pretty sure they will. They won't stop with security updates and the like just because Snow Leopard is out. They'll keep supporting Leopard for a while yet.

Security Updates aren't distributed by 10.x.x updates per se.

10.4.11 came out after 10.5's release.

Wasn't that a bit of a unique situation?

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If you have an intel mac, do yourself a favor and just upgrade to Snow Leopard. It just works so well.

Agreed. Well worth the ?29 (I got it for ?9, but st:pl :p )

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They defiantly should, Microsoft supports their older OSs for years releasing service packs and such.

It's absolutely amazing how Microsoft kept Windows XP alive like they did. Apple doesn't want to be in the same situation where a large portion of their user base stays stuck in the past and simply refuses to upgrade.

Apple normally drops the release of "service packs" after a major new Mac OS X version has been released. From what I remember Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger was a bit of an exception (probably because it was buggy as hell). They might make the same exception for Leopard seeing as PPC-users can't upgrade to Snow Leopard. However, I wouldn't hold my breath.

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They defiantly should, Microsoft supports their older OSs for years releasing service packs and such.

Microsoft also had a very large install base on Windows XP that refused to move to Vista. We'll see if Windows 7 has the same problem.

As for Apple, they like to keep people on the newest and greatest (and Snow Leopard has had an excellent adoption rate so far). I foresee only minor patches being released for Leopard (like the Performance Update released this week).

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They defiantly should, Microsoft supports their older OSs for years releasing service packs and such.

They do, just like MS they still make security updates for older OS and just like MS they don't offer Service Packs (10.x.y upgrades are the equivalent of small service packs for Windows)

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