[X2Go-Project] [X2Go-User] Plan to drop Mac OS X 10.6 support

[nanook at eskimo.com]

     I don't know if you make a power PC Mac build, but power PC Mac's
can't upgrade past 10.5, and the early Intel Mac's like the PowerMac 1,1
can't upgrade past 10.7 officially.  Unofficially it's possible by flashing
the bios, using a special boot loader that translates 64-bit bios calls
into the 32-bit bios the machine has, and a newer video card but that is
totally unsupported by Apple.  So no support for 10.5 will leave the
PPC Mac folks out and 10.7 will leave the early Intel Mac's out unless they
want to do like I did and load Linux on their Mac (which is a huge
performance win).

On Thu, April 16, 2015 1:16 pm, Stefan Baur wrote:
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> Hi everyone,
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>
> I would like to inform you that we're planning to drop OS X 10.6
> support this month or during the next few months (depending on your
> feedback), as part of our ongoing effort to streamline and automate the
> build process for X2GoClient's OS X versions.
>
> Currently, we have to create a separate build for OS X 10.6, which, if
> we move to new (hosted and virtualized) build hardware, would probably
> double our monthly costs, so we're trying to avoid that.
>
> Rationale:
> OS X 10.6 is no longer receiving security updates by Apple since
> February 2014.
>
>
> For OS X 10.5, Apple ceased security support in September 2011.
> We continued to support OS X 10.5 in X2GoClient until April of 2012.
> That was a good 6 months over the official end of support from Apple's
> side.
>
> Following that logic, we should already have dropped support for OS X
> 10.6 around August 2014, so it's long overdue to do so.
>
>
> TL;DR:
> If you're currently using OS X 10.6 and have no plans or no way to
> upgrade to a newer release, please speak up now. We might consider
> providing OS X 10.6 builds of X2GoClient for longer if someone steps up
> and sponsors the work.
>
> - -Stefan
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