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Apple Releases OS X Security Update for Mavericks, Mountain Lion, and Lion Users
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I like to think I'm more "cautious" than "stubborn". I do plan on upgrading my SL 10.6.8 mid-2009 Macbook to Mavericks 10.9.3, mostly because fewer and fewer third-party programs I use are providing updates for SL (like VMware Fusion). But first I'm booting the MB off an external 10.9.2 drive to find out what kind of problems I can expect. And they can be considerable.
1) The new proprietary SMB2 file sharing (instead of Samba) means that I have to switch my Android devices to SFTP rather than CIFS to access files on the MB. I've tried several fixes relating to the /etc/nsmb.conf file, but none of them work form Android, while Samba worked great. Depending on how well SFTP works in the long run, I may have to use SMBUp to port Samba to Mavericks.
2) The native SSHD remote login no longer uses the simple "libwrap" mechanism to limit access, instead relying on the BSD "pf" packet filtering firewall. My BSD experience is limited, and I have yet to find a simple recipe to limit SSH access with pf. I may have to fall back to porting OpenSSH.
Other changes are more annoyances than dealbreakers, and can usually be disabled one way or another. Some of them are indicative of deeper issues, though, like how changing the hostname via "Sharing" preferences no longer changes the hostname universally (like in a Terminal window), and that change requires me to run "scutil". That's just Apple being sloppy, if you ask me.
Back to the third-party issue, I see that as more Apple's doing that the developers. Newer XCode's lack the SL development framework, which works fine when copied from an older XCode. Developers don't know that trick, though, try to make SL applications, but they crash, and they simply say "no more SL". Fusion is a special case, I'll admit, and supporting Fusion 6 is my main reason for updating to Mavericks. But I'm not enjoying it.
Last, I bought both Lion and Mountain Lion and decided not to update each time. The fact that I can update direct to Mavericks for free makes me feel like I paid to be an Apple beta tester. Not happy.
Dude, serious rant right haha. It's ok, get it off your chest.
I agree with you that 10.6 users are a bit stubborn. However, what if they're still using 32-bit only applications?
I just notice a lot of people here taking things way too seriously. I made a joke before about with all of the 10.9.3 developer builds being released, we'll probably see 10.10 released before 10.9.3. Some dude wrote me a long ass reply about the release schedule of every version of OSX. Idk. Maybe I spend too much time on Reddit.
How about that: they (apparently) dropped support for a product that is still being sold!
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573Z/A/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard
Huh, reads somewhat different now, no?
Second, let's take Apple's Vista out of the equation! Mountain Lion is merely a badly needed fix for the Lion mess, so it doesn't really count as a new product either. Or only 1/2 as such. Mavericks is getting close to Snow Leopard again (in terms of network reliability and overall performance), while gradually adding features Apple has taken away (local sync, Save As... the later already having been re-enabled in some later ML release...).
So all in all, let's agree on "Snow Leopard being just the previous release to Mavericks", shall we?
Third, Snow Leopard was released in August 28, 2009 - so that makes it only a 5 years old OS! Hardly a long time span for an OS!
Edit: Yes, I know that SL was not affected by the Triple-Handshake, so the claim that SL support is somewhat shaky - I am just replying to the reactions on that claim.
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Ah, okay, I understand: we are talking about your family's computers with some cheap 400$ scanners etc.
Why don't you follow your own advice and "just move on - nothing to see (or say) here...".
Surely there is an error in the mavericks page ( http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1740 ). It has a photo of Lion there:
Is "Lion" making a comeback? Maybe it ate the X!
I just had a look through my Activity Monitor... Dropbox is 32bit... What the hell? Not too mention for a small program it uses up a measurable amount of proecssing power and RAM.
But I liked the rant, as a new and young Mac user I don't really get why these people are so stubborn - I guess its the same as the XP group. For me I love aggresively updating and getting frequent new releases. Nothing I hate more than the 'new iOS update broke my iPhone' or 'the new iOS update sucks and killed my previously awesome battery life'.
iPhone 5S running 7.1.1 (really felt great though after 7.1) and late 2013 rMBP running 10.9.2 and couldn't be happier. All run great! Can't wait to update to 10.10 and 8.0!
Until Snow Leopard Apple had always struck a fine balance with Quartz animations. Since Lion, the UI animations have felt like I was using a compiz/beryl clone. It feels sloppy and busy. However, I settled on 10.8.5 after tweaking the living daylights out of it. It feels stable and has good support. Staying on Snow Leopard is too difficult now. The Toolchain too old and is causing developers to abandon it. Running Homebrew or Macports on it is too much of a hassle now.
It annoys me that Apple leave so many bugs unpatched on Lion and Mountain Lion. Mountain Lion has problems with the green zoom button on Finder, launchd timeout problems and there is a bug with Textedit on both OS's that causes the save panel to appear in the bottom left corner of the screen even after closing the window. None of these break the OS but it does discourage me from following Apples new upgrade path. I bought a Mac originally to get away from niggles like this.
It annoys me that Apple leave so many bugs unpatched on Lion and Mountain Lion. Mountain Lion has problems with the green zoom button on Finder, launchd timeout problems and there is a bug with Textedit on both OS's that causes the save panel to appear in the bottom left corner of the screen even after closing the window. None of these break the OS but it does discourage me from following Apples new upgrade path. I bought a Mac originally to get away from niggles like this.
Not to mention the annoying audio stuttering bug plaguing some machines... iTunes is totally unusable...
Click on "System Requirements" on that page
Yeah.
Another error.
OS X Lion Server 10.9.2.
I would have thought these errors would have been fixed by now.
But they are still there.
Does anybody from apple actually look at their own website?