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Thanks for the quick replies. What I mean is: will it still be safe to use when the security updates stop and should any precautions be taken to keep it safe.
Thanks.
Honestly I wouldn't worry too much. By the time Apple stops issuing security updates the OS will be completely deprecated and probably unsupported by a lot of modern software.
I'm still on Snow Leopard thanks to Wacom never fixing their drivers for Lion (or Mountain Lion) and I'm sure many others are in the same boat so Snowy will probably be around for awhile in the creative industry.
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This.
A job I am after requires experience from Tiger up to 10.7.
I'm still on Snow Leopard thanks to Wacom never fixing their drivers for Lion (or Mountain Lion) and I'm sure many others are in the same boat so Snowy will probably be around for awhile in the creative industry.
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This.
A job I am after requires experience from Tiger up to 10.7.
Doesn't mean its unsafe or renders its ability to perform any kind of task.
Plus, I believe its the most stable OSX up to date(after Tiger).
Fixed that for you
(emphasis mine)Anyhow, I still find myself needing to go to Snowy to handle MIDIs, of all things. Playback of MIDI files is horribly broken in Lion, and remains that way in Mountain Lion. Plus, with iTunes being 64-bit in Lion and later, it will no longer open/convert MIDIs to AIFF/WAV/whatever.
EDIT: Now that ML is out, Lion will continue to receive security updates... but not Snow Leopard, or anything older. Generally, at this point, Apple only updates things like iTunes for users of OSes 2 generations behind.