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[Sw-release-announce] Reminder: Mac OS X 10.2 retirement today
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Albert Willis)
Fri Feb 3 09:14:47 2006
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From: Albert Willis <awillis@mit.edu>
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Date: Friday, February 3, 2006
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From: Software Release Team <swrt@mit.edu>
Subj: Reminder: Mac OS X 10.2 retirement today
Cc: is&t@mit.edu, itag@mit.edu, it-lead@mit.edu
Information Services and Technology will discontinue support for Mac
OS X 10.2 "Jaguar" on February 3, 2006. New versions of applications,
such as FileMaker Pro 8 and Dreamweaver 8, do not run on Mac OS X
10.2; we expect that other companies with follow suite and no longer
support 10.2 as they revise their applications.
Users with supported hardware that will be used for at least the rest
of fiscal year 2006 are encouraged to upgrade to Mac OS X 10.4
"Tiger," Apple's newest operating system.
Last month, IS&T announced the release of Tivoli Storage Manager
5.3.2 and SAPgui 6.40, both adding support for Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger"
and enabling users that rely on these applications to upgrade to
Tiger. For departments, labs and centers that use AFS, a final
version that supports Tiger should be available from its developers
soon.
Mac OS X 10.4 System Requirements
---------------------------------
The requirements for requesting Mac OS X 10.4 licenses from IS&T are
as follows:
* an MIT-owned desktop or laptop Macintosh, with an 800 MHz or faster processor
* at least 512 MB of RAM
* 3 GB (4 GB if installing the developer tools) of available hard drive space
To provide the most value to MIT, only machines that are going to be
in service until June 30, 2006 or later should be upgraded. Licenses
obtained from IS&T on machines that are deactivated should be
returned to the license pool.
Licenses for Mac OS X 10.4 can be obtained from
http://web.mit.edu/ist/products/vsls/mitmacos/.
-- Al
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Albert Willis
Macintosh Platform Coordinator - Software Release Team
Client Support Services
Information Services and Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
awillis@mit.edu
