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Many Mac OS Users Not Getting Security Updates

Posted by Soulskill on from the security-updates-aren't-sexy dept.

AmiMoJo writes "According to security company Sophos, around 55% of home users and 18% of enterprise users have updated to Mavericks, the latest version of Mac OS (10.9). Unfortunately Apple appears to have stopped providing security updates for older versions. Indeed, they list Mavericks itself as a security update. This means that the majority of users are no longer getting critical security patches. Sophos recommends taking similar precautions to those recommended for people who cannot upgrade from Windows XP."

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  1. Re:Does it matter? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    By "real" do you mean the bsd hybrid that OS-X is based on?
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    OS X is based upon the Mach kernel. Certain parts from FreeBSD's and NetBSD's implementation of Unix were incorporated in NeXTSTEP, the core of Mac OS X. NeXTSTEP was the graphical, object-oriented, and UNIX-based operating system developed by Steve Jobs' company NeXT after he left Apple in 1985.[16] While Jobs was away from Apple, Apple tried to create a "next-generation" OS through the Taligent, Copland and Gershwin projects, with little success.[17]
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    Oh wait, you are an apple fan and believe "apple invented everything" right?

    If you are in fact a long-term apple fan perhaps you can let us know how was that co-operative multitasking and manual memory management working out for you when EVERYONE had moved to preemptive and VM models?

    BTW, my "real operating system" (OS-X) runs fine on my hackentosh at a significant discount vs apple, how's yours working out for you?

    http://www.macbreaker.com/2012/05/how-much-money-will-hackintosh-save-you.html

    Mac Pro - $2,500
    CustoMac Pro - $1,100

    Never mind the performance difference between the two systems.