MacOs X

the Apple Macintosh Operating System built on top of FreeBSD.

MacOS is a more general label including this version plus earlier versions

list of versions (names vs numbers)

  • 10.0 Cheetah 2001...
  • 10.6 Snow Leopard 2009
  • 10.7 Lion
  • 10.8 Mountain Lion
  • 10.9 Mavericks
  • 10.10 Yosemite
  • 10.11 ElCapitan (Sept'2020 running on the iMac)
  • 10.12 Sierra (Sept'2020 running on my MacBookPro
  • 10.13 High Sierra
  • 10.14 Mojave
  • 10.15 Catalina (Oct'2020 running on my new MacBookPro; Mar'2021 upgraded to this on the ancient iMac) - will probably hit end-of-life fall'2022
  • 11.0 Big Sur
  • 12.0 Monterey - Apr'2022 is at 12.3.1
  • 13.0 Ventura - Oct24'2022
  • 14.0 Sonoma - Sept'2023
  • 15.0 Sequoia

Apr'2011 - the add-ons used by Thirty7 Signals folks.

Dec'2007 list of free apps you can carry around on a Flash Drive. (Of course that assumes that you'd find a Mac to rent time on...)


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