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macOS Monterey still vulnerable to CVE-2022-40303

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> Why don't all Mac users just update to Ventura? Well, some of them can't. Ventura dropped support for a number of Mac models: compare Ventura with Monterey system requirements

I expect that intel Macs don't have much steam left in terms of macOS upgrades. The first x86 Macs shipped in 2006 and Apple dropped PowerPC support with 10.6 Snow Leopard in 2009.

I assume anyone who bought a Power Mac G5 in 2006 knew what they were getting into.

It sucks because from a user perspective, macOS is not really getting meaningfully better—nor does it need to at any particular pace, given its age and maturity.

If anything, I would rather them stop doing stuff like replacing a rather idiosyncratic but well-understood System Preferences panel with a half baked replacement that goes against half the Mac HIG.

If dropping support for Intel Macs meant huge performance wins for ARM Macs, or freed up the team to work on huge OS improvement I could understand it, but neither of those things seems to be true.

OpenCore Legacy Patcher

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32614135

https://github.com/dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/#opencor...

Not quite 100% on topic but useful for those with unsupported hardware.

A bunch of blobs go into OCLP, sometimes with no source, so I’m hesitant about it. Are there any projects to build everything from code that is public? (will have at least reduced hardware support though)

I wonder if the just-released Monterrey 12.6.2 fixes this

I'll just install the update myself.

As the article notes, not all models have that option. 2017-or-later is the cutoff now I believe.

Sure, take the upgrade if you can though.

Who can stop me from compiling and installing some software though?

Installing the newer versions won't make the old ones go away though, and there are presumably a lot of built-in things linking to the old versions.

Sure, you can side-load it. Stuff might break since the OS makes assumptions about the hardware.

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