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Mac OS X Snow Leopard (version 10.6) (also referred to as OS X Snow Leopard [10]) is the seventh major release of macOS, Apple's desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers. Snow Leopard was publicly unveiled on June 8, 2009 [ 11 ] at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference .
Mac OS X Snow Leopard was released on August 28, 2009, the last version to be available on disc. Rather than delivering big changes to the appearance and end user functionality like the previous releases of Mac OS X , the development of Snow Leopard was deliberately focused on "under the hood" changes, increasing the performance, efficiency ...
In 2009, Apple announced at WWDC that Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard would drop support for PowerPC processors and be Intel-only. [135] Rosetta continued to be offered as an optional download or installation choice in Snow Leopard before it was discontinued with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. [136]
Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6), released in August 2009, was the first version of Mac OS X (later macOS) to require a Mac with an Intel processor, ending operating system support for PowerPC Macs three years after the transition was complete.
Mac OS X Server 10.5 – also marketed as Leopard Server; Mac OS X Server 10.6 – also marketed as Snow Leopard Server; Starting with Lion, there is no separate Mac OS X Server operating system. Instead the server components are a separate download from the Mac App Store. Mac OS X Lion Server – 10.7 – also marketed as OS X Lion Server
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, and Mac OS X 10.7 Lion installed X11.app by default, but from OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion on Apple dropped dedicated support for X11.app, with users being directed to the open source XQuartz project (to which Apple contributes) instead.
Screenshot of OS X Leopard 10.5 Server. Leopard Server (released October 26, 2007) sold for $999 for an unlimited-client license. [9] Mac OS X Server version 10.5.x ‘Leopard’ was the last major version of Mac OS X Server to support PowerPC-based servers and workstations such as the Apple Xserve G5 and Power Mac G5. Features: RADIUS Server.
It included the retail discs for Mac OS X 10.5.6 Leopard, iLife '09, and iWork '09. This was commonly called "Mac Box Set '09". The next release started shipping shortly after Mac OS X Snow Leopard was introduced. The only thing that changed in this release was that the Mac OS X version was 10.6.3 Snow Leopard.