[Macpartners] Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" Update - Recommendation to Wait

[Patrick McNeal]

Good Morning,

Information Services & Technology (IS&T), in collaboration with  
members of the MIT community, continues to evaluate and test Mac OS X  
10.5.

Our recommendation remains unchanged.  IS&T still recommends that  
Macintosh users WAIT to upgrade and continue to use Mac OS X 10.4  
"Tiger".

WHY CONTINUE TO WAIT?
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Though some initial issues with 10.5 have been resolved, there are  
still some products critical to productive and safe computing at MIT  
that have not been fully certified, specifically: TSM 5.5, SAPgui 7.10  
and VirusScan 8.6.  Users who rely on these applications are  
especially advised not to upgrade until updates are released.

IS&T is actively working on release-versions of these applications  
that support 10.5 and will update the MIT community as they become  
available.  For more information, and a list of other known issues and  
workarounds, please see:

http://mit.edu/swrt/releases/macosx/#issues

LIMITED SUPPORT
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The IS&T Computing Help Desk continues to provide limited support on  
getting connected to MITnet and basic configuration issues for new  
machines arriving with Leopard preinstalled.  More in-depth support  
will be available as supported application issues are resolved.

LICENSING
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On December 4, 2007, IS&T made Mac OS X 10.5 available for early  
adopters among MIT faculty and staff.  For more information and to  
obtain licenses and download the software, visit IS&T's Mac OS X 10.5  
distribution site at:

http://macosx.mit.edu

If you have any questions regarding licensing or the Leopard Download  
Site, please direct them to vsls-help at mit.edu.

GETTING HELP
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If you need help in getting connected to MITnet or basic configuration  
setup, please contact the
Computing Help Desk at (617) 253-1101 or send email to <computing-help at mit.edu 
 >.

Any questions about Leopard can be sent to macosx-release at mit.edu.

Thanks,

Patrick

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Patrick McNeal
Macintosh Platform Coordinator - Software Release Team
Client Support Services, Information Services and Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
N42-250E Cambridge, MA 02139
+1 617 253-0196
mcneal at mit.edu