MacOS 11 is the new minimum system version for running Second Life ???

[Damron Skytower]

I saw the post that said "MacOS 11 is the new minimum system version for running Second Life." I'm a Mac user. I would like to know what MacOS 11 is? I am on MacOS Ventura about to upgrade to MacOS Sonoma. So what is MacOS 11?

[Madelaine McMasters]

From Wikipedia...

If you select "About This Mac" from the Apple menu, you'll see your OS version number.

Edited January 24 by Madelaine McMasters

[Damron Skytower]

Really? So they actually call it that. I don't remember seeing that before now. Thank you.

Edited January 24 by Damron Skytower

[Madelaine McMasters]

16 hours ago, Damron Skytower said:

Really? So they actually call it that. I don't remember seeing that before now. Thank you.

MacOS has always been numbered, starting with System 1.0 in 1984.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Mac_OS

With the return of Steve Jobs in 1997, the Mac transitioned to the NeXT inspired Mac OS X in 2001.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS

In 2002, Apple started using big cat names to make Mac OS X releases more easily memorable and distinguishable. They ran through all the suitable cats by 2013, and switched to scenic points of interest in California with OS X 10.9. Note the progression from "System Software" to "Classic Mac OS" to "Mac OS X" to "OS X" to "macOS".

I patiently await MaddyOS "Port Washington".

[Love Zhaoying]

53 minutes ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

MacOS has always been numbered, starting with System 1.0 in 1984.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Mac_OS

With the return of Steve Jobs in 1997, the Mac transitioned to the NeXT inspired Mac OS X in 2001.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS

In 2002, Apple started using big cat names to make Mac OS X releases more easily memorable and distinguishable. They ran through all the suitable cats by 2013, and switched to scenic points of interest in California with OS X 10.9. Note the progression from "System Software" to "Classic Mac OS" to "Mac OS X" to "OS X" to "macOS".

I patiently await MaddyOS "Port Washington".

At least they didn't name each after random chocolate products, like Android OS.

[AmeliaJ08]

I'm in the camp of refusing to refer to OSX as MacOS... grrr.

MacOS to me goes to version 9.2 and everything after it is OSX. Now get off my lawn despite the X presumably meaning 10... which means version 11 should be OSXI... oh gosh I see the problem now.

I just think OSX was a nice way of specifying the nice unixy Macintosh operating system and not the cludgy mess that came before it but of course maybe that isn't necessary now since it isn't the 90s any more.

 

 

 

Edited January 25 by AmeliaJ08

[Katherine Heartsong]

3 hours ago, AmeliaJ08 said:

I'm in the camp of refusing to refer to OSX as MacOS... grrr.

MacOS to me goes to version 9.2 and everything after it is OSX. Now get off my lawn despite the X presumably meaning 10... which means version 11 should be OSXI... oh gosh I see the problem now.

I just think OSX was a nice way of specifying the nice unixy Macintosh operating system and not the cludgy mess that came before it but of course maybe that isn't necessary now since it isn't the 90s any more.

I refer to mine as Apple II. Now get off my lawn.

[Aishagain]

I don't have a lawn, we only do mud here.  Any offers on MudOS?