Mac OS X Snow Leopard
Sign in to saveAlso known as Mac OS X 10.6, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Snow Leopard, Mac OS X v10.6, OS X 10.6
seventh major release of OS X
Key facts
- Developer
- Apple
- Os family
- Macintosh Unix
- Source model
- Closed , with open source components
- General availability
- August 28, 2009 ; 16 years ago ( 2009-08-28 )
- Latest release
- 10.6.8 v1.1 (Build 10K549) / July 25, 2011 ; 14 years ago ( 2011-07-25 )
- Update method
- Apple Software Update , physical media
- Supported platforms
- IA-32 , x86-64
- Kernel type
- Hybrid ( XNU )
- License
- Commercial software license and Apple Public Source License (APSL)
- Preceded by
- Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
- Succeeded by
- OS X Lion
- Official website
- Apple - Mac OS X Snow Leopard - The world's most advanced OS at the Wayback Machine (archived September 29, 2009)
- Tagline
- The world's most advanced operating system. Finely tuned.
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- snow leopard
- Series
- macOS
- Followed by
- Mac OS X Lion
- Follows
- Mac OS X Leopard
- Based on
- Darwin
- Developer
- Apple Inc.
- Platform
- x86-64
- Official website
- www.apple.com/it/macosx
- Motto
- Il sistema operativo più evoluto al mondo. Accuratamente messo a punto.
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- software version identifier
- 10.6.8
- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/osx-snow-leopard
- inception
- 2009-08-28
- GUI toolkit or framework
- Aqua
- copyright license
- Apple Public Source License
- update method
- Apple Software Update
- different from
- Mac OS X Leopard
- product certification
- Single UNIX Specification
- publication date
- 2009-08-28
- short name
- Snow Leopard
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Encyclopedic overview
Mac OS X Snow Leopard (version 10.6) (also referred to as OS X Snow Leopard) 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, at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference. On August 28, 2009, it was released worldwide, and was made available for purchase from Apple's website and retail stores at the price of $29 USD for a single-user license. As a result of its low price, initial sales of Snow Leopard were significantly higher than its predecessors, which had prices starting at $129 USD. The release of Snow Leopard came nearly two years after the launch of Mac OS X Leopard, the second longest time span between successive Mac OS X releases (the time span between Tiger and Leopard was the longest).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mac OS X Snow Leopard” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.