WWDC25 and Macintosh Rescue


I am now moving to a new phase with Macintosh Rescue with significant announcements from Apple. Macintosh Rescue has always intended to be an archive or museum preserving a period in software history. macOS Tahoe is officially the final version of macOS with any intel compatibility and therefor will be the final update in the macOS 15 Catalina software update catalogue; Apple have made the sue of local software update servers impossible from macOS Big Sur onwards.

The Linux hosted NetSUSLP service is still synchronising with Apple at 03:00 every morning and presumably is just over 3 years away from completing its final task. I intend to monitor the status of Apple’s Software Update service so that when catalogs for older macOS, OS X, and Mac OS X versions are shutdown Macintosh Rescue will keep those available to anyone who needs access to these updates.

In terms of my Apple hardware needs I have moved away from intel dependency early with my AFP service now running on FreeBSD hosted on an Xeon server.

All is going according to my decades long plan and operating systems end-of-life dates are lining up perfectly.


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