Among the many versions of macOS and OS X released over the years, some stand out as exceptional -- or exceptionally bad. These are our picks from Mac history.

Apple’s discussion boards have a growing number of reports claiming that user home folders are being automatically deleted when utilizing Snow Leopard 10.6’s “Guest” account login feature.

Ever thought about converting that dusty old original Macintosh in your garage into a modern Mac? Probably not, but this person did, and they have documented the entire project of converting an ...

Apple fully transitioned to 64-bit with the Mac OS X Snow Leopard release, and all subsequent macOS versions have been 64-bit.

For a release that rather resembles the way OS X Leopard was followed by a lower-key, practically maintenance update with OS X Snow Leopard, macOS Sonoma has a lot going on.

As unveiled at WWDC 2023, the updated new macOS 14 Sonoma resembles how the company followed OS X Leopard with OS X Snow Leopard in 2009.

While LegacyAI was built for Mac OS 9, there’s also a carbon version available which will run in Mac OS X up through Snow Leopard, the last Mac OS X version that supported the original Rosetta. And ...

And before that, I hacked Mac OS X Snow Leopard onto my Dell Inspiron 1525, an experience that gave me my first look into how an operating system is loaded onto a computer and how it interacts ...

Mac OS X Server remained its own totally separate version of the operating system, from the launch of that initial version through to Snow Leopard Server (version 10.6) in 2009.

Snow Leopard aimed to be a refinement of OS X 10.5 Leopard. Snow Leopard was also the first version of OS X to drop support for PowerPC computers.