Mac OS X Leopard (v. 10.5)

Description

OS X 10.5 Leopard is the second-newest release of the Mac OS X operating system, succeeded in August 2009 by OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

Available to

All CCHMC employees

Compatibility

Please ensure that the software you run currently on your Mac is compatible with OS X 10.5 Leopard. Here are some links that discuss compatibility:

Information regarding select Biomedical Informatics-supported applications:

Photoshop Elements 4: NOT supported on Leopard by Adobe. Adobe is reportedly releasing the next version later this year. Information Services reports several issues with Elements after upgrading to Leopard.
Endnote: EndNote X and X1 have not shown any major compatibility issues with OS X 10.5 Leopard. The EndNote program appears to act as designed when performing all basic functions.
Filemaker: All FileMaker 9 products are now compatible with Leopard.
MacVector: The latest version, MacVector 9.5, is pretty much Leopard compatible. We tested it during development on early development releases from Apple, and we've done limited testing on the released version of Leopard. Other than a few minor issues MacVector 9.5 runs fine. The minor issues are that the fonts shown in the picture alignment view have been replaced by the new Braille font. This can be temporarily circumvented by changing the font. But if you use that particular function a lot, you might find it easier to create a "template" file with the fonts already changed and add new sequences for alignments to that.
Lasergene 7.21: Available for Leopard; however, it has not been fully tested. So far, DNA Star has not seen any issues, and will fully support Leopard in version 8 when it is released.

Need Help?

For technical assistance with other research software, email software@bmi.cchmc.org. For basic desktop support or assistance with clinical information systems, call the Cincinnati Children's Service Desk, 513-636-4100, or visit the Information Services CenterLink site. UC employees should call the UCit Help Desk, 513-556-HELP.

A note about UCit software

UC researchers are served with desktop software by UCIT. In many cases this software is licensed specifically to UC employees only (i.e., people who receive paychecks from UC) or must be run on UC-owned or controlled equipment, making it inaccessible to Cincinnati Children's personnel. Please make sure you read the license agreement carefully before you use UC software.

Faculty and students of UC are eligible to purchase software from UC. However, when purchasing from UC, the license agreement states that the software can be installed only on your personally owned or UC-owned computer and not on machines owned by other institutions. Since Children’s Hospital is a separate entity from UC, installing software purchased from UC on CCHMC owned computers is a violation of that license agreement. There is a difference in the price of software purchased from Biomedical Informatics at Children’s Hospital versus from the UC Bookstore. This difference is because UC qualifies for the educational discount whereas Children’s Hospital does not. Although Cincinnati Children’s Hospital is affiliated with UC, we are not a degree granting institution. We are a hospital, therefore we only qualify for the healthcare/non-profit discount.