Can I still get OS X Mavericks

At this time, no. Apple pulled Mavericks from the App Store as soon as Yosemite was released.

Cnet download with probably be crammed with all kinds of crap. I would not trust it for anything.

Mountain Lion can still be purchased directly from Apple. However, OS X Server was also updated to be compatible only with Yosemite. I was unable to locate a Mountain Lion server version.

As Allan noted, do not for a moment trust any third party download or media version (DVD, flash drive) of Mavericks. Like illegal torrent downloads, it is almost certain to contain malware, which will install along with the OS.

You're welcome.

I never had Mountain Lion Server myself (running Lion Server for our small office needs), but the engineers who reply to posts on Adobe's forums weren't at all impressed with ML Server, noting it had some nasty bugs which made it worse than its predecessor.

Can't comment at all on Yosemite Server (OS X Server). Our older iMac can't run anything newer than Lion and its Server version, so that's where it stays.

Kurt Lang wrote:

At this time, no. Apple pulled Mavericks from the App Store as soon as Yosemite was released.

It's a shame they pulled it from the store...I have a new Mac Mini that shipped with Mavericks, so no luck finding Mavericks under the Purchases area in the MAS for me.

I for one like to have the option of building and keeping a recovery disk/USB in the event the Recovery partition goes t*ts up and now I can't easily make one.

Bad form Apple considering Yosemite is receiving a fair amount of bad press at the moment. 😝

Like many, I don't get why Apple pulled Mavericks, either. What difference does it make to them? If the thought is, "Whew! That's one less OS to support for security updates, etc.", then it's in incorrect assumption since there are, and still will be millions of Macs running Mavericks anyway.

Internet Recovery will re-install Mavericks for you since your computer shipped with Mavericks.

Eric Root wrote:

Internet Recovery will re-install Mavericks for you since your computer shipped with Mavericks.

Call me old-fashioned, but I still like having a copy of the physical media on hand...

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Unfortunately, you can't. The copy of Mavericks your Mac would install from an Internet or normal Recovery mode method is machine specific. The App Store version, even if you could get it, would refuse to install since the drivers for your hardware wouldn't be part of the upgrade release.

I have a copy of the installer and can email a download link... if Apple will allow this ?

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That would be illegal as the OS license is not transferable.