upgrade mac os x 10.5 8 to snow leopard free

Much of the software in Mac OS X was extensively rewritten for this release in order to take full advantage of modern Macintosh hardware and software technologies ( 64-bit, Cocoa, etc.). Its name signified its goal to be a refinement of the previous OS X version, Leopard. Apple famously marketed Snow Leopard as having 'zero new features'. Unlike previous versions of Mac OS X, the goals of Snow Leopard were improved performance, greater efficiency and the reduction of its overall memory footprint. 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). As a result of the low price, initial sales of Snow Leopard were significantly higher than that of its predecessors whose price started at US$129. 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 US$29 for a single-user license. Snow Leopard was publicly unveiled on Jat Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference. The linked article hit my questions' topics but I did not deeply understand nor the configuration of the Apple ID on the fresh installed El Capitan nor the legal aspects of the solution.Mac OS X Snow Leopard (version 10.6) is the seventh major release of macOS, Apple's desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers.

use it to do a clean install on my iMac (erasing all disk content before choosing the HDD in which to install El Capitan).

use a Mac of a friend of mine which runs El Capitan to download El Capitan from Mac App Store.

This reading brought me to another solution: Alternative solution

Said that, after some search, I found this macworld article showing alternative methods to upgrade from 10.5.8 MacOSX version to a more recent one. use the App Store to download and install El Capitan.buy the DVD of Snow Leopard (10.6) from online Apple Store and install it on 10.5.8.

✘ MacOSX 10.6.8 is required to be installed (due to Mac App Store introduction) on the iMac Official solution (or what I undestood reading Apple website) ✔ my iMac version is listed under the upgradable devices Now I want to upgrade my OS to El Capitan (10.11). I have an iMac(Early 2009) running Leopard (10.5.8).

Upgrade mac os x 10.5 8 to snow leopard free