Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #63138, comment 10


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Jun 25, 2021, 2:32:24 AM (3 years ago)
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kencu (Ken)
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  • Ticket #63138, comment 10

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    1 You can get extra mileage for your older Apple system using MacPorts... at the moment, however, increasingly software needs either features in a newer libc++ or features in a newer SDK, and that can be a difficult problem.
     1Re: your question about getting extra usage from your 10.9 system.
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     3Off topic for this ticket, but I'll answer here...
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     5You can get extra mileage for your older Apple system using MacPorts, and MP is well set up for that ... at the moment, however, increasingly software needs either features in a newer libc++ or features in a newer SDK, and that can be a difficult problem.
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    37You can also install Ubuntu Linux on Apple systems back to at least a MacBook 2,1 from 2006, and run the absolutely most current LibreOffice, qt6, rust, go, wine, and everything else you can imagine on it that way --- not to be forgotten as a possibility. I have a laptop that dual-boots MacOSX 10.7.5 and Ubuntu 20.10, and I find it is in Ubuntu mode 98% of the time these days.