On Mon, 12 Nov 2018, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
So I see; well, it's served me well for nine years... I only upgrade
hardware when forced to, so I guess it's time to put some of my pension
aside for a MacBook Air or something.
There are usually ways of shoehorning newer operating systems into
unsupported older systems, at the expense of some performance problems
or other issues.
Sure, but after trying to upgrade to High Sierra twice (failing with
different errors each time; the first was something about incompatibility,
and the second was a critical file missing), I don't really feel like
going through it all over again with Mojave. Besides, the hardware is
slowly dying on me; the audio chip is dead (I'm using either USB or BT as
takes my fancy), the optical drive is damaged, the (replacement) battery's
lifetime can be measured in minutes, and the system drive is external USB,
so portable it ain't.
For the record, I've been running this thing ever since Snow Leopard,
faithfully updating all the time.
I'm happy to wait for better hardware and continue to run Sierra in the
meantime. As it is, I'm also holding off on upgrading my FreeBSD-10
server to FreeBSD-11 until I get a somewhat newer box (the current one is
well over 10 years old, and some of its electrolytic capacitors are
starting to bulge which is a sign of imminent failure), and am also
looking at upgradinf my Debian box from 8 to 9.
Thanks for the suggestion anyway.
-- Dave
