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  • What’s the problem with running an older OSX? https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy

    I am running 10.6. Chromium Legacy is for 10.7 and above, and the same is true of a lot of software. Meanwhile, on my Linux partition, I can have Firefox Nightly if I want. It’ll run heavily, but it’s possible.

    As it happens, I do have a somewhat recent browser installed in OSX, but it’s not great.

    Also, running an older OS like that isn’t a good idea, as it won’t have received security patches or microcode updates.

    That’s the thing, you can run a 64-bit distro as long as you’ve a 32 bit grub starting it :)

    I hadn’t quite considered that somebody had implemented this. Thanks for the info!

    There was also another user who gave me a link to some software that modifies mixed-mode ISOs so that they will boot on my potato laptop.




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    6 months ago

    Well, there are two main methods of package management in FreeBSD, which (according to people who seem to know their stuff) should not be mixed.

    Packages are pre-compiled binaries, which are installed with either:

    • # pkg install <package>

      or

    • $ doas pkg install <package>

    and can be found at FreshPorts.

    Then there are ports. You have to enable this during installation. Essentially, it gives you a directory containing all of the available sources, known as the ports tree. You cd in and run the command, and it pulls in the code, compiles it, and installs. However, due to my ancient processor, I do not use ports and so have no idea what commands to actually run or even where to find the ports tree in the first place.

    Remember to check the documentation!