This gets harder over time because Apple makes it deliberately hard. Then there are Mac app developers that include older versions of the OS in their target market, and have to use older tools to ensure the target range is covered. That means avoid the newest Mac tools because you can't compile for old enough targets on it. Of those, most are probably developing websites and webapps, and the only thing about the end user that matters is which browser, not which OS, let alone version.īut there are also developers writing apps that include older devices in their target. Probably most developers are not shipping code for end users to compile. So in practice, I don't have much in the way of security risks (Firefox and Linux are updated after all), but iTerm2 is probably the only vulnerable tool I use daily on the Mac side which is exposed to data from the net.Īnd so it made sense to ask, just in case. Besides, they have become very expensive, and my current one still works very well.
#CSSHX ITERM2 PRO#
The real answer for the things I want to do is to buy a new machine and keep the old one around to support older devices that it is currently doing.īut I'm in the same dilemma as other people hoping for a great new Macbook Pro (after 2015) to come on the market at a sensible price some day. (Unlike, say, Linux, where you can at least cross-compile or use chroot/containers to run old build systems.) And Apple has a very annoying habit of making it next to impossible to build things for old devices on new Macs. There are things that can't be done with much more recent MacOS, or which work significantly differently, or where the bugs have changed so introducing risks (SMBFS random file deletion, thanks Apple!). However, what I lose from updating is significant.
#CSSHX ITERM2 UPDATE#
So there isn't a strong imperative to update the host OS of my laptop.
My open windows are virtually all iTerm2 or Firefox, and almost everything that isn't a GUI is on a Linux command line somewhere. However, I don't know of good answers to the issues that prevent me from updating.įor most of my work, Linux is used in VMs and remotely (Linux in a VM on a Macbook uses much less power than Linux running natively, and side-swiping between Linux and Mac is really great). Upvoted by me because that is a sensible answer.
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