![]() If I were to put on my Sysadmin hat, I would suggest to that making use of tools such as may be of some use, having previously utilized similar tools such as to run more recent macOS releases on hardware considered officially unsupported by Apple. I was then, rather deeply misled about what my research would result in and not too happy when I eventually learned of the results. I've already been tasked by at least one past employer (The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment) to recreate prior art older than any of the aforementioned hardware or OSes to help attorneys at Alphabet Inc./Google invalidate spurious patents, but to suggest that how I was treated in such regards was inequitable, would be an understatement. PPC from Apple) with relative aplomb and have far fewer developer resources or funding (OpenBSD did not even meet their modest fundraising goal for 2022 and their 2023 goal is set at a mere $350,000 which arguably: is lower than the annual salary of some technocrats in this industry with far fewer accolades to show for it), I think that what you are really communicating with such sentiments is that you and your team don't want to expend the energy or resources. While I acknowledge that Apple and Alphabet Inc./Google are for profit entities, given that libre/free open source projects such as OpenBSD support even older hardware (e.g. This seems disingenuous at best, in checking MacPorts the go port (last updated approximate one week ago) port health reports that the CI/buildbots are reporting no errors going all the way back to OS X version Lion: I came here via the travesty that is the "telemetry transparency" thread elsewhere. More generally, the criteria are documented at. People trying to keep old Mac hardware running will be able to continue to run the older Go distributions. We have limited developer bandwidth, and keeping Go working on current macOS is difficult enough. If Apple is no longer issuing security updates and fixes for the OS, then it doesn't make sense for Go to keep trying to support it either. The existence of old hardware is not sufficient to justify investing time into keeping Go running on these old systems. I know that a lot has to be taken into consideration but I wanted to add more details about how much hardware like this is available and what people might be using it for. There are numerous videos on YouTube about using 20 Mac Minis (and even more about using mid 2012):Īnyway, if GoLang stops supporting this hardware then these would no longer viable for testing and/or running newer Go code on macOS, albeit an earlier O/S version. ![]() (And that doesn't count MacBooks or iMacs.) Older Mac Minis are an excellent machine for someone who can't afford to buy a new Mac and needs to set up as a home server for macOS-related work. Here is some additional information to support the hardware argument.Ĭurrently on eBay there are over 300 Mac Minis from mid 2010 and mid 2011 and a quick eyeball makes it seem like they can be had for less than US$100. I too would like to see support for High Sierra continue.
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