Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR
by Wowfunhappy on Sunday January 12, 2020 @10:04AM
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What type of system is this? I appreciate the sentiment but I’m surprised you manage to pull it off seemingly easily. You don’t run into software compatibility issues?
(I’m trying to do something similar by downgrading to an old version of macOS more-or-less permanently, because I don’t like where the platform has gone.)
Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR
by nils-m-holm on Sunday January 12, 2020 @01:27PM
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I am running various flavors of BSD, mostly FreeBSD and OpenBSD. The only compatibility issues are with web sites that require the latest browsers.
> praying my Python and other projects survive [...]
And this is exactly why I never update. Every 10 years or so I go through the pain of installing a new version of the OS, mostly because the browser no longer works on most websites. But then, now that the web becomes more and more uninteresting to me, I might as well keep the current version until the hardware breaks down.
Security? Sure, but not at the cost of ruining half of my installed software on a regular basis!
If there was a statically linked version of BSD, I would switch to it in the blink of an eye.