Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 17:52 -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
[...]
of this code. I have apps written for Windows in 1990 and 1998 that
^^^^
still run on Windows XP today. Linux has no such concept of
But this not even holds for nearly all apps.
backwards compatiblity. Every company who has embraced it outside of
The same holds (probably) for Linux apps (given that your kernel can
start a.out). And AFAIBT by Win* driver developers even in the Win*
world you have to change your driver because of a new Win* version now
and then.
Bernd
No. BIND was has been busted between 2.4 and 2.6. Not to mention the
whole libc -> glib switchover.
It's hilarious that BSD had to create a Linux app compat lib, and the
RedHat shipped compat libs for 3 releases
as well. Not even close. Windows has won. M$ has won. Linux lost
the desktop wars and will soon loose
the server wars as well. The reason - infighting and lack of backwards
compatibility. Binary only module
breakage kernel to kernel will continue.
Jeff
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