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Alan Cox https://plus.google.com/115250422803614415116/posts/hMT5kW8LKJk https://plus.google.com/115250422803614415116/posts/hMT5kW8L... > However it's not an
by qznc 10y ago
Alan Cox https://plus.google.com/115250422803614415116/posts/hMT5kW8LKJk https://plus.google.com/115250422803614415116/posts/hMT5kW8L...
> However it's not an Open Source disease its certain projects like Gnome disease - my 3.6rc kernel will still run a Rogue binary built in 1992. X is back compatible to apps far older than Linux.
- digi_owl 10y agoDo wonder if that claimed X compatibility holds up with recent Xorg versions, as they seem to enjoy ripping out code these days...
- throwanem 10y agoA couple years back I managed to get Open Genera talking to a reasonably modern (ca. 2013) X server, which has to count for something. In fact, getting it talking to the X server was practically the only aspect of the project in which I didn't have problems. Too, when I decided in a (thankfully transient) fit of madness to write my own window manager targeting whatever x.org package you got with Debian jessie around Q4 2015, I managed to do so based almost entirely on what I gleaned from a partial set of ancient X manuals which were already yellowing and musty when I picked them up at my city's free book exchange years ago, plus the manual and info pages that came with the system and the Emacs build I put on it. Not what you'd call an exhaustive evaluation, and maybe things have changed, but I'd say there is at least anecdotal reason for hope with regard to backward compatibility in X.org.