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That's not necessarily true, the kernel team (almost to a fault) will not break binary compatibility [1]. Paradoxically, this allows Linux to be an almost univ
by rhinoceraptor 10y ago
That's not necessarily true, the kernel team (almost to a fault) will not break binary compatibility [1].
Paradoxically, this allows Linux to be an almost universal ABI, since linux binaries can be run on FreeBSD, Illumos/SmartOS, Solaris, and even Windows.
1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/8/495 https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/8/495
- digi_owl 10y agoAnd sadly something that higher layers will glibly ignore as they race after the latest shiny, while wondering why "year of the linux desktop" has yet to happen. When software devs ask for a consistent toolkit, they are not asking for a single toolkit across the range of Linux installs. But a toolkit that is by policy stable for a decade or more on the API/ABI level.