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> And yet I can still often run GUI programs written in 1995 on Windows 10 without recompilation. Did you try it? Often, you cannot run even programs built in
by vetinari 7y ago
> And yet I can still often run GUI programs written in 1995 on Windows 10 without recompilation.
Did you try it? Often, you cannot run even programs built in 2009 on Windows 10.
> Well, I can usually run GUI programs written for Windows in 1995 on Linux without recompilation.
You can run 1995 Linux binaries in Linux, provided a) you have the libraries they were linked against, b) they don't use direct hardware access ala svgalib c) they are not in a.out format, which was recently removed, due to nobody using it anymore.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y ago> Did you try it? Often, you cannot run even programs built in 2009 on Windows 10. Yeah, I actually do it all the time. There are some programs that don't work, particularly games, but for the most part it works fine. > You can run 1995 Linux binaries in Linux, provided a) you have the libraries they were linked against Including glibc, and take care to jump through the appropriate hoops to ensure the linker can find them because chances are they aren't in your repo.