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Linux code might be backwards compatible, but nothing like windows. I can run pbrush.exe taken from Windows 95 on windows 10, and it works fine. Want to run a 1
by efreak 6y ago
Linux code might be backwards compatible, but nothing like windows. I can run pbrush.exe taken from Windows 95 on windows 10, and it works fine. Want to run a 10yo binary on Linux? It's easier to set up a VM with a 10yo Linux release on it. You've hot the source code and you can compile it? Well, tough, the build tools have changed, and some autoconf script has been removed, even from autoconf-archive.
- Craighead 6y agoThis is a bad take, there are immeasurable numbers of binaries from even Windows 98 or Windows 7 that dont run on Windows 10.
- dekhn 6y agoActually, I've kept an ancient statically compiled Mathematica (linux) binary from 2000 and it actually still runs. I had to make some symlinks since X11 font paths have changed. That's a full GUI app with a sophisticated internal kernel. This should be generally true of any well-compiled static binary on linux from 20 years ago.