> But you can probably still find static binaries compiled in the late 1990's that will run on modern Linux. ABI wise, the Linux kernel is functionally backward

> But you can probably still find static binaries compiled in the late 1990's that will run on modern Linux. ABI wise, the Linux kernel is functionally backwards compatible, and that's nothing to idly dismiss. This would be one of my big objections to systemd - I seem to have gone from a very decoupled kernel userland (eg I can boot almost any media and then chroot into my system) to one where the kernel version and systemd are pretty tied together making things more difficult.