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This seems backward to me. It's more likely that a new OS version will still have backward-compatible packages, and an old OS version will not support newer ver
by sp332 5y ago
This seems backward to me. It's more likely that a new OS version will still have backward-compatible packages, and an old OS version will not support newer versions of apps.
- moffkalast 5y agoWell it's both really, the most sensible version to use right now is 20.04. Not too far back for people to be dropping support, not too bleeding edge to have missing packages. 16.04 is really getting the axe right now.
- pizza234 5y agoIt's both backward and forward :) A lot of programs are dynamically linked; an older O/S may not support some newer librariers, and a newer O/S may not support older ones. While static linking solves this, a hypothetical distribution that is fully statically linked, would take a huge amount space (and memory) - definitely one order of magnitude more (potentially more - a statically linked hello world in go is something like two orders of magnitude larged than the dynamically linked one, although this is an edge case).