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> Except for Microsoft, no one cares about backwards compatibility That would seem to be contradicted by Linus's "WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE"[1]. The Linux com
by Lio 4y ago
> Except for Microsoft, no one cares about backwards compatibility
That would seem to be contradicted by Linus's "WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE"[1].
The Linux community clearly cares for backwards compatibility too.
1. https://linuxreviews.org/WE_DO_NOT_BREAK_USERSPACE https://linuxreviews.org/WE_DO_NOT_BREAK_USERSPACE
- dagw 4y agoThat's "Linux" the kernel, not the operating system. No one building a 'modern' desktop OS on top of that kernel cares. Download a 20 year old Linux binary and try running it on a random up to date linux distro. Unless it's a trivial program it will almost certainly fail.
- School-Cotton 4y agoThis post is about the kernel, though.