-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 27 March 2008 07:39:22 am David Gerard wrote: > ... try getting old Linux binaries to work in a current Linux. It's > actually harder. > > http://secretlondon.livejournal.com/447659.html > > (Windows is all about binary compatibility, but Linux is expressly not > - it's all about *source* compatibility. So old programs are more > likely to work by running the Windows version in Wine.) Assuming you don't have the source. If you have the source, odds are you go ./configure then make whatever, grab some coffee and hopefully all went well and compiled by the time you get back... - -- Paul Johnson baloo@xxxxxxxxx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH7ADRUCxPKZafKh0RAvj6AKC8SQ7UrbjWvFvyWpvQFkpbB0k3bQCffG1+ nvbl4Vgg9BhYHND/bprOOgM= =a8+O -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
