On 27/03/2008, Paul Johnson <baloo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > > (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... Yeah, I mean of course proprietary binaries. Bad things. (If there were more of them there would probably be Linux compatibility layers for Linux. Much as FreeBSD does binary compatibility with various previous versions of FreeBSD.) - d.
