At 01:32 PM 2/10/03, you wrote:
This not entirely true. If I compile packages on RedHat 8.0, they are not going to run on 6.2 unless I statically link them with all libraries and even then they still might not work. If I were to be building packages on a faster machine for a slower machine, I would still want to be running the same distro, version and updates on both machines. I can get away with different kernels for the most part but still.And you can compile on one machine for another. So if your Caldera box is a 486/66, and your Sorceror box is an Athlon 3000+, then you can use the Sorceror box to compile the packages on the Caldera box. No, Sorceror probably won't build you an easily installable package, but it can compile from source in exactly the same manner as it would happen on the Caldera box (plus some extra steps to chroot, and stuff.). These aren't limitations on the distributions, rather on the method a person has chosen to install with.
Now I could copy the libraries, etc from a different system to some directory on my machine and tell the compiler to use these different libraries when compiling and linking but that would be a lot of extra work.
Now I haven't played with usermode linux. I could be possible that you might be able to run a different version of linux on top of another using usermode. But I really don't know.
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