> True enough, but then 6.1, 6. 2, et al are "old" and not in stores. Linux
> has moved on and it is bad business to expect that everyone will stay with
> older distros simply to play your games.
Red Hat 6.2 are still more popular than 7 wil ever be, and will likely
remain so. Red Hat fucked up *royally* with version seven, and the
reputation of Linux as a whole is suffereing now that Red Hat have a
release thats binary incompatible with ALL other distributions.
Nobody has to stay with older distros apart from Red Hat users [like my
Red Hat based workplace].
> I would have thought that compiling
> monolithic binaries would go a long way towards avoiding distro differences.
> It is foolish to believe that everyone will stick with an old version of
> glibc, for instance, and thus base a software package off this false premise.
Totally. Glibc isn't the problem. Veryhting works fine with newer
versions of glibc. *Red Hat aren't using a new version of anything.
They're using a BETA version*. That's why everyone is annoyed.
> If you want to avoid the problem, make it monolithic and avoid dynamic at
> all costs.
>
> On Sunday 14 January 2001 22:21, you wrote:
> > Did you ask Loki what versions of linux they compiled their game for. I
> > have been testing a commercial structural analysis program that is
> > certified for redhat 6.1 and 6.2. It runs under 6.2 just fine and under 7.0
> > it does some major hiccups. Next I have to try it with Mandrake, but the
> > purpose of this conversation is to let you know that all flavors of "linux"
> > are not the same. Ask the vendor and make your system comply with his specs
> > if you expect to have it run properly. Even within a revision of a given
> > distro there are problems that you have to deal with and when you expect
> > every distro to be perfect for your expectations, you set yourself up for a
> > fall - you know like gnashing teeth, grumbling, frustration, snarling,
> > smashing ....
> >
> > Tom Berkley
> >
> > Praedor Tempus wrote:
> > > Has anyone purchases Heretic II from Loki and actually managed to get it
> > > to work on Mandrake 7.2? On a 7.2 system with XFree86-4.0.2?
> [...]
>
> --
> Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain
> ----
> Praedor
>
>
