> The difference in libs between RH7.3 (MDK 8.2 time) and now are so great > as to make a number of older compiled binaries choke. The biggest > difference is that RH7.3(MDK8.2) is compiled with gcc2.9x and now it's > gcc3.x The incompatibility is there. Remember that the distro's aren't > Linux, but rather packagers of Linux. So they are subject to the > problems there.
Of course we're talking of Linux as a distro, not the kernel. Well, this kind of slight (or not slight?) backwards incompatibility has always been a bit of disappointment. And frankly, redhat 7.3 lives on my /dev/hda4 just to run than juno6!!! :-) But hey - there are at least 300 _known_ distros, so what can you do... Oh - 300 and one! I just remembered that I recently made my own Linux from scratch on a 128 MB FlashIDE disk :-) And, by the way, my installer is very fast and simple: dd /mnt/cdrom/disk.img /dev/hda1 :-) Artemio.
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