SRIKANTH NS wrote:
Hi All,
I have a slightly quirky question. I just now downloaded 8.10 CD image
and burnt it to a CD. I have the DVD of 8.04 which contains so many
additional applicaions not found in the default CD.
My question is this: If i install Ubuntu 8.10 with the CD and the
system is running. Now if i include the 8.04 DVD in the apt -
sources.list , will it take that as a valid source and install
applications from the DVD? I am going ahead with the idea that
I do not need the bleeding edge software of 8.10 and am quite happy
with the other multimedia and miscellaneous software from the earlier
distro.
Or will it conflict?
I assume GNU/Linux will have backward compatibility but I just want
confirmation from experts in this forum.
It's a pretty bad idea to do that as things might have changed a lot
between 2 releases, especially the dependent libraries and sometimes
kernel changes as well. It might work without problems rarely, or with
some problem here and there though the software remains mostly usable,
but nothing is guaranteed to work and more importantly, if anything
breaks due to this you can't even rant about it anywhere or file a bug.
On another note, "Backward compatibility" means that the files or data
you created or used with an earlier version continues to be valid and
usable with the current or improved version. For example, it means your
site is still viewable with the browser, you documents can still be
opened and edited with the same office application, etc. It doesn't mean
your bizare combination of newer software will work with the older
libraries or vise versa.
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With Regards,
Parthan "technofreak"
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