On Sunday 23 September 2007, Barry Roberts wrote: > You still have a kernel. Some libraries (especially libc) just don't > work with other kernels. Plus there are kernel-related things that crop > up. If your program accesses USB, do you assume udev? You can't just > install it if the kernel isn't built for it.
There may be some weird corner case that I am unaware of, but from my understanding the kernel OS interface has been very stable for nearly the last decade. If you have a statically linked binary from years ago, it will still work today. This is why many commercial products ship as statically linked binaries. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
