On 2009-04-07, Alan Cox <[email protected]> wrote: >> several mission-critical applications that has seen two and a half >> decades of development based on Xlib. (... with all the assumptions > > Commiserations but at least Xlib today is back compatible. Try a 25 year > old windows app and weep.
Try a 5 year old Linux program binary on a recent OS -- and weep. Try a less-than-year old Linux OS with a recent program binary -- and weep Try the 8-year-old Windows XP, and a recent program binary -- no problems. -- Stop Gnomes and other pests! Purchase Windows today! _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
