[NTLUG:Discuss] linux & 100 Mhz Pentium

[Tom Tumelty]

with this M$ish way of doing things how is it such a popular distro of Linux?  advertising  and marketing maybe ??

Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org> wrote:Tom Tumelty wrote:
> Thanks for the information. 
> 
> Recompiling is my preference anyway.
> 
> What would cause software not to work even if recompiled?, except if redhat used some propriatary library or used some simular monkey wrench ?
> 

Yes.. exactly. Either a dependency on something (like a newer.. possibly hacked/special
library)... or just paths and such. Usually repairable. However, if it's
dependent upon a hack (for example dependent on a specific version of gcc
for example... like RH's one-off 2.96... or even library functions that
don't exist anywhere else), then you may have a much more difficult time
porting the source.


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