Re: Size of the MonthCalendar
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Jun 28, 2013
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Binaries on Linux are really not easy to handle
For dynamically linked binaries, I would agree. But, dynamically linked binaries are not easy to handle anywhere.
Let say it like this,for an 'normal user' it is easier to run an old program on windows than on Linux
I can take a copy of /bin/ls or /bin/cp from a RedHat 6.0 distro and run it on Ubuntu Jaunty without any issues.
Of course, things get more complicated when many libraries are involved. Most windoze apps dealt with this in the past by bundling everything they needed together, leading to DLL hell.
On Linux/GNU the philosophy is different. Instead, the distro is suppose to maintain the program, and provide a seamless upgrade when necessary.
Both approaches have their respective upsides and downsides.
Applixware seems to be bound to the Linux Installation that|s on the CD *Suse 5.x
Sorry to hear that. Of course, different applications will have varying levels of success. YMMV.
I just want to say, not everything on Windows is bad becouse it want work anymore after 10 years
WindowsWasher (a 3.1 program that was sort of a spiritual predecessor of TweakUI, designed to check for and fix various inefficiencies) would run on 95 but it had all kinds of issues (like not being able to show more than 2GB for a hard disk's size). TweakUI can crash on Windows 8. If you attempt to run Visual Studio 2005 under Windows 7 64bit, you get a warning that there are known problems with running that application under that OS. Some games for older versions of Windoze don't run on their modern counterparts unless one resorts to the extreme measure of using binary patches on the machine code (e.g. http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=315982 )
Nevermind trying to run anything that requires a custom VxD.
Conversely, I found it easy to install and run an over 10 year old version of corel wordperfect for linux(/gnu) under a modern distro.
There are cases where 10 year old apps will work out of the box with modern versions of Windoze. There are cases where 10 year old apps will not work out of the box with modern versions of Windoze.
Likewise, there are cases where 10 year old apps will work with Linux/GNU, and cases where they won't.
I just want to say it is not better on an other *here Linux( OperatingSystem(
I think there actually are differences between different distros, based on the level of support they give.
