Intel and XMir

Posted Sep 17, 2013 10:26 UTC (Tue) by dlang (guest, #313)
In reply to: Intel and XMir by dgm
Parent article: Intel and XMir

I have had a number of programs that were written for Win 95/98 that stopped working with newer versions of windows until they were updated.

i also have some very old binaries on some of my Linux systems that are still working today. Some of those are graphical apps that were written for motif (although admittedly, most are command line apps)

The fact that you are having problems with GTK+ 1.2 apps has more to say about the GTK developers than Linux overall.

You will not find me defending the backwards compatibility of Desktop Environment developers, and the fact that Gnome2 and Gnome3 could not both be insalled on the same system is a perfect example of the problem (and far from the only one, it's not limited to Gnome)