One year of postmarketOS

Posted Jun 12, 2018 12:36 UTC (Tue) by hkario (subscriber, #94864)
In reply to: One year of postmarketOS by marcH
Parent article: One year of postmarketOS

> Stable APIs are ironically a major feature of... closed-source systems (e.g. for PCs: Wintel).

you mean things like
http://www.bit-tech.net/reviews/gaming/pc/windows-7-games...
or
https://www.hardcoregames.biz/games-incompatible-with-win...
?

Yes, there are libraries that abandon ABI compatibility like it's a hot potato (looking at you libpng), but neither glibc nor Linux kernel is one of them

One year of postmarketOS

Posted Jun 12, 2018 14:07 UTC (Tue) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link] (2 responses)

> Yes, there are libraries that abandon ABI compatibility like it's a hot potato (looking at you libpng), but neither glibc nor Linux kernel is one of them

glibc isn't even used on phones. That was the point.

One year of postmarketOS

Posted Aug 13, 2018 15:59 UTC (Mon) by JanC_ (guest, #34940) [Link] (1 responses)

My phone uses glibc.

One year of postmarketOS

Posted Aug 13, 2018 19:19 UTC (Mon) by lkundrak (subscriber, #43452) [Link]

Yes, so does mine.