Re: [OT] Re: Troll Tech [was Re: Sco vs. IBM]

[Matthias Schniedermeyer]

On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 12:55:12PM +0000, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:
> 
> I don't give a fscking hoot through how many loops the vendor had to
> jump to make this possible. You simply can't do this with the current
> linux distributions. I just pulled out my trustworthy old RedHat 4.2
> (which was sometime released in Summer 1997; the Wayback Machine gave
> me only Mar1997 for 4.1 and Dec1997 for 5.0) and guess how many of its
> binaries still run on my RedHat-9 desktop here? 

Hmm, strang i don't have problems with historic software. I just
installed the libc5-packages and everything works fine. (SuSE & Debian.
Maybe the libc5-package(s) (is/are) missing in RedHat)

AFAIK even libc4-programms would run, if you install the necesary
librarys and setup the system youself. But as i don't have any libc4
programs anymore i haven't tried it.

Bis denn

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