Binary incompatibility of Linux distributions

Chan Chung Hang Christopher christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Thu May 14 14:16:25 BST 2009


John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Cybe R. Wizard <cybe_r_wizard at earthlink.net
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>> wrote:
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>> On Wed, 13 May 2009 14:44:26 -0600
>> "Karl F. Larsen" <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>  Bill Gates and Microsoft jumped around and offered Windows 3.1 which
>>> ran on top of DOS, and was pretty poor but cheaper and a lot of
>>> people bought 3.1 including me. This was before Linux.
>>>       
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> Sounder tends to get the tail end of a number of random discussions
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> For those subscribers of sounder who don't know what windows 3.1 has to the
> with binary incompatibility of Linux distributions it may be useful to give
> a link to the original discussion
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> http://www.linux-archive.org/ubuntu-user/299765-binary-incompatibility-linux-distributions.html
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> Or not. After reading that I still don't see how the jump from market share
> to desktops was made.
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>   
You should see that start then...

http://www.linux-archive.org/ubuntu-user/298923-future-ubuntu-linux-will-make-micky-oft-go-bankrupt.html



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