Backward Compatability?

[Alfred]

Hi:

I read the posts about Backward Compatibility, and understood what was
being said. About that each version, has software tailored just for it.
So I put 6.06-1 LTS on that older machine. This is the long time service
version. This took about 7 hours to get it all installed, and ready to
roll. This handicapped person is now making use of that older 433 MHz
Computer. 

I may reconfigure the X server one day soon, because when I was
installing the 6.06-1 I used my Monitor, instead of the Dell, that he
had. It's working pretty good, but a few things stopped working, when I
put his monitor on the system.

Alfred!

On Sat, 2007-06-01 at 10:10 -0800, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> On 1/6/07, Francois-Denis Gonthier <neumann at lostwebsite.net> wrote:
> > On Saturday 30 December 2006 19:18, Alfred wrote:
> > > Hi: I have a number of DVDs of all the software on LTS 6.06-1
> > > Repositories. Is this software backwards compatible with Ubuntu 5.10?
> > > Or do I need to download software made for 5.10, separately. I have a
> > > very slow Internet Connection. It takes hours just to download one
> > > program, of moderate size.
> > >
> > > Alfred!
> >
> > It is unlikely any of those packages will work.  They are probably linked with
> > a different glibc version and so it's unlikely any will want to install
> > without fully updating the system.  Forcing the package to install is
> > possible but painful and does not offer any guarantees.  You might break your
> > old system doing that also.
> >
> > I suggest you upgrade your old systems, or stick with the old repositories.
> 
> 
> one thing to remember is that 5.10 (released in October 2005) is only
> officially supported for 18 months.  So it will reach its official
> end-of-life (i.e., no more security updates) sometimes around April.
> 
> Since you already have the 6.06-1 DVD, you might think about upgrading
> that 5.10 computer sooner than later to 6.06.
> 
> Daniel
> 
> -- 
> Daniel Robitaille
>