Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Mar 1999 00:40:21 -0500 | From | Arvind Sankar <> | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC]: MS Porting Office to Linux? |
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On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 07:45:20PM -0500, Mattthew D. Pitts wrote: > Guys, most people use libc5 or glibc 2.0.x if they've installed from a > distribution. I'm running Redhat 5.0, which uses glibc 2.0.5, so if Star > Office installs a newer glibc, no big deal. It's when people are at the > leading edge that these kind of bugs "byte" them. >
In other words, never upgrade because some poorly written program depends on undocumented functions and hence doesn't work with a new and better system?
This isn't windows, its linux. We move to better things even if it breaks things that _don't_ depend on undocumented features.
-- arvind
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