TRY AGAIN, error running Maple 7 on Fedora 10

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Mon Jul 6 03:46:48 UTC 2009


On Sun, 2009-07-05 at 22:20 -0400, William M. Quarles wrote:
> I don't see what 
> the point is of making Linux (i.e. specifically the kernel) 
> reverse-compatible if the GNU distributors (e.g. The Fedora Project) 
> don't allow GNU to be so.

AFAIK Linus refuses to guarantee binary backwards compatibility for the
kernel, to allow him to change APIs when he feels it necessary.

poc




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