TRY AGAIN, error running Maple 7 on Fedora 10

William M. Quarles walrus at bellsouth.net
Mon Jul 6 05:56:14 UTC 2009


Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 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.

That's not what the Fedora developers told me in the past messages about 
reverse compatibility in the kernel on this list, but even if that were 
the case, I've been able to get Maple 7 to work on older versions of 
Fedora using 2.6 kernels.




More information about the fedora-list mailing list