Good as well as bad news for Microsoft on the legal front. Their good news is that a judge has rejected Go Computing's claim that Microsoft used dirty tricks to keep it out of the operating system market. However, their bad news is that an EU committee ruled on Monday that Microsoft failed to comply with a landmark antitrust decision, paving the way for fines of up to 2 million euros a day, a source familiar with the situation said.
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Member since:2006-03-28
>Oh, and I see you answered about programs running on different distros, but what about 1.x programs running on current kernel?
Again: programs are not depend on kernel, they depend on other staff (mostly on libraries).
GUI: You can still easily run GTK1.x programs on newest GNOME. Audacity for example. Other stuff is linked with Desktop Environments, and they are the part of it. And surely. There's no cases when u use Koffice 1.5 on KDE1.x, cause they bundled together, and upgraded together when DE is upgraded.
Member since:2006-07-04
Yes, but if I'm using Ubuntu (for example) with Gnome, can I still run KDE programs (any of them) without too much config?
All I'm saying is that you have a greater chance of a Windows program running on different versions and on different machines that you do a Linux (GUI) program.
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2006-07-04
OK - maybe for console programs, but I'm talking more along the lines of GUI programs (because I think we can all admit that 99% of users use a GUI).
In that case, you'd better hope that your Gnome install will run that KDE program, and that all the other little dependencies are installed.
And as for 16-bit programs - not at all! Just ran an old 16-bit copy of SimTown (used to love it ;-) and my computer was only at 1% (which was actually taken up by Task Manager itself).
16-bit programs only use processing power if they're actually doing something (true of any program though).
EDIT: Oh, and I see you answered about programs running on different distros, but what about 1.x programs running on current kernel?
Edited 2006-07-04 06:30