Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 1st Sep 2005 14:47 UTC
Some prominent figures in the Linux community believe that as enterprises increase their use of Linux on the desktop, Microsoft will be forced to consider offering a version of Office for Linux. "When the [Linux desktop] market share gets to a certain point, Microsoft will, just as it did with Apple in the past, make Office available on Linux," CEO Stuart Cohen of OSDL said in an interview. My take: Mr. Cohen is forgetting two important things: Excel was first released for the Mac (1985) and Word wasn't popular until MS ported it from DOS to Mac (1985).
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2005-06-29
Gtk 2.8 runs Gtk 2.0 code TMK.... Does anyone know of any calls deprecated since 2.0 that have been removed?
You can always do what so many things do these days: Build statically. There's nothing on Linux that says "thou shalt not build thine binaries statically." Well, except glibc: You lose platform portability with static builds against glibc.
Now, calls that are new of course aren't going to exist on systems with older versions of gtk.