Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 10th Sep 2007 21:01 UTC
It does not happen every day that news related to computer technology - news we report on every day - makes its way to the headline news programs and newspapers here in my home country, The Netherlands. So when it does, I am usually on the edge of my seat, simply because it offers an interesting glimpse into how 'normal' people perceive our little world. The last few days, however, that casual interest has made way for something else - tooth gnashing irritation.
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Member since:2007-02-17
Sure, if you can find someone who will do it free or really cheap or are willing to pay for it.
If it is important to you to be able to run an old program (for which you have source) on a new OS that you have, then it shouldn't be hard at all to find someone both willing and able to compile it for you. If it is that important to you, you should be quite happy to pay that person a reasonable rate for their time. It doesn't take all that long to compile a program.
Or you could keep your old versions of your OS around via VMWare too.
Cheaper & easier by far to get someone to compile your source code for you.
Edited 2007-09-11 04:03
RE[6]: Linux vs Windows
by sappyvcv on Tue 11th Sep 2007 04:45
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Member since:2005-07-06
RE[5]: Linux vs Windows
by dylansmrjones on Tue 11th Sep 2007 06:34
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Member since:2005-10-02
Sure, if you can find someone who will do it free or really cheap or are willing to pay for it.
It's actually pretty common. Take a look at X-Chat for windows. See how many unofficial versions there are, all with a nice installer - and guides to building it on Windows - with MS Studio (2003/2005) btw.
If there is a market (read: need) for it, somebody will be doing it. And not necessarily for money. Just like there is a "gazillion" of good freeware applications, there is also a "gazillion" of binaries ready to be installed.
But again. The whole claim about lacking binary compatiblity across Linux distributions is a hoax (and Eugenia knows this). I have several binary proprietary products installed on my gentoo box. The packages are not compiled specifically to my system, but works none-the-less as they should. Skype, Opera, Adobe Flash Player, Americas Army, the nVidia driver. I also have some applications installed from Fedora. Binary packages. Work fine.
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2005-07-06
Sure, if you can find someone who will do it free or really cheap or are willing to pay for it.
Or you could keep your old versions of your OS around via VMWare too.