[mdlug] Cracks in the Evil Empire

Michael Corral micorral at comcast.net
Thu Jun 28 16:14:15 EDT 2007


M. D. Krauss a ecrit:
> "Ingles, Raymond" wrote:
> > It can even be difficult to run a really old
> > Linux desktop environment on a new kernel, though Linux handles this
> > far better.
> 
> It can? I don't get it.  TWM or FVWM or whatnot are still being used by
> many people.  Maybe I am misunderstanding, can you give an example of a
> "really old Linux desktop environment"?

Sure. Triteal CDE for Linux. It doesn't work with xorg 7.2, at least on my machine (Fedora 7).
It worked with earlier versions of xorg. In general, a lot of old libc5-based apps don't work
anymore, even with the libc5-compat stuff installed. :(

Michael



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