You never ran into a GLIBC version problem?

goku12 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

In the distant past, if it has happened at all. I can't recollect an instance. Perhaps the advantage of using a distro?

Wasn't there also DLL hell on Windows?

My understanding is that very old statically linked Linux images still run today because paraphrasing Linus: "we don't break user space".

	▲	SkiFire13 15 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> we don't break user space The kernel doesn't break user space. User space breaks on its own.
	▲	mook 16 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Unfortunately you can't really statically link a GUI app. Also, if you happened to have linked that image to a.out it wouldn't work if you're using a kernel from this year, but that's probably not the case ;)