It’s funny because that’s true that an old Linux binary is likely to have issues under Linux, but an similarly old Windows application might work better under Wine on Linux than modern Windows.
libc is actually relatively less likely, glibc is awfully conservative about changes, but there are a maze of likely service and library dependencies that were abandoned or didn’t regard backwards compatibility with the same importance.
Nope, can’t find this ancient version of libc!
You can still compile it against the modern version.
And if it’s static linked it will either run or you can ask Linus to murder someone for you.
Hmm I’ll email Linus
IT’S A BOLD MOVE COTTON, LETS SEE IF IT PAYS OFF!
It’s funny because that’s true that an old Linux binary is likely to have issues under Linux, but an similarly old Windows application might work better under Wine on Linux than modern Windows.
libc is actually relatively less likely, glibc is awfully conservative about changes, but there are a maze of likely service and library dependencies that were abandoned or didn’t regard backwards compatibility with the same importance.