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   Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot (libreleah@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Oct-2025 20:05:41 JST Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot

   • Jane the Motherfucker

   @janethemotherfucker showed me this meme today, and it's absolutely correct, and i love it. this made my day.

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     Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot (libreleah@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Oct-2025 20:09:33 JST Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot

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     • Natanox 🇺🇦🇵🇸
     • Jane the Motherfucker

     @Natanox @janethemotherfucker unless static linking was used. linux abi stability is pretty damn good. they have a clear no-regressions policy for userspace applications.

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     Natanox 🇺🇦🇵🇸 (natanox@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Oct-2025 20:09:35 JST Natanox 🇺🇦🇵🇸

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     • Jane the Motherfucker

     @libreleah @janethemotherfucker Don't try to install an old one that isn't pre-installed on Linux though, the dependencies are loooooong gone. 😅

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Oct-2025 20:12:35 JST 翠星石

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     • Jane the Motherfucker
     @libreleah @janethemotherfucker No it isn't.
     
     Many 25 year old programs are broken on windows.
     
     GNU distro's don't ship with 25-year old software - only GNU programs that have been in development for >25 years.
     
     25 year old source code can be made to compile with some tweaks if it's any good.
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     Julius Schwartzenberg - Юліус (jschwart@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Oct-2025 20:39:00 JST Julius Schwartzenberg - Юліус

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     • Natanox 🇺🇦🇵🇸
     • Jane the Motherfucker

     @Natanox @libreleah @janethemotherfucker there are different ABIs involved in that case. Linux as in the kernel Linux has a stable ABI.
     GNU however focuses on API/source compatibility and this is reflected in the libraries you mentioned.

     GNU and Linux are often combined for a full system, but you have to consider them independently to be able to understand where choices related to ABI stability come from and the consequences of those choices.

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     Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot (libreleah@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Oct-2025 20:39:00 JST Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot

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     • Julius Schwartzenberg - Юліус
     • Jane the Motherfucker

     @jschwart @Natanox @janethemotherfucker like i said. emulation. stick a 25 year old linux distro inside an emulator and you can run 25 year old programs perfectly.

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     Natanox 🇺🇦🇵🇸 (natanox@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Oct-2025 20:39:02 JST Natanox 🇺🇦🇵🇸

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     • Jane the Motherfucker

     @libreleah @janethemotherfucker Guess I just had bad luck then. The only archaic application that happily started (with the exception of a single required but still available lib) was UT 2004, everything else always complained about wrong or missing versions of glibc, gtk2 or other stuff I absolutely could not (bother to) provide.

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     Julius Schwartzenberg - Юліус (jschwart@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Oct-2025 20:43:26 JST Julius Schwartzenberg - Юліус

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     • Natanox 🇺🇦🇵🇸
     • Jane the Motherfucker

     @libreleah @Natanox @janethemotherfucker but to your point, it should be possible to take a 25 year old distro and run it with a modern kernel. I remember I've seen instances where people did things like this.

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     Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot (libreleah@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Oct-2025 20:45:31 JST Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot

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     • Julius Schwartzenberg - Юліус
     • Jane the Motherfucker

     @jschwart @Natanox @janethemotherfucker depends on the program though. if your program is only doing user space things it should be fine.

     if it's doing stuff in kernel level that's a bit iffy

     yeah like, if it's an old driver or something, then you're a bit fucked. like say, old nvidia driver and linux still doesn't have a good free driver.

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     Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot (libreleah@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Oct-2025 20:46:21 JST Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot

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     • Julius Schwartzenberg - Юліус
     • Jane the Motherfucker

     @jschwart @Natanox @janethemotherfucker but that's what ghidra is for

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     Julius Schwartzenberg - Юліус (jschwart@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Oct-2025 22:09:46 JST Julius Schwartzenberg - Юліус

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     • Natanox 🇺🇦🇵🇸
     • Jane the Motherfucker

     @libreleah @Natanox @janethemotherfucker generally that makes sense, but I don't think your 25 year old userspace in emulation would be depending on an nvidia driver or similar non-free driver? Or I've been missing what's going on in the emulation scene :) :)