On Tue, 2 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> With linux, it will say something along the lines of "works with Redhat
> 6.2". (take a look at many CAD packages, for example - they are _not_ very
> graphics intensive). Games are even trickier. I have not bought a single
> Loki game for this reason: once I upgrade to new libraries or X it will be
> dead weight. And if it crashes because of incompatibility there is little
> I can do to fix it. (And no, I am not going to waddle thru machine code to
> fix something I paid money for).

That's just not true. I still run the quake2 binary release which I first
used on Redhat 5.something on Redhat 7.1. Quake3 runs better on my Redhat
Frankenstein Roswell/Rawhide workstation than it did on Redhat 6.2.

-d

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| Damien Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \ ``E-mail attachments are the poor man's 
| http://www.mindrot.org          /   distributed filesystem'' - Dan Geer


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