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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/21/2014 05:57 PM, Ralf Mardorf
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<pre wrap="">On Tue, 2014-01-21 at 17:11 +0000, Filipe Coelho wrote:
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<pre wrap="">What about all the freeware software I see in Windows/OSX?
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Those will only run on special versions. They provide binaries for e.g.
98se/XP or Vista etc.. There are no different startup processes, no
different desktop environments, etc. pp..</pre>
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That's why I'm planning to do a small, *developer*-oriented tutorial
on how to get the most "generic" binaries possible.<br>
Something that can work as widely as possible.<br>
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Have you not ready my first post at all?<br>
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<pre wrap="">My iPad 2 more often crashes, then it's working and there's no official
way to downgrade to a working state, resp. to restore from a backup,
Linux does provide ways to downgrade and to restore from backups.</pre>
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tablets are a different ecosystem, we should ignore it here.<br>
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The desktops systems usually have a way to downgrade - just
uninstall your current version and install the previous one.<br>
A good example of this is uTorrent. Users are not happy with the
last releases (includes ads and bloated features), so they download
and install an older version.<br>
Having different versions of an app it's not unique to Linux.<br>
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PS: I'm ignoring the rest of your post, it doesn't seem to me to
have anything to do with the matter at hand.<br>
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