On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 4:51 AM, Josh Lawrence <hardbop200(a)gmail.com> wrote:
yes, but firefox, mozilla, iceweasel, emacs, xemacs,
lucid emacs, etc.
can happily coexist on my system with no problem. in fact, I can fire
all of them up all at once.
try that with different versions of an NFS server ....
various flavors of jack on the other hand...
jack is a server plus a library. if the versions don't match, kaboom.
the other examples are either applications or just libraries. there's
not a whole lot of *nix software that consists of a server/library
pair. X11 would be the other canonical example.