alt Hacker NewsWasn't there also DLL hell on Windows?
My understanding is that very old statically linked Linux images still run today because paraphrasing Linus: "we don't break user space".
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mook • last Tuesday at 7:14 PM
Unfortunately you can't really statically link a GUI app.
Also, if you happened to have linked that image to a.out it wouldn't work if you're using a kernel from this year, but that's probably not the case ;)
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> we don't break user space
The kernel doesn't break user space. User space breaks on its own.