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Story: Windows dominance to last 'two to four years'

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Posted by: Chris Rankin (Wednesday 17 November 2004, 9:25 PM)

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Why should backwards compatibility be a problem for Linux? How many users will have their own custom kernel modules that will need keeping in sync with the main kernel tree? The userspace API (libc) doesn't break between kernel versions, and that's what counts.

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