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Re:A Look into CBL-Mariner, Microsoft’s Internal Linux Distr... by sudosysgen on Sunday July 11, 2021 @09:33PM (#27806011)
DKMS and driver segmentation enables 10 year old drivers to mostly still work on Linux too.
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Re:A Look into CBL-Mariner, Microsoft’s Internal Linux Distr... by gsich on Sunday July 11, 2021 @10:36PM (#27806350)
Yes. Sometimes those old drivers can't be compiled with newer headers.
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Re:A Look into CBL-Mariner, Microsoft’s Internal Linux Distr... by sudosysgen on Monday July 12, 2021 @08:08AM (#27809437)
And sometimes old drivers won't work on Windows 10.
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