Originally posted by ворот93
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Originally posted by ворот93
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Most distros have at least some mechanism to install software in binary form (in fact, this is still the most common form I believe, with things like rpm and apt-get. Normally they will install pre-compiled binaries rather than building from source).
But, as mentioned, this only works if the package was prepared in advance for that particular version of that particular distro.
With the few closed-source programs I've used on linux over the years, I found that they generally listed only 2 or 3 distros that they were compatible with, and then only specific versions of those distros.
For example, I used Kylix at one point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kylix_(software)
Furthermore, the last release of Kylix ran under now outdated versions of Linux: Red Hat Linux 7.2, SUSE Linux [Pro.] 8.0 [Kylix, ver. 2-29, Mon Mar 25 20:01:01 2002] and Mandrake Linux 8.2.
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