On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 16:09:17 -0700,
Alan Evans <ame.fedora(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Apple is essentially single-platform and Microsoft at least tries to
keep things backward-compatible. The Linux kernel devs seem, at least
to the uninitiated, to have some kind of animosity to the very idea of
ABI compatibility.
Witness VMWare basically recompiling itself every time the user
updates his kernel. No game developer wants that kind of headache.
That applies to device drivers, not user space. Differing library versions
and limitations of graphics support are more likely to be an issue than
the kernel.