[keithpeter]

Yes, I see the point being made in the original article. I tend to use LTS Ubuntu and conservative distributions (currently PUIAS) and so see a slower rate of change.

Another Hacker News thread is discussing the new release of Audacity.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3714766

and it occured to me that I would like to try to compile a statically linked build of Audacity that could work on any version of GNU/Linux from Ubuntu 12.04 down to (say) CentOS 5.7. Just a big binary blob that I could copy and run.

How would I find out how to do this? I've compiled little things before (dwm window manager, qalculate)