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by ryandrake 4 days ago
Man, I remember 25 years ago writing commercial software that worked across a half a dozen Linux distributions, at least two BSDs, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and Irix, and close to half a dozen CPU architectures. Yet today, developers struggle getting a build for two different versions of the same Linux distribution. The industry has lost a critical skill.