oh i see. embedded systems makes sense. i wouldn’t even try to go beyond the factory recommendation for systems like that. maybe for fun. likely there are kernel modifications or modules that are required for those systems.
Windows doesn’t have these issues. Not that I use Windows for development stuff, but you can usually install any .exe for Windows10 on Windows 11. Even older stuff frequently still works and only sometimes requires running in compatibility mode.
It runs on embedded systems but also on “normal” computers. It’s not an OS but moreso a server/database which communicates messages between different programs.
That’s true but on Windows it’s mostly just clicking install on everything on ninite. Linux libraries sometimes can’t even install on a newer kernel.
I can usually get old Windows programs to run on newer Windows versions. On Linux I rarely had that sucess.
i’m curious where you run into this. i’ve never had this issue in 10 years of using Linux, most of which being on Arch with the latest kernel
Trying to do something like run ROS on anything but the Ubuntu distro it was made for.
Flashing an embedded board which requires Ubuntu 20.04 and didn’t accept me using 22.04
Some more stuff too but I’ve forgotten
oh i see. embedded systems makes sense. i wouldn’t even try to go beyond the factory recommendation for systems like that. maybe for fun. likely there are kernel modifications or modules that are required for those systems.
Idk it’s not just on embedded systems. For example you can’t run ros 22.04 on Ubuntu24.04 ** https://docs.ros.org/en/humble/Installation/Ubuntu-Install-Debs.html
Windows doesn’t have these issues. Not that I use Windows for development stuff, but you can usually install any .exe for Windows10 on Windows 11. Even older stuff frequently still works and only sometimes requires running in compatibility mode.
ROS is an embedded systems OS, right?
It runs on embedded systems but also on “normal” computers. It’s not an OS but moreso a server/database which communicates messages between different programs.