Comment Re:same same. (Score 1) 213
Old software generally still works too, i have stuff that was written for VAX systems that can still successfully compile and run on today's linux machines.
The Linux kernel is pretty good at keeping userland compatibility. In some cases the old libraries will be missing from newer distributions but there's nothing stopping you from bundling old libraries up with your old apps if that's what you need to do.
For anything with source code it's often not much more than a recompile.