I agree that it was too strong a claim. It's not supported by the developers and if you bypass their system libraries your program will break when they change things up.
Linux kernel is known to be able to run binaries compiled in the 90s. Breaking user space makes Linus yell at people until the breakage gets reverted. A platform that stable is worth building on top of. Updating executables is a lot of work, sometimes it's straight up impossible.
Linux kernel is known to be able to run binaries compiled in the 90s. Breaking user space makes Linus yell at people until the breakage gets reverted. A platform that stable is worth building on top of. Updating executables is a lot of work, sometimes it's straight up impossible.