Compatibility Articles

• Compiling Classic UMN Gopher on Modern Linux Debian still ships with the original terminal Gopher client. It doesn’t compile out of the box on other distros, but so far I’ve figured out how to build it on Fedora and Arch with a CFLAGS change.
• Removing a Hybrid MBR from a GUID-Partitioned Disk Today I learned about hybrid MBR/GUID partition tables, where the GPT on a disk is duplicated in an MBR table for (outdated) compatibility purposes. These days it can break compatibility with Windows if you have a partition MBR doesn’t support, like a multi-terabyte filesystem.

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