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Re: RedHat Compatibility



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Hi Nick!

It's hard to see the point of your post.

Why don't you switch to Red Hat if you're so fond of it and "commercial linux 
software" that you use fails to be incompatible with debian? You might also 
want to build a subsystem for debian that will provide red hat binary 
compatibility. I don't know if such a work has commercial value though.

- From your mail, it seems that we should also drop dpkg while we're at it.

It should also be obvious that Rainer's trouble is Red Hat's fault, not 
Debian's.

About Red Hat being practically the standard: Standards are not strictly 
based on an existing (and popular) implementation. A linux standard has to be 
distribution agnostic (whatever that means). A standard tries hard to define 
the "right thing", and then implementors try harder to comply to that 
standard. 

Thanks,

- -- 
Eray Ozkural (exa) <erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr>
Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara
www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo
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