Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?
On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Joey Hess wrote:
> biniaries are distribution-dependant? Everything works everywhere in my
> experience.
I am just trying to draw a quick analogy.
The bottom line is this:
If the Linux distributions do not share a common filesystem layout and to
some basic degree a common set of libraries, software vendors will simply
pick one distribution as the development target and not support other
distributions. This is already happening to some extent. The distributions
that are close enough to the main target will be supported and the fringe
distributions will simply not be supported by the ISV's because it will be
too labor intensive and too small of a market to matter.
Now I think I know where Bruce was coming from now.
George Bonser
Microsoft! Which end of the stick do you want today?
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