Linux Compatibility Issue

[Abdul Latip <dullatip@angin.com>]

Hello:

Once in a while, users are asking me about the compatibilty problem of
Linux. They reasoning that M$Office can be installed anywhere like
Win98, WinME, WinNT, et. al. Whereas it is hard to install a
RedHat package into Debian, and so on.

AFAIK, CMIIW, this is related with the compiler version, the glibc
version, the kernel version, and the kernel configuration and
modules. May I know what exactly the Linux compability problem
is ? I.E.:  It seems they are not so backward compatible?

Am I wrong?  May I know if there is a better explaination
about this issue?

thank you,

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