Erik Steffl wrote:
Ryo Furue wrote:I think one of the biggest problems for developers of commercial software for Linux is that there's no such thing as "the" Linux OS. There are simply too many combinations of the kernel version, libc version, pthreads version, etc. to support all. The consequence is usually the vendor supports only the RedHat Linux.about particular software (nptl thread library) not being available for woody: why not install it yourself? just because it's not available as debian package does not mean you cannot install it
Sure, that works for sysadmins who know what they're doing. But that's not going to work for the masses. Which means the vendor must put in extra effort to get things to work. The result is that the vendor chooses not to go down that path, and Linux remains a niche product rather than moving into the mainstream, due to lack of "developers developers developers developers . . . " (courtesy of Steve "Monkey Boy" Balmer).
I also heard from a programmer that her company develops software only forWindows because it's so uniform and ubiguitous.I don't understand it. if you (they) think that it is acceptable to buy computer with windows just to make sure that the client has OS that software company supports why wouldn't it be acceptable to buy computer with redhat linux?
You keep looking at this from the customer's point of view; the customer can do this or that. The original poster was pointing out things from a vendor's point of view. Sure the customer can deal with the headache of making things work, but the OP was saying that the vendor doesn't want to deal with the headaches. Whether he's right or wrong with his points, you're discussing two different things.
-- Kent