Subj : Re: Open Source Leaving Microsoft Sitting on the Fence?
To   : comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux
From : steve_schefter
Date : Mon Jul 26 2004 09:06 am

floyd@barrow.com (Floyd L. Davidson) wrote in message news:<87r7r2zdu9.fld@barrow.com>...
> Clearly there *can* be products which will run on virtually
> *every* Linux distribution!  For that matter, there are products
> which run not only on Linux, but also on virtually every Unix,
> and even on a few non-Unix platforms too.
> 
> Think in terms of say, gimp.  Or X.

It depends on your perspective.  Life is less fragmented in the
application space.  And where variations exist in user space or kernel
interface, people have done work to ensure that their fragment is supported
by the popular applications.

But I write kernel modules and install scripts.  I ran into issues just 
with SuSE Standard Server 8.0 (Linux) being different from SuSE Linux 8.0.

I'm not saying that I prefer Windows or that I have a solution to
the problem.  Nor am I saying that I wished the only Linux in the
world was (pick one) Red Hat.  But the fragmentation is there just
the same and it is an issue for those of us that have add-on products.

      Steve

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