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On 5/10/05, Sid Boyce <sboyce@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
I very much doubt you'd get the various distros to agree a standard way of doing things, UnitedLinux was the one hope, but now it's every distro for itself, trying to relive the Unix experience for sure -- lemmings are destined to forever walk off cliffs and die. The kernel is the one strand that's stopping a proper set of forks. What we need is a set of interoperability checks and certification that a standard application set will run across all distros and a distro is not shipped until it's certified. Some weeks ago I downloaded a RedHat/Fedora source rpm which built and installed fine on SuSE 9.2, it just didn't run. You also saw my example of trying to install the Mandriva version of cooledit on SuSE 9.3. Look at http://www.skype.com/products/skype/linux/ to see the nonsense that Skype has to go through for each distro, at least a number of distros had the good sense to base themselves on Debian, possibly one reason why Munich went Debian after SuSE/IBM had done all the hard work. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux for all Computing Tasks
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It must also have the effect of stopping hardware manufacturers from producing drivers for Linux. This is something that I hadn't really thought of before but it makes a bit of sense. But, just to contradict myself the same manufacturers have had to produce very different drivers for the various flavours of M$ software over the years. Some have drivers for 9* series, Win2k and XP. I'm sure Linux drivers would not have to be that much different. Or am I wrong in this assumption? -- Take care. Kevan Farmer 34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR