Sergio Brandano wrote: > Out of blue, why is that Linux now runs stable on six (6) different > platforms but commercial software like Star, Corel, Adobe and IBM, > just to mention a few, are only available for ix86? Are there any > political or technical reasons for it?
<heavily biased> Because they don't feel like paying their programers to bother to test any platform besides ia32. For a very similar theoretical reason as to why when companies generally talk about release a "Linux Version" what they really want to say is an "ia32 Redhat Compatible Version". </heavily biased> --Nelson Abramson -- Make your vote count! http://www.votenader.org
