[please use plain text for mail - mail isn't the web] On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 14:12:56 -0800, Eric Peng wrote: >I am doing some research on the Linux operating system and have a question >in regards to software running on Debian. If i have a piece of software >that runs on Red Hat, will it also run on Debian?
In general, yes. Although there have been cases in the past where a binary compiled on a Red Hat system didn't work on a Debian system (the Red Hat tools hardwired a search path for finding the dynamic X libraries which didn't work on Debian). >And can we get the source code right off the website at debian.org? Yes; see http://www.debian.org/distrib/ftplist . HTH, Ray -- UNFAIR Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of and didn't manage. See also DISHONESTY, SNEAKY, UNDERHAND and JUST LUCKY I GUESS. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
