Ryo Furue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At least, Intel supports RedHat 9.0 (or whatever version Intel > mentions. I don't remember correctly.). As long as you use that > version of RH, Intel will support you. (If you replace the kernel, > libc, or other "critial" part of the OS, your support is void, > of course.) And "most" people use RedHat anyway. (In my workplace, > all the Linux users except me use RH, it seems.) That's kind of > uniformity, isn't it? Not as uniform as Windows XP, though.
That's still not exactly uniform, and if that's Intel's support policy, they're blowfully ten years behind the times. > I suspect you miss my point. Perhaps, I wan't clear enough. Although > Unix is everywhere, it's not trivial to write a significant piece > of sotware which runs on all the major Unixes out there. No, but that isn't any reason not to try. > I don't like what MS does, either. But, that doesn't obscure the > fact from me that Windows XP is more uniform than Linuxes. The Intel > compiler which runs on RedHat doesn't run on Debian, whereas Acrobat > reader which runs on a Windows XP machine will run on another. That same copy of Acrobat Reader isn't going to run on Win98 machines still left over, either, and will be totally unrecognizable to a WinCE machine. The same piece of software will not work properly between different versions of WinCE, and in many cases, won't work on a lot of WinCE devices at all. You act like Unix is the only class of OS that suffers from extreme diversity, which could not be farther from the truth. > By the way, I know apt is much better than rpm. I'm not saying RH > is technically "better" than Debian. I'm not saying Windows XP is > better than Linux. I'm trying to explain why commercial vendors > are reluctant to develop software to run on all Linuxes, or on all > Unixes, for that matter. And if commercial developers want to pretend that Unix is an audience they can ignore just to avoid some inconveinence, that's totally fine by me and I encourage them to do it. However, my reason for encouraging them is mostly to watch them set themselves up for spectacular failure on fuckedcompany.com.
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