Hi,
>>"George" == George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
George> The bottom line is this:
George> If the Linux distributions do not share a common filesystem
George> layout and to some basic degree a common set of libraries,
George> software vendors will simply pick one distribution as the
George> development target and not support other distributions. This
George> is already happening to some extent. The distributions that
George> are close enough to the main target will be supported and the
George> fringe distributions will simply not be supported by the
George> ISV's because it will be too labor intensive and too small of
George> a market to matter.
Known issues. What do you think the FSSTND and the FHS are all
about? Debian is committed to following them. When the other
distributions start following standards, we shall have the
commonality you desire.
The software base is supposed to be the missing half of that.
I think that Debian is unlikely to be suppoerted by most
ISV's. (Ever see a thrid party .deb package? apart from the abortive
KDE set?)
manoj
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