A disturbing excerpt from "Linux vs. Linux", by Charles Babcock,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Week,
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/20000320/tc/20000321261.html
And yet, such an optimistic outcome is not a sure thing. Minor
examples of Linux forks already exist. When Tom Stoddard, database
administrator at BFGoodrich's Avionics Division, loaded backup
software on company servers in Grand Rapids, Mich., he found an
unexpected anomaly. The software operated right off the bat on
servers using Caldera, Red Hat and Mandrake installations of
Linux. But when he tried to get it to work with a fourth version,
one called Debian, the desktop backup software from Legato Systems
failed.
The technical diagnosis: "Debian must have some libraries in a
different location than the others," he said, meaning that some
functions added by Debian to Linux cannot be retrieved in the same
fashion as those added by its rivals.
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