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LSB Not EnoughLSB Not EnoughPosted Sep 14, 2004 8:05 UTC (Tue) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)In reply to: LSB Not Enough by hppnq Parent article: Bruce Perens: the Linux colonel talks (vnunet)
each distro is different enough to be a seperate flavor, and frequently each release of a distro is enough different from previous releases to count as a seperate flavor. with commercial Unix vendors there is less variation between different releases then there is between different linux distro releases (so binaries compiled for Solaris 2.6 still work on Solaris 10, but try to take a binary compiled for RedHat 7 and make it work on Fedora Core2)
it's the same problem as supporting multiple Unix vendors and the software companies don't support all variations on Unix, they support a small handful of them, and in Linux they only support a small handful as well (mostly RedHat releases historicly)
One problem that Linux has along these lines is that it changes faster then the competeing OS's do. that makes the newer linux systems far better, but it makes it harder for the software vendor (even if they only support a single distro)
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