Linux players bond for business software (News.com)

Posted Jun 1, 2002 4:25 UTC (Sat) by walt-sjc (guest, #394)
In reply to: Linux players bond for business software (News.com) by subhasroy
Parent article: Linux players bond for business software (News.com)

Um, applications can already be written to run on virtually all distros. Look at acrobat reader, netscape, mozilla, oracle, realplayer, xfree86, etc., etc., etc. One binary. The LSB will NOT fix things like library version issues for dynamically linked apps. An example nightmare would be the development version of Enlightenment which has a bazillion dependancies.

If you want linux easier to administer, then we DO have some work to do. Most distros have their own packaging system, unique rc scripts, configuration files (network settings... etc.) and THAT's where the larger problem lies.