Ubuntu's multisearch surprise

Posted Aug 8, 2009 2:23 UTC (Sat) by smoogen (subscriber, #97)
In reply to: Ubuntu's multisearch surprise by MattPerry
Parent article: Ubuntu's multisearch surprise

One issue with application vendors shipping stuff is they will probably only support one distribution and none of them would agree on which distribution that was. And after that many application people would not want to deal with stuff like "Oh you have an XYZ video card.. I don't so that video glitch is probably just you." [Which is basically what drives people to tell the distribution people can you package this up for me?]

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Ubuntu's multisearch surprise

Posted Aug 8, 2009 15:57 UTC (Sat) by MattPerry (guest, #46341) [Link] (1 responses)

> One issue with application vendors shipping stuff is they will probably
> only support one distribution and none of them would agree on which
> distribution that was.

The Linux Standard Base was supposed to fix this. From what I'm told, it didn't, for reasons I do not know. I still think that fixing the problems with LSB and providing a way to audit distros for LSB compliance will allow application vendors to target an binary package to a particular LSB standard which would work on any LSB compliant distro of the same LSB version.

Ubuntu's multisearch surprise

Posted Aug 8, 2009 18:31 UTC (Sat) by lmb (subscriber, #39048) [Link]

The only way to completely fix it would be to have LSB mandate everything, reducing the diversity of Linux distributions to zero. As long as there is any variation, you will have to take it into account somewhere.

Distributions aren't as much of a problem as this discussion makes them out to be.