[GLLUG] Software Distribution

[Eduardo Cesconetto]

Why not follow Apple's Universal Binary model?
The biggest problem with Linux is that 80% of the developers thing  
"their" distro is the best one. End the flavors or reduce to a max of  
a handful and UB becomes possible.


On Feb 17, 2008, at 8:19 AM, Mike wrote:

> I agree.  It'd be nice to have some processor independant  
> executables on Linux.
>
> Clay Dowling wrote:
>> Richard Houser wrote:
>> Windows certainly has many faults, and Microsoft seems to go out of  
>> their way to make things hard (web server & database admin come to  
>> mind).  But commercial software distribution is a lot easier, and  
>> commercial software distribution is what I am interested in.  It  
>> pays my bills.  And in the Linux world, I need to package my  
>> software differently for each distribution.  That gets old pretty  
>> fast, and makes it commercially impractical.  I speak from direct  
>> experience here.
>> Clay
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