[Info-vax] openvms and xterm

[Scott Dorsey]

John Dallman <jgd at cix.co.uk> wrote:
>As someone who produces commercial software for Linux, I obviously want
>to support as many of the distributions that my customers use as possible
>with the same build. Once you get into multiple builds and multiple sets
>of testing, costs and inconvenience have a tendency to combinatorial
>explosions. 
>
>Doing that is just /easier/ if you build on RHEL, or its work-alikes, and
>allows you access to updated compilers (via the GCC Toolsets) more
>swiftly than other stable and supported distributions. None of the
>software I produce goes anywhere near systemd. 

Yes!  And the odds are that if I got your binary distribution I could
probably make it run fine on Slackware (without systemd) after spending
an afternoon or two playing with libraries and moving files around.  
Because Linux distributions don't vary THAT much.

But, were I to do that, if I called you for support on your software and
explained I was running it on Slackware, the odds are that the first thing
you would do would be to tell me to move it to a supported RH system.

And that is why.... I and many thousands of others run RH when we actually
don't like the direction RH is heading at all.
--scott

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