On 06/04/10 20:58, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 01:30:26PM -0700, Chuck Silvers wrote:it does appear that debian has better platform support, so that could be a reason to switch distributions eventually.Debian doesn't really care about LSB and most commercial software gets tested on Red Hat or SuSE.
This will be no longer true (if it's possible to say it that way). Some commercial software creators have detected, that (for some unexplainable reason) a lot of their customers don't want to be forced to one of RHEL or SLES. So many future commercial software (I expect first versions with this new prerequisites) will have some concrete dependencies (like kernel 2.6.16, glibc-2.6.xx, ...) and no distribution. This means, that it's tested on the Linux distribution the test team likes most - or (depending on the time and money available for the test) for the bigger 4+ distributions. I don't know how often out Linux emulation will be adapted, but if this is seen as a chance, I suggest it should be used. Jens