sherlock@vsnl.com wrote:
On Tuesday 08 February 2005 12:58, Anurag wrote:
Sometime on Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 10:55:02PM +0530, Rakesh said:
- Unification of OS flavours, this is what I personally feel
about linux. Today there are so many flavours of linux that it becomes very difficult to judge out the best and stable distribution.
Debian. Knoppix.
But these two are not the only flavours of Linux used by people. A good deal of people use Fedora, Mandrake and SUSE with different installer requirements. From a developer point of view, he has to care for packaging rpms or write code for all these variety of platforms or ship the tar.gz which from a novice administrator point of view is difficult to manage. Different installers wouldn't be a problem but the library paths and configuration paths (AFAIK) are different for different flavours to some extent. It would be easier for a developer if he writes code on one flavour of linux and that runs absolutely well on other flavours as well so that he can concentrate more on the features or logic of the code rather than concentrating on dealing with different library paths. Correct me if my perspective is wrong in this context.