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[quote][b]Alaa Salman[/b] wrote: This problem has been acknowledged by a lot of developers, even open source hackers themselves. The idea was that even if an ISV wants to develop for GNU/Linux, it will be almost impossible for them because of the problems that you described(multiple distributions, non-standard filesystem paths, different libraries, different compiler versions and so on...) And it was recognized that if GNU/Linux was to become a success in the smaller desktop applications market, then it would need to address this. There has been a few attempts, the LSB is the biggest one. But in my opinion, little progress has been made. Why is a matter of personal opinion and so not necessarily valid. The general work-around is to pick the top 3 distributions and go with those. So for rpm systems, i'd go with Redhat and Suse and for deb systems, i'd go with Debian. With these 3(and their derivatives), you would have covered a lot of the GNU/Linux market out there. In general, these distributions strive for a minimum compatibility between releases and will generally help you in achieving that. The binary compatibility you talked about is the fault of the compiler solely, but as a rule of thumb, major version s should not break binary compatibility but gcc is a beast on its own. I'll be happy to help if needed.[/quote]
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