Linked by David Adams on Wed 6th Aug 2008 15:32 UTC
After 10 years of supporting Linux, IBM continues to challenge Microsoft on multiple fronts and aims to push Linux even further into the enterprise. While IBM has competed and partnered with Microsoft over the last two decades, the Microsoft-free PC effort is perhaps its most direct assault yet. "The idea of Microsoft-free personal computing has been in the air for a while," Inna Kuznetsova, director of Linux at IBM, told InternetNews.com. "We're just partnering with Linux distribution vendors and hardware vendors to make it happen."
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In situation that even two versions of the same distro are not fully binary compatible makes development and distribution of Linux applications nearly impossible."
I both agree and disagree. ID Software released Doom 3 for Linux, and Return to Castle Wolfenstien for Linux, and these are my examples. The binaries can be released as a one shot deal, and that has been proven.
Well, these are games. They have very little bindings to the rest of system.
Unfortunately, normal desktop apps have to bind to system. For example, they have to use platform libraries to look natively. Or just to draw text.
That for closed-source applications means linking to .so present on the system. There is no way around this. And they never can be sure what .so is currently present on the system.
Edited 2008-08-06 19:35 UTC