Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 18th May 2009 19:06 UTC
We all know them. We all hate them. They are generally overdone, completely biased, or so vague they border on the edge of pointlessness (or toppled over said edge). Yes, I'm talking about those "Is Linux ready for the desktop" articles. Still, this one is different.
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2006-05-12
At the same time thought it is a huge pain to build custom packages for the different versions of different distros and that is before you account for people that have upgraded/downgraded some of the libraries you depend on to non-default versions for the OS.
It is a crazy amount of work so it is often better just to open source your application and let the distro well, distribute it in binary form.
Like it or not, this is the Linux distribution model and it does not work nearly as well for commercial software.