Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 22nd Jan 2007 10:26 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Linux, the free operating system, has gone from an intriguing experiment to a mainstream technology in corporate data centers, helped by the backing of major technology companies like IBM, Intel, and HP, which sponsored industry consortiums to promote its adoption. Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, with the system's penguin symbol, will assist the Linux Foundation. Those same companies have decided that the time has come to consolidate their collaborative support into a new group, the Linux Foundation, which is being announced today. And the mission of the new organization is help Linux, the leading example of the open-source model of software development, to compete more effectively against Microsoft, the world's largest software company.
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2005-11-11
//Software developers will be more likely to write programs for linux if they don't have to write several different versions.//
This is a bit of a misconception. The exact same source code for Linux would normally compile without change on all versions of Linux distributions. No need to re-write, and probably no need to recompile. It should normally be necessary only to re-link against the different versions of libraries, and re-package into the different package formats, in order to produce versions of your application installable on different Linux distributions.
You simply don't have to re-write applications for different Linux distributions.
If you are just a little careful, it is even possible to make a "one size fits all" binary for all Linux distributions.