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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2005-09-01
As ArcheeSteel said, there are many binary compatibility issues on linux, most ranging from lack of interest for the issue in the core developers commuinty (going down as deep as to gcc and glibc).
You have to be aware of many, not documented, obscure lowlevel issues to develop reasonably portable binary without resorting to static linking.