On Sep 27, 2021, at 2:15 PM, Nemo Nusquam via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > On 2021-09-27 10:07, Joshua Rice via cctalk wrote (in part): >> >> However, much of the "Linux" software is in fact POSIX software, and can >> quite easily be ported between Linux and other *NIX-likes, such as Solaris, >> macOS and the *BSD family. > > I cannot agree. Many developers ensure that their software runs under their > particular distribution and then call it POSIX. Porting to UNIX systems, such > as Solaris or macOS, can be difficult and tedious. (Of course, this is not a > Linux issue.) > > N.
This also sums up nicely what is Linux’s greatest failing. Software vendors need “Linux”, and what they get is “Red Hat”, “SLES”, “Ubuntu”, etc. and as a result, the users suffer. This is why most commercial apps target MacOS and Windows, or more often than not, just Windows. One vendor I work with is looking at supporting something in Linux, the problem being, they have to re-implement it for each distro. That’s just one of the issues they face it supporting Linux. Zane
