Þann Föstudagur 5. maí 2006 08:32 skrifaði jmt: > > Sorry for the disturbion but I would like to mention some things. > > I have been thinking about if it was possible to set up some bug list as > > a kind of quality assurance for commercial programs in Debian. Most > > commercial programs I have seen are only said to be compatible with > > RedHat and sometimes SuSe. > > Mind that most commercial programs, targeted for RedHat or SuSe, are > generally i386 ONLY ! > > Second point : commercial program editors want to rely on some king of > system certification ; even if what RedHat or SuSe provide is far from > satisfaction, it can take place in a business process, as a mention to good > practice. > > Third : what made Apple fortune : a very narrow hardware selection ! If a > commercial program had to rely on > - amd64 > - nvidia > on top of any other hardware combination you can imagine, this list would > generate thousands messages a day ! > > jmt Thanks for your answer You are most probably right in all your points but I can mention that in my case. I need to run the following programs: Cadence, Matlab, Femlab, Sonnet, ADS, ISE-Tcad and Proxecco. Debian is not supported by the producers of these programs but I have managed to make them run more or less flawlessly on my computer. I would rather not need to switch to SuSe nor RedHad, just for running these programs but when advising other people on what distribution to choose, I cannot say Debian because of this lack of quality assurance. Anyway, I see a problem with Debian that might be solved in some clever way but this list is perhaps not be the right forum for these ideas. If anyone could point out a better forum for this idea I would be happy.
Regards Gudjon