On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:01:25PM +0100, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:35:41AM -0800, Marc Singer wrote: > > I've been under the impression that the only machine-level > > incompatibilities are really kernel and driver issues and not issues > > with Debian per se. > > > > Can you be a little more specific? > > > > Currently for instance Matlab 6.5+ cannot be installed without a little > hack in the installer, that's due to a known bug (or feature ?) in our > sarge libc: it is not executable, like RH ones.
I don't get the last part of that. 'it is not executable'? > Supporting a release involves also those aspects. I think I'm getting the idea. This is an interesting issue as it ought to fall on the shoulders of the application vendor given that their software has specific needs not readily addressable by the distribution. Is this one of those lbrary .so version number incompatibilities? Seems like we're in that gray zone between the distribution and the end-user. Software vendors aren't pulling their weight because many believe that RH *is* Linux, wrong on so many levels. Again, it seems like this is a place where someone ought to commit a little cash to smooth over the wrinkles. OEM hardware vendors already do this to support MS. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
