I just had a conversation with a software engineer at a company we are
getting ready to purchase a peice of server software from. While talking
the obvious question came up "Do you support Linux?" He responded with
something I find very interesting, and at the same time valid. He said
"We DID, but over time we found developing for linux was like shooting
at a moving target. People have so many different configurations, and
the differences go much deeper than just surface changes. Libraries are
different between distributions, kernel versions are so varied and change
so drastically from version to version. Its just hard to keep a stable
product running for everyone." Of course his point is only valid if they
dont enforce certain requirements, but the problem is still valid as an
argument. Is linux so freely modifiable that it is starting to shoot
itself in its own foot? My reply is no, just tell software vendors to
support redhat not just linux in general. It is well maintained and
widely used. That way you can say "this version works with redhat 5.0"
and you can say that with relative certainty, but you can hardly every
say "this works with linux 2.0.31" these days. I am just a really big
linux advocate and I hate to see anything that could harm its growth.
Am I just overreacting or does anyone agree?
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