Re: Who could be able to help SW vendors to support Debian?

2005-02-08 Thread Martin Schulze
Christian Perrier wrote: > During the Solutions Linux expo in Paris, the DD's present at the > Debian booth have been approached by a representative from Trend Micro > Corp. who develops and sells security software (the most well known > being probably a virus scanning software and such similar sof

Re: Who could be able to help SW vendors to support Debian?

2005-02-04 Thread Tim Cutts
On 3 Feb 2005, at 5:53 pm, Eric Lavarde wrote: Hi, as I understand myself as someone aware of the support problems of software problems, I would like to point to 2 problems: 1. the Debian Kernel is a bit different from the kernel.org Kernel; example: at work we used the Apani VPN client, which d

Re: Who could be able to help SW vendors to support Debian?

2005-02-03 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, as I understand myself as someone aware of the support problems of software problems, I would like to point to 2 problems: 1. the Debian Kernel is a bit different from the kernel.org Kernel; example: at work we used the Apani VPN client, which did work under all kind of RedHat/SuSE kernel,

Re: Who could be able to help SW vendors to support Debian?

2005-02-02 Thread Wim De Smet
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 09:55:51PM +, Tim Cutts wrote: > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 07:37:27PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > Would any people around have pointers which could be given to such > > people?? Do we already have an entry point for such technical issues > > as proprietary SW vendo

Re: Who could be able to help SW vendors to support Debian?

2005-02-02 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 09:46:19PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > With the proviso that static linking against libc6 is more likely to > introduce ABI problems via nss than just dynamically linking against an old > libc6 ABI (i.e., GLIBC_2.0 or GLIBC_2.1). Not to mention the LGPL too. Static lin

execturing libc (was: Re: Who could be able to help SW vendors to support Debian?)

2005-02-02 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 06.35, Brian M. Carlson wrote: > I think you meant to ask, "Why would anyone want to execute the C > library?" > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /lib/ld-linux.so.2 /lib/libc.so.6 Ok, this is off topic for this thread, but still, strangely: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /lib/ld-2.3.2.s

Re: Who could be able to help SW vendors to support Debian?

2005-02-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 10:06:14PM +, Steve Kemp wrote: > Beyond that I think the other poster was right, really there > should be more focus on linking statically, packing in an open > format such as .tar.gz not .rpm and miminal links to the kernel > or OS. With the proviso that static

Re: Who could be able to help SW vendors to support Debian?

2005-02-01 Thread Brian M. Carlson
On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 14:27 -0800, Marc Singer wrote: > 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 ker

Re: Who could be able to help SW vendors to support Debian?

2005-02-01 Thread Christian Perrier
> I don't like to pass the buck, yet I can't see a way that Debian, as > it is can support them directly. Perhaps they ought to look to the I think they don't need support from Debian. They just need to know where to discuss the issues they are concerned with. In understand this is not really a

Re: Who could be able to help SW vendors to support Debian?

2005-02-01 Thread Marc Singer
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. >

Re: Who could be able to help SW vendors to support Debian?

2005-02-01 Thread Marc Singer
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 10:57:08PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > > Would any people around have pointers which could be given to such > > > people ? Do we already have an entry point for such technical issues > > > as proprietary SW vendors needing technical information about the way > > >

Re: Who could be able to help SW vendors to support Debian?

2005-02-01 Thread Steve Kemp
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 10:57:08PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > Well, I'm not the software vendor here..:-) > > As far as I've inderstood, this product induces some interaction at > kernel-level and the vendor developers may have concerns about the > kernel on the distribution they want to s

Re: Who could be able to help SW vendors to support Debian?

2005-02-01 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
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+ canno

Re: Who could be able to help SW vendors to support Debian?

2005-02-01 Thread Christian Perrier
> > Would any people around have pointers which could be given to such > > people ? Do we already have an entry point for such technical issues > > as proprietary SW vendors needing technical information about the way > > to support Debian ? > > It isn't clear to me what sort of compatibility iss

Re: Who could be able to help SW vendors to support Debian?

2005-02-01 Thread Tim Cutts
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 07:37:27PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > Would any people around have pointers which could be given to such > people?? Do we already have an entry point for such technical issues > as proprietary SW vendors needing technical information about the way > to support Debian?

Re: Who could be able to help SW vendors to support Debian?

2005-02-01 Thread Marc Singer
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 07:37:27PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > During the Solutions Linux expo in Paris, the DD's present at the > Debian booth have been approached by a representative from Trend Micro > Corp. who develops and sells security software (the most well known > being probably a vi

Who could be able to help SW vendors to support Debian?

2005-02-01 Thread Christian Perrier
During the Solutions Linux expo in Paris, the DD's present at the Debian booth have been approached by a representative from Trend Micro Corp. who develops and sells security software (the most well known being probably a virus scanning software and such similar software suites). We ended with a v