As Michael said, you can cover a very huge range of systems if you distribute an i386 and AMD64 version. (But you should have in mind, that there are also some people with other architectures...) Most closed-source applications for Linux are only available for these (for example Google Earth and others), Opera for example still also provides a version for PPC. (I, as a Linux/PPC user, am a little bit frustaded about the situation, that I cannot use Flash, Google Earth, official ATI drivers, ...)
If you distribute a Windows application, you normaly also only distribute a i386 version of it. Some times ago, there was also an Alpha (I think it was Alpha...) version of Windows NT available. And perhaps, ReactOS will be ported to other platforms. :) (Just to point out, that you have with a closed-source distributed application the same possible range.) But as an Open Source developer, I surely recommend you to distribute the source. :) And you are right: Only if you distribute the source, you can ensure, that your application will run nearly everywhere. Am Dienstag, den 16.01.2007, 14:10 -0500 schrieb Lee Jenkins: > Albert Zeyer wrote: > > Hi > > > > There are severeal parts you should seperate: > > > > Firstly, all the hardware-stuff: > > > > Thanks Albert. So it seems that if I do not distribute the source of a > program, than I will have to compile binaries for at least a couple of > different distributions and/or cpu's. > >
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