On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Sergio Brandano wrote: > Out of blue, why is that Linux now runs stable on six (6) different
Only 6? :-) > platforms but commercial software like Star, Corel, Adobe and IBM, > just to mention a few, are only available for ix86? Are there any > political or technical reasons for it? There are several reasons: - Most people think Linux == ia32 - Most people think Linux == Red Hat - The market share for non-ia32 Linux is too small to justify the work - Commercial software is not endian-clean or not signed/unsigned char-clean And only the last one is technical... Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds