:~>dear mandrake,
:~>
:~>i read in pc plus magazine (#165-july 2000) here in the uk that;
:~>'analysts at wall street's JP Morgan have said that it's inevitable that
:~>linux will break up into a series of totally incompatible versions'.
:~>
:~>i wonder if mandrake see this as a possibility, if so do you see this as
:~>a bad thing as i know i do, and what input/influence do you have on the
:~>issue of compatibility.
:~>
This is my PERSONAL view of things
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1) Look and feel of distros will differ a lot.
2) Tools used to acomplish administrative jobs may differ too, although
some convergence may take place. In particular, some companies will choose
to use propriatery tools for administrative tasks, like SuSe already does.
3) Filesystem layout and libraries will be standardised enough to enable
you to run any "linux" program on any "linux" distribution withouth
problems, although there may be big problems in front of us with different
packaging systems (there are now, think rpm<->deb, then different ways
of dealing with rpm used by us& redhat on one and SuSe on other side...).
(I hope someone will come with much better packaging tool, which will
accept both rpm- and deb- packages for historical reasons and
make an end to this nonsense...)
cu
Denis
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