On 09/25/2015 11:44 AM, Rob Landry wrote:
Why does it need a special distribution?
It doesn't. What a *supported* distro brings, is support ! The ability to know which libraries are included, which are not, what the user interface provides and what it looks like, etc. CentOS provides a very long ( in computer millenia ) support cycle for the OS itself. SuSE was originally chosen as having popular and commercial support, being the dominant OS of choice in Europe at the time. That's changed, obviously. All of the OS available at the time, including some not based on the Linux kernel were discussed. True, one can install this, or any open source package, on any OS one chooses, and may well for other reasons settle on some OS other than the "supported" OS. There's not a thing wrong with that. -- Cowboy http://cowboy.cwf1.com On the subject of C program indentation: "In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt." -- Blair P. Houghton _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
