[Lilug] Ubuntu Exclusives

[Michael Lee]

Thanks Peter,
I'm sure the packages are OpenSource which just means that if you want it
for your platform, then open up the source and make it so.

I did not know about the LSB till you mentioned it.  I like the idea behind
it.

Thanks again for your input.

-- Mike

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Peter Strifas <pstrifas at novell.com> wrote:

> >>> On 2/9/2009 at 09:36 AM, in message
> <3dc789670902090636n70b28426nab7f2c09d1d9129c at mail.gmail.com>, Michael Lee
> <mlee456 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've been noticing that there have been some apps that are exclusive to
> the
> > Ubuntu distro.
> > I don't know if I like this trend.  Is there some reason why the software
> > has to run on a specific distro?
> >
> > Specifically I know of 'ebox' and just read about 'giver' a little while
> > ago.
> >
> > -- mike
>
> In my experience, this often occurs for 2 reasons: a) a distro company has
> provided some assistance (usually free developer or engineering resources)
> to make the package function on their distro  OR  b) the app developers (or
> company) internally use a specific distro therefore they first develop there
> then add support for additional distros as time allows. Of course LSB is
> supposed to make this 'more better' . . .
>
> - Peter
>
>
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