[Lilug] Ubuntu Exclusives

[Peter Strifas]

Depending on the package license, yes, one can install to any distro of their liking. The LSB-compliance means this task would be simple yet sometimes there's a few tweaks required or dependencies to iron out.

Again, if you're good with self-support or community support, there's no real barriers here. From an enterprise stand-point, most customers (end-users) want their vendor of choice to support that package(s). And for that, I believe every major distro (RHAT, SUSE, Ubuntu etc) has a process to run through to make it happen.

hth,
- Peter


>>> On 2/9/2009 at 10:09 AM, in message
<3dc789670902090709l5d7fcc16o3aec9d2f33374573 at mail.gmail.com>, Michael Lee
<mlee456 at gmail.com> wrote: 
> 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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