Which Distro?

Thu Jul 17 11:55:55 CEST 2008

> i repeat... why ONE? why does everyone think we HAVE to support just 
> ONE? why?

Because developers want to have a stable distro to target against, and 
that means knowing whats in the distro already so that packages can be 
delivered reliably that do not have massive dependencies.
> does your desktop linux distro ONLY run gtk apps? you can't use kde 
> or qt apps?

This isn't clearly understood, I think. One thing we really have to 
understand, clearly (us 3rd-party developers), is that we can build 
packages that will install - and run - for each of these distros.
Say I have an app that I want to sell to 100 OpenMoko users. Can I 
just make an .ipk that will install on all of those machines, if some 
of them are running FSO, some ASU, some 2007.2? This has the 
potential - whether perceived or real or not - to be a support 
nightmare for 3rd-party developers, unless they understand that its 
possible to target all 3 distro's and support them easily enough.
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Jay Vaughan