Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 08:47:53 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [Fwd: Acrobat Reader 3.0 Beta for Linux! (fwd)] Message-ID: <199609271447.IAA04859@rover.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Sep 1996 19:58:37 PDT." <Pine.AUX.3.94.960926195150.12329B-100000@covina> References: <Pine.AUX.3.94.960926195150.12329B-100000@covina>
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In message <Pine.AUX.3.94.960926195150.12329B-100000@covina> Jake Hamby writes: : I'd like to comment: Notice the wording in the announcement and on : Adobe's Web page which says it _only_ has been tested on Yggdrasil Fall : edition. Does that give you an indication how _afraid_ commercial authors : are of claiming support for the divergent varieties of Linux distributions : out there that they haven't tested? The Linux groups report that it works well everywhere. : Having a single distribution of FreeBSD has always been a _big_ win for : us, IMHO. However the fact that FreeBSD runs a variety of different Linux : versions and is nowhere near 100% compatible from a userland perspective, : implies that the differences between the various Linux flavors are : unlikely to cause programs like Acrobat Reader much trouble. Therefore it : appears that commercial vendors only "support" a single Linux flavor for : political, rather than technical reasons.... Actually, it is a credibility issue. If I say that it works on X Y and Z when I've only tested X and it fails on Y or Z, I've lost credibility. Sure, it should work there, but if it doesn't, then I look bad. We had this same problem when we released OI on Linux. We required libc 4.2 and a kernel newer than 0.99p12. However, we later found out that libc 4.4 broke binary compatibility for C++ programs (who care about those anyway)... It was a mess. Warner
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