linux.com — Ask any independent software vendor what he hates most about developing for Linux and he'll tell you that it's having to develop for SUSE and for Red Hat and for Ubuntu and ... you get the idea. The Linux Foundation has just released a beta of a new program, Linux Application Checker (AppChecker), that's going to make ISVs and other programmers sta
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albumenAug 8, 2008
Yeah. 10 minutes using vi and you want to kill yourself or someone else!!!
maninaliftAug 8, 2008
There's always a .deb
magamiakoAug 8, 2008
Why don't they just standardize on an install process and FS layout?
arcticblueAug 8, 2008
It would never happen. As much as I'd like to see it happen, all you'd hear is the old "choice is better" mantra. In some cases, choice IS better (like KDE or Gnome), but alot of the time it's just someone's justification for his/her pet project. No one wants to improve upon someone else's work. Everyone thinks their own way is the best. The fact that this is even possible Linux's greatest strength, but also its greatest weakness.Also, I'm a little drunk right now so my thoughts probably didn't flow too gracefully. I'm sure you understand what I'm trying to say though. Fill in the "fluff" yourself to make it sound better.
santasingAug 8, 2008
Mono, no thanks. I just boot into Windows when I need to get Windows functionality.
wiseweaselAug 9, 2008
Because POSIX is incredibly barebones, and does not include any kind of GUI or Linux kernel APIs, and so it's not too useful for developers targetting Linux in particular. POSIX is great for daemons and CLI apps, but for anything more complex than that, you need to use a set of rich frameworks in Linux which are not commonly present in BSD, OS X, Solaris or Cygwin, where some standards are definitely needed among different distros to ensure binary compatibility.
savanteliteAug 10, 2008
I don't even know what this is