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On Sunday 17 September 2006 12:07, Simon Waters wrote: > I think it a mistake to classify "GNU/Linux" as an OS, you should > compare a distro to something like MacOSX, or Windows, otherwise you'll > be perpetually unhappy, and confused. agreed - and this is the problem. you can not offer "GNU/Linux binaries" [1] , you can only offer "Distro X binaries". It gets worse when it's gui too. "Distro X Version Y with KDE" or "Distro X Version Y with Gnome" or "Distro X Version Y with QT" if you want to application to integrate with the GUI "properly" :/ GNU/Linux could really do with a common, stable API for more software vendors to start supporting it, as this is the only bad thing left imho (freedesktop have solved almost all the "generic" GUI integration issues) for commercial applications to start supporting linux nativly rather than through wine. ~ Theo 1 - Just to keep matt happy i'm adding "GNU/" to everything these days :-) -- Theo P. Zourzouvillys http://www.crazygreek.co.uk theo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html