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The various distros have converged enough that you can typically run any userland program on any recent version of any distro. The recent adoption by virtually
by randallsquared 10y ago
The various distros have converged enough that you can typically run any userland program on any recent version of any distro. The recent adoption by virtually everyone of systemd is a sign of this, it seems.
- digi_owl 10y agomeh, that was fully possible before systemd. The real sticking point were distro package managers and the odd file placement difference (mostly regarding where to put the rc script to have things start on boot). This meant you could not just put a package out there and tell some clueless web monkey to go curl it straight into production as root. And IMO that was a good thing.
- randallsquared 10y ago> that was fully possible before systemd. The wide acceptance of systemd was an example of the convergence of the main distros. I didn't mean you to infer it was some sort of prerequisite.
- digi_owl 10y agoAnd that convergence is more politically than technically driven.
- brandmeyer 10y agoAnd yet, the major commercial applications I use (Chrome, Steam, Matlab) all come with their own copies of standard system libraries.