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People like to use package managers to install thing in a Linux distro. Supporting binary compatibility means that they can just use apt instead of building som
by wtetzner 10y ago
People like to use package managers to install thing in a Linux distro. Supporting binary compatibility means that they can just use apt instead of building something new, and rely on Canonical for creating packages.
- kazinator 10y agoIf you're using Ubuntu and relying on Ubuntu packages, that's not "binary compatibility". That's using Ubuntu binaries on Ubuntu. Ok, it's the trivial base case of binary compatibility: A is compatible with A. Ubuntu users do not pull down Fedora packages, right?
- wtetzner 10y agoI'm talking about Windows supporting binary compatibility with Ubuntu, so the Ubuntu userland can be run on Windows.