This talk is not about Linux. Linux is a great platform that takes ABI and backwards compatibility seriously. This is about the common userspace stack that we

This talk is not about Linux. Linux is a great platform that takes ABI and backwards compatibility seriously. This is about the common userspace stack that we commonly refer to as Linux. There are two issues with this stack. One issue is that there is no major distribution that takes its role as a platform seriously [0]. The second issue is that there is a lot of common ground between the major distributions that is not standardized. If different distributions have different ideas of package management, then that is one thing, and we can live with that difference. If different distributions have the same idea of using openssl, then they should do so in a compatable manner. [0] I would go further and say that there is no distribution that even pretends to be a platform.