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Novell to Help Port Applications to Linux

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the people-still-use-novell dept.

An anonymous reader writes "eWeek is reporting that: "Novell announced the program at its European BrainShare 2004 tradeshow in Barcelona, Spain." "Under the initiative, leading software and hardware vendors, including Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM, Intel Corp., Oracle Corp. and Scali Inc. will work with Novell help their software partners deploy their platforms and solutions on SUSE Linux, according to Novell Inc."

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  1. Re:Let's stop breaking Linux up. by garcia · · Score: 0, Troll

    First, let's correct your previous statement. Novell and SuSE are one, and so there's not as much for a developer to struggle to conform to.

    First let's correct your statement. SuSE is one Linux distribution that a developer would have to develop for. RedHat, Debian, Slackware, Foo, DoubleFoo are all other distributions that would have to be developed for. Yeah, we have the LSB/LSB-2 out there and in active discussion. Yeah you would support one or the other... Neither has really materialized and you still have different packages, different locations, and different setups.

    It's confusing to the user and just as confusing to the developer.