Dell's Linux Survey

[Matthew Flaschen]

nodata wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 20.03.2007, 19:28 -0400 schrieb Matthew Flaschen:
>> nodata wrote:
>>> Am Dienstag, den 20.03.2007, 13:45 -0500 schrieb Dick Dowdell:
>>>> FYI - Industry pundit on the topic:
>>>> http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/03/19/12OPopenent_1.html?source=NLC-OPENT&cgd=2007-03-20
>>> It's a shame the survey was structured how it was.
>>>
>>> Warren Togami has it right - focus on upstream. See his blog:
>>>  http://wtogami.livejournal.com/15101.html
>> Realistically, if they rigorously tested against any major distribution,
>> the rest would also work in most cases.
>>
>> Matthew Flaschen
>>
> 
> Whereas if they tested against upstream, it would work in all
> distributions, unless the distro broke something.

But every distro breaks/changes/customizes something upstream.  That's
part of why people choose the distro they do.  Moreover, testing against
upstream is more work for Dell then testing against a single distro.

Matt Flaschen