Cell BE SDK on Ubuntu

[Brian McKee]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Chaman Singh Verma <csv610 at gmail.com> wrote:
> what are the differences and difficulties in porting RHEL5.1 and Fedora 7 to
> Ubuntu and
> what could be the reasons that companies like IBM are sticking to only these
> two platform
> instead of being general on OS.

While I'm not directly familiar with this case or IBM's management
decisions - I'd guess that they decided to target RHEL as it's the
'enterprise linux' currently that people most often pay for.  Also
guessing here, but if they got it to run on RHEL5.1, Fedora 7 is
probably equivalent in all the areas that mattered, so they got that
one for free.

It can be tough for a company that wants to sell a linux product -
they have to pick and choose which versions to officially support
rather than saying it'll work everywhere.   I don't know if this is
the case for this specific product, but often items like these will
work on other distros, they just don't support it.  For instance, they
make a version of their AS/400 client access software for RHEL, but it
works fine under Ubuntu if you use alien on the rpms.

Brian