On Tue, Jun 7, 2022, 9:45 AM Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 07, 2022 at 10:38:57AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 7, 2022, 9:03 AM Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Interesting crossover from Linux to Linux Distros... Debian's my
> > > personal fave (in the form of Mint, MX, or even Ubuntu), mostly cuz apt
> > > seems to just work (for me, ymmv) and rpm sucks :). However, all of
> > > these run on the same kernel and generally provide the same userland
> > > (core-utils, etc).
> >
> >
> > But not the same binaries. I've run into a lot of issues trying to run a
> > binary for Debian on red hat or vice Vera due to shared libraries not
> being
> > completely compatible... kinda makes the whole system call argument moot
> > since there is always significant version skew...
>
> Yep, shared libraries can screw you but that's true anywhere.
>

Kinda my point: you brag of a misleading compatibility and then attack
others that decide to slice things up differently and don't have that,
these days useless, talking point.

Warner

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