Linux Compatibility Issue

From: Abdul Latip (dullatip_at_angin.com)
Date: 02/14/04

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    Hello:

    Once in a while, users are asking me about the compatibilty problem of
    Linux. They reasoning that M$Office can be installed anywhere like
    Win98, WinME, WinNT, et. al. Whereas it is hard to install a
    RedHat package into Debian, and so on.

    AFAIK, CMIIW, this is related with the compiler version, the glibc
    version, the kernel version, and the kernel configuration and
    modules. May I know what exactly the Linux compability problem
    is ? I.E.: It seems they are not so backward compatible?

    Am I wrong? May I know if there is a better explaination
    about this issue?

    thank you, 

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