Re: [SLE] I want to run windows applications!!!

Alexey Eremenko wrote:
How M$ managed to have
done this? to let good products run on their cripple products?


There is fundamental problem with Linux's compatibility - that is it
is almost impossible (very hard) to run Debian Software on SUSE Linux
and vice versa.

But what software is "Debian Software" and what is "SUSE Software"?
Virtually everything is available packaged for your distro, assuming you
use a wide use distro. Moreover, everything GPL is available via source...

Not only that but within same Linux there is compatibility problems. -
Try to run TuxRacer rpm from Mandrake 9.2 on Mandrake 10.1 to see what
I mean - the software installs but doesn't works.

But why would you do that? Why not use the Tuxracer RPM designed for SUSE?

But in general Linuxes stay *very* incompatible with each other, and
until that is resolved - so I can freely install *any* binary x86 RPM
on *any* Linux distro - companies will NOT provide Linux software.

Why? Why is that so important? One of Linux's fabulous advantages is
diversity. You see, different distro's get to try out different ways of
doing things. They then learn from each other, making the whole better.

On Windows you have basically about 90% of backwards compatibility.
That is 9 out of 10 programs will run on newer versions of Windows
unmodified. If there was a requirement to rewrite *all* Windows 98
software to be able to run on XP, I would never install XP - by the
time the OS was out many programs were already compatible with it.

And every version of every modern distro has a massive library already
available at release.

By the time new version of Linux is out - only what the distro
members/developers decided to include exists. A few third-party
repositories helps, but not solves the problem as like with Windows.

Because the individual software makers take the extra effort to make
sure their software is compatible. Quite often, it isn't. I remember
reading about plenty of major software makers whose current version had
Windows XP issues when that was first released.


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