Re: Experience the New Windows

["dodobh@xxxxxxxxxxx" <dodobh@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Atul Chitnis spewed into the ether:
>I don't buy this one. This is what I meant by "blind advocacy" - the
>(g)libc hassles in Linux have been just as terrible as DLL hassles.
>
>Example: StarOffice 5.0 that wouldn't install under certain glibc setups
>(RedHat 6.0, for example). Ditto for the current Netscape 6.
I agree on this. If you use closed source software, you have to have exactly the same setup that they say. However, it is rare enough if you roll your own apps (and if you don't have the patience to roll them, get the rpms from your distro).

I do admit to being guilty of over-generalising though.

Devdas Bhagat



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