Re: tlug: Re: Many Faces on Linux

[Chris Sekiya <chris@example.com>]

On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Andrew S. Howell wrote:

> Though linux is very good, the one thing that I wish the linux community
> would do is not be so linux centric. That is, I would like to be able to
> run some open source stuff on commercial UNIX systems. As I write this,
> I can't think of a good example, but I know in the past I have found
> stuff that is so full of "linuxisms", that it is difficult to port.

You're probably thinking of the <linux/blah.h> and <asm/blah.h> stuff.

It's getting easier to port developed-on-linux apps to other unix
variants.  glibc essentially forces developers to write cleaner, more
portable code.

-- Chris

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