Subject: Re: WordPerfect-8.0-8
From: Roy Koch (rkoch@interaccess.com)
Date: Sun Oct 10 1999 - 06:33:07 MDT
Thanks again. I am trying my best to contribute to Linux development myself with the
limited knowledge I have! By the Way I went to the Zoo and took a picture of a
Penguin swimming with fish if anyone is interested?
http://homepage.interaccess.com/~rkoch/
Jim Cole wrote:
> It is not actually the "flavor of Linux" that matters, but the hardware
> platform Linux is running on. This is not a "Linux" thing, but just a
> fact of life given current technology. Although not an absolute truth,
> Linux packages for the x86 platform tend to run under most all x86 Linux
> distributions, packages for the PowerPC platform tend to run under all
> PPC distributions, etc. On the other hand, the Linux environment
> has the strength of allowing software to be efficiently ported
> from one hardware platform to another. So, if there is enough demand,
> any package you might want to use will probably show up for your hardware
> platform in the not too distant future.
>
> Jim
>
> Roy Koch's bits of Sat, 9 Oct 1999 translated to:
>
> > Thanks so much I am a newbe and thought that a program for Linux weather it
> > came from a PC installation disk or not would work on the version of Linux I am
> > running? I was thinking that is what makes Linux so great but I see that there
> > is more than one flavor of Linux!
> >
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