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The fact that there's a need for such fine-grained compatibility with other linux system goes against quite a few of well-established software principles.

Most linux software is extremely portable and runs on probably all POSIX compatible systems already.

I never understood this need to make "bit-fot-bit" clones of one particular distro - RHEL. I've worked with "enterprise" Linux for a decade now, and I'm totally fine if my stuff is debian-esque or ubunt-esque. Sure, there are libcpp and other shared libraries that need to be compatible if trying to run the same binary of some programs on different distros but it's been a really fringe case.



Many vendors of enterprise software have supported operating systems. Though it seems odd that this is still a thing in the world of containers we now live in.




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