Binary compatibility on Linux

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On 11/11/2012 11:57 AM, Thomas Koch wrote:
> So by getting your package in the archives of Debian and Fedora, you should
> serve the large majority of linux users.

Which is well and good, but doesn't address the problem that software developers 
face, which is "How can I make directly available binaries of my programs that 
will work for any Linux user?"

It's useful to be able to do that regardless of whether your software is FOSS 
and regardless of whether or not it's in distro repositories, because your 
latest release will always take time to propagate to the distros and because not 
everyone is comfortable compiling from source.