[dhs12345]

Sounds like you are a real techie. I am just a casual user with basic understanding.

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Important point....

It is difficult for a company to justify putting tens of thousands of man hours and millions of dollars of NRE into a software program that will be free.

[Westbrook]

> It is difficult for a company to justify putting tens of
> thousands of man hours and millions of dollars of NRE into
> a software program that will be free.

Not all software that runs in Linux is free.

And many are the souls that would be very willing to pay for software like Camtasia and CuBase on Linux.

There are basically two pricing models.

* Pay full-price once and pay upgrade-price for major upgrades

* Buy a subscription and get the upgrades free

The problem lies with the daunting task of having to develop for umpteen different distributions.

[Bikkuri]

RHEL, CentOS, Fedora

Those are for professionals.. Mainly business.. RH (RedHat) actually costs $$.. CentOS is from corporations.. and Fedora is untested sources before it gets to RedHat..