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The big Linux distros (EL, Ubuntu) in fact have the opposite incentive, to get proprietary vendors to rather their distribution specifically.

>>cozzyd+(OP)
This theory would check out if a proprietary vendor could easily get away with shipping a single binary package for all supported versions of, say, Ubuntu.

Having to build and maintain a binary packege separately for each version of the same distro probably isn't that appealing to them.

>>myk900+l5
For Ubuntu they would only target LTS releases, most likely.

On EL it's easier, now you would just support 2 or 3 of EL7, EL8, and EL9.

As an example of something I use, Xfdtd only officially supports one version of Ubuntu and 2 versions of EL https://www.remcom.com/system-requirements#xfdtd-system-requ...

In practice, it wasn't too hard to get it running on EL9 or Fedora either...