He's right (Score 2, Insightful)

I think what he is saying is that Red Hat and Suse are almost exclusively the "target system". Try getting a version of Alias Wavefront Maya certified for Mandrake/Slackware/Debian. Yeah, you can make Maya run on any distribution (I've got it running on my LFS system), but it is distributed with Red Hat in mind. Even some open source stuff, like a hardware mpeg2 driver I am using gives instructions for installing on a Red Hat system... you want to run it on another system, you can, but it's basically up to you to figure out how to do it.

Basically, this is another non-story.