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A completely different example is [[proprietary software]]. Here the [[source code]] is not available to the end-user, so only the developers can compile (and package) the program. Doing so for several Linux distribution is en effort, and even then, there is no guarantee, that the program will run on all 600+ Linux distributions.
== Software architecture ==
[[File:Free and open-source-software display servers and UI toolkits.svg|thumb|700px|''Visible software components'' of the Linux desktop stack are including the [[display server]], [[Template:Widget engine|widget engines]], and some of the more widespread [[Template:Widget toolkits|widget toolkits]]. There are also the ''invisible components'', including [[D-Bus]] and [[PulseAudio]].]]
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*[[Avant Window Navigator]]
*[[Glx-Dock]]/Cairo-Dock
=== Linux kernel adaptations ===
The same way the Linux kernel can be adapted to run better on supercomputers, there are adaptations to make games and multimedia applications run more performant on it. A project concerning itself with this issue is called [[Liquorix]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=liquorix_311_kernel&num=1 |title=Phoronix: Liquorix-benchmarks}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://liquorix.net/ |title=Liquorix homepage}}</ref>
=== Desktop environments ===
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