On: IBM COBOL for Linux on x86

[porphyra]

> Is that a common thing for software to be marked as "available for Linux" but only supported for 2 flavours?

Very common. For example Steam for Linux only really supports Ubuntu.

In my experience, extracting stuff from debs and rpms to run on, say, Arch Linux was very easy, using debtap, rpmextract, etc.