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Linux Distributors Work Towards Desktop Standards
WebHostingGuy wrote to mention an MSNBC article discussing a move by several Linux distributors to standardize on a set of components for desktop versions of the operating system. From the article: "The standard created by the Free Standards Group should make it easier for developers to write applications that will work on Linux versions from different distributors. Linux has a firm foothold as an operating system for servers -- it's popular for hosting Web sites, for instance -- but has only a few percent of the desktop market." -
LSB Submitted To ISO/IEEE
mcneil@freestandards says: "The LSB has been submitted to ISO/IEEE for an ISO imprimatur. While this is not really new news, it is important that every Linux user get involved to make sure their country votes YES for Linux ISO standardization! With Linux achieving international standards recognition it will be that much easier for governments and other risk adverse organizations to include Linux in their procurement policies. This of course will further the normalization of free and open source software, lessen the world's reliance on sucky legacy platforms, etc. etc." -
Linux Standard Base 2.0 released
prostoalex writes "Linux Standard Base 2.0 has been released by the Free Standards Group. The release will allow application developers to ensure their product works on multiple flavors of Linux. FSG keeps a list of compliant distributions on its Web site." -
Linux Standard Base 2.0 released
prostoalex writes "Linux Standard Base 2.0 has been released by the Free Standards Group. The release will allow application developers to ensure their product works on multiple flavors of Linux. FSG keeps a list of compliant distributions on its Web site." -
Common XML Locale Specification Released
Leslie Proctor writes "The Free Standards Group Open Internationalization Initiative, OpenI18N (formerly known as Li18nux) announced the release of the XML specification of the common XML locale data." Here is the announcement. -
PPC32 And IA64 Being Added To LSB Certification
George Kraft (gk4) writes "The LSB is announcing its intention to add PPC32 and IA64 architectures to its certification program; therefore, the workgroup is launching a Certification Pilot for PPC32 and IA64 architectures to evaluate the LSB's runtime conformance test suites. The pilot will continue until Friday December 13th, 2002. This will give Linux distributions and hardware vendors time to evaluate, comment, and get prepared before certification begins in 1Q03. Currently there are seven IA32 Linux releases from four distributions which are LSB v1.2 Certified." Also, "The LSB workgroup has just released for public review its latest LSB v1.3 draft of the generic written specification and for IA32, PPC32, and IA64. The workgroup is soliciting comments from the community until Friday November 8th. (Read on below for details on these changes.)Specifically, regarding the gLSB, several interfaces were changed either to or from the LSB as the guiding specification based on issues which were raised with the LSB 1.2. The new reference more accurately describes these interfaces. Several interfaces were incorporated from the Li18nux 2000 Specification to better support Internationalization and localization. The descriptions of interfaces defined by the LSB have been clarified and improved overall. The data definitions are more complete now. Some duplications were eliminated and some omissions have been included. Below are details of some of the changes:
New Interfaces
touchline touchwin __isinf __isinff __isinfl __isnan __isnanf __isnanl asprintf freeaddrinfo gai_strerror getaddrinfo getgrgid_r getgrnam_r getnameinfo inet_ntop inet_pton isinff ngettext statvfs64 tdelete pam_acct_mgmt pam_authenticate pam_chauthtok pam_close_session pam_end pam_fail_delay pam_get_item pam_getenvlist pam_open_session pam_set_item pam_setcred pam_start pam_strerror _Unwind_DeleteException _Unwind_Find_FDE _Unwind_ForcedUnwind _Unwind_GetDataRelBase _Unwind_GetGR _Unwind_GetIP _Unwind_GetLanguageSpecificData _Unwind_GetRegionStart _Unwind_GetTextRelBase _Unwind_RaiseException _Unwind_Resume _Unwind_SetGR _Unwind_SetIP, and socket ioctl() commands
Deprecated Interfaces
__dcgettext alphasort alphasort64 endhostent fstatfs fstatfs64 gets sethostent setmntent statfs statfs64 waitid
New Libraries
libgcc_s (Unwind interfaces) libpam
New Specifications
RPM File Format
New ELF Section
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Deciding On The Future of Linux
A reader writes: The Free Standards Group has posted a request for feedback, now that they have completed LSB 1.2 and li18nux is also finished. Where should they/we go next? " -
Deciding On The Future of Linux
A reader writes: The Free Standards Group has posted a request for feedback, now that they have completed LSB 1.2 and li18nux is also finished. Where should they/we go next? " -
Three Major Linux Distributions Certified LSB Compliant
KevinDumpsCore writes "RedHat, Mandrake, and SuSE are now certified LSB compliant!" Here's the announcement on the Free Standards Group's site. The Linux Standards Base (check out these related Slashdot posts) has been working for years to perhaps tame the what-lives-where cross-distro craziness. (Of course, distro makers are under no obligation to comply with the LSB's choices.) -
Linux Standard Base 1.1
Staili writes: "Zdnet is reporting that The Free Standards Group released version 1.1 of the Linux Standard Base (LSB) as well as the first version of the Linux Internationalization Initiative standard to deal with Linux language barriers." -
The LSB Delivers Again
gk4 writes "The LSB has updated and published the gLSB v1.1 draft for review. The LSB has also published for review the new psLSB for IA32 v1.1 draft and the completed LSB v1.0.1 Test Suites. Review ends Friday January 4th; however, the LSB welcomes comments from the community at any time." -
Updates from the Free Standards Group
Daniel Quinlan writes "Today, the Free Standards Group released version 1.2 of the Linux Development Platform Specification and let loose with the public review of FHS 2.2-beta that will be used in the Linux Standard Base (and is already being used by distributions). Also of note, the Linux Standard Base has a new chairman, George Kraft IV, and the LSB specification is nearing completion. Really." -
The Linux Development Platform Specification : Beta
Daniel Quinlan writes: "The Free Standards Group is publishing a beta release of the Linux Development Platform Specification (LDPS) which tells third-party software providers how to best achieve binary-compatibility across different Linux distributions (well, at least until the Linux Standard Base is done). It's important to note that third-party software providers include not just the large vendors like Oracle and IBM, but also anyone who creates a binary package for use on more than one version of a single distribution." -
The Linux I18N And Standard Base Merge
Leo Comitale writes "According to this press release the Linux Standard Base and the Linux Internationalization (I18N) project have merged and are calling themselves the Free Standards Group. I think it is really important for Linux to have a basic, low level standard for file system layout and support for international languages. These areas are critical to keeping Linux from splintering into a bunch of incompatible variants, and it seems these efforts are not getting as much support as they probably should be."