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Three Major Linux Distributions Certified LSB Compliant

Posted by timothy on from the oh-you're-so-compliant dept.

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.)

6 of 188 comments (clear)

  1. Re:What about Debian? by ArtDent · · Score: 5, Informative

    LSB requires compliant distributions to provide, not use, rpm, and Debian does.

  2. Re:The story didn't mention which versions by phatvibez · · Score: 5, Informative

    (http://www.opengroup.org/lsb/cert/cert_prodlist.t pl?CALLER=display_product.tpl)

    -Mandrake Linux ProSuite 8.2 + first update CD
    -Red Hat Linux 7.3 with glibc 2.2.5-39+kernel 2.4.18-10 or later
    -SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional + aaa_base and Kernel Update

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  3. Re:Nooooooo, evil RPMs! by Khalid · · Score: 5, Informative

    I have been using apt for rpm (apt4rpm.sf.net) for ages, works insanly well !! resolve de dependency hell !

  4. It's close by hendridm · · Score: 4, Informative

    Debian 3.0 did pretty well compared to SuSE.

    Link shamelessly stolen from this post.

  5. Re:What about Debian? by noahm · · Score: 4, Informative
    The are some problems, for some reason LSB specifies a standard package, ie RPM I do not know why, I see no reason for it, but obvious this is a problem for Debian, which has its own (imo superior) package (debs).

    Grr, I'm so tired of people not getting this. The LSB usage of RPM is simply not a problem for Debian. We have no problems handling .rpm packages. See the rpm and alien packages (particularly alien) to see how we do it. The RPM thing is a non-issue regarding Debian's LSB compliance.

    To see how seriously Debian takes LSB compliance, go have a look at the archives of the various LSB related Debian mailing lists

    noah

  6. Re:LSB vs FHS by deblau · · Score: 4, Informative

    LSB is an attempt to standardize many aspects of a Linux distribution, such as binary (executable) file format, dynamic libraries, packages, and system initialization. They also standardize file system format, and the LSB 1.2 is FHS 2.2 compliant.

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