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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.)

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  1. Eh? What ya talking about? by jmorris42 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't see seven layers of API. That's just FUD you are spouting from either the Windows or Berlin camp.

    A typical GNOME app makes calls into the GNOME libraries, which are linked at the hip to GTK. GTK directly talks the lowest wirelevel X protocol which gets stuff on the framebuffer.

    A KDE app talks to the KDE libraries which are built on Qt. Qt talks Xlib (QT experts feel free to call me an idiot and correct me) which, like GTK, talks directly to the X server.

    And if you want to argue that X imposes too much overhead, that is why we have things like the shared memory extension and Xrender.

    But NO, window managers must remain ordinary applications, otherwise X turns into something brain damaged like Windows or a Mac.

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  2. Re:RPM... by inkfox · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Not that I would ever be insane enough to put apt in a cron job like the typical Debian user

    A typical Debian user would not do this. Good god, that's a recipe for disaster!

    "Typical" Debian users are more concerned with stability than they are in "upgrading" constantly.

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