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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. Re:RPM... by Scudsucker · · Score: 1, Troll

    The apt groupies can't get it into their pointed heads that apt can work just fine with rpms.

    What RPM goupies can't get into their pointed heads is that you can slap on an apt-like system onto RPM but that wont fix RPM's interdependancy problems. Its silly to think that just by slapping on another layer of package management that it will be "just as good" as a system that has been designed from the ground up not to have those problems, like Debians.

    It's like if Microsoft and Apple just hacked multitasking and protected memory on top of the old MacOS and Win9x and claimed it was "just as good" as a unix kernel. Sheesh.