Linux Standard Base 2.0 released

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Linux Standard Base 2.0 released

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday September 13, 2004 @08:35AM from the standard-this-people dept.

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."

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Theres a linux standard? by Foo-Barz · 2004-09-13 08:40 · Score: 3, Funny

Who would have thunk it...
All your base by hhg · 2004-09-13 08:41 · Score: 5, Funny

All your standard-base are belong to us!
then again... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-13 08:43 · Score: 5, Funny

>>ANOTHER PLUS. "This would make life easier. Anything that allows us to move to the different flavors more easily is a good thing,"
Easy? Bah! I want spend 30 hours searching for HOWTO's! I want to type "apropos -k" until my fingers are numb! I want to scan scripts until I hallucinate ascii!
Bah! Bah I say!
1. Re:then again... by ricotest · 2004-09-13 09:46 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Ever had ASCII dreams? Or nightmares. I once dreamt I was getting chased by a gigantic ampersand. Too much NetHack...
This is nonsense by mpcooke3 · 2004-09-13 08:54 · Score: 5, Funny

I mean what are they going to come up with next, a standard packaging format?

Jesus, they're just taking all the fun out linux.
standards are good by prockcore · 2004-09-13 08:57 · Score: 3, Funny

I wish Solaris was LSB compliant even though it's not Linux. Here's a good reason for standards:

There is a killall program on Linux, it kills all processes that have a processname that matches the argument you pass to it.

There is a killall program on Solaris, it doesn't take any arguments and will kill every process running.
1. Re:standards are good by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-13 11:53 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  Someone at my last job demonstrated that fact succintly on a production box one day (wasn't me! :)
Re:Imagine... by rewt66 · 2004-09-13 09:05 · Score: 2, Funny

A Beowulf Cluster of Linux standards? Don't we already have that?
Re:Imagine... by Reducer2001 · 2004-09-13 09:09 · Score: 3, Funny

No, you're thinking clusterfuck.

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Re:slackware and debian by Arker · 2004-09-13 09:21 · Score: 4, Funny

Debian, god only knows why, is attempting to support this stuff. Doesn't seem to fit their social contract at all, and the LSB folks have thumbed their nose at Debian repeatedly, but for some reason they keep trying.

Slackware doesn't and has no interest in it. Another case, I think, where Volkerding gets it.

Given the background and goals of the LSB, I'll be using their certified list as a list of distros to avoid at all costs.

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Re:I've said it before, and I'll say it again... by Nailer · 2004-09-13 13:32 · Score: 2, Funny

Indeed. Red Hat Suse, and Debian are all fringe distros. Unless Yggdrasil gets on board, I say the project is doomed.