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Linux Standard Base 2.0 released

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. All your base by hhg · · Score: 5, Funny

    All your standard-base are belong to us!

  2. then again... by Anonymous Coward · · 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!

  3. This is nonsense by mpcooke3 · · 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.

  4. Re:slackware and debian by Arker · · 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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