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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. OLD NEWS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    This spec was released August 30th, over 2 weeks ago.

  2. Re:0 comments and already slashdotted... by Izago909 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Try the Google cache.

  3. Re:Theres a linux standard? by mrchaotica · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm sure you'll be flabbergasted by this and this then!

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  4. Re:Good, though already outdated by Carewolf · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can specify to g++ that it should use the old ABI (-fabi=102). The bigger problem is that it uses a different version of libstdc++, and the versioning in there has not yet been solved as well as it has been in libc.

  5. Re:slackware and debian by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    LSB is a goal for debian that should be satisifed in Sarge. see:
    http://people.debian.org/~taggart/lsb/

  6. Actually... by yoshi_mon · · Score: 4, Informative

    Debian is listed as a "Silver Member" on their group member page.

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  7. Re:slackware and debian by thephotoman · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, neither uses the required RPM format. I know, it's screwey. RPM shouldn't be the standard...tarballs should. Alas, nobody wants to deal with tarballs anymore--except Slackware and Gentoo users.

    But one must admit that installing DEB packages without using some kind of apt-get is a bit of a pain.

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  8. Terpstra DOESN'T work for Caldera by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Read the date on your link. Terpstra worked for Caldera in 2001, when they were a Linux company. As far as I can tell, he never worked for SCO, new or old.

    Try Google. You may have heard of it. He now works for PrimaStasys, Inc.

    I'm disgusted that you attempted to link someone who has done so much for Free software with SCO.

  9. Re:bullshit by jschottm · · Score: 2, Informative

    Intel being x86, in exclusion of Power, Sparc, Alpha, and the other architectures that Linux runs on. Use your mind a little before spouting naughty words.

  10. Not really by Alan+Cox · · Score: 3, Informative

    Firstly the LSB covers several platforms nowdays, secondly its goal is to create common packages. That means getting the same package running on Red Hat and SuSE regardless of whether its proprietary or free software.

  11. Re:/opt ? by DenialS · · Score: 2, Informative
    Declaring something "useless" means nothing if you haven't backed up your opinon with some rationales. You don't like /media because Redhat put cdroms in /mnt/cdrom? Fine, say so. Or you don't like it because it has too many vowels and should be /mda? Okay, great. But back up your opinion with some rationale. Otherwise it's just an assertion that takes up space.

    Oh, and provide your rationale to those (like Rusty and Dan) who actually set the standards. Whining about it on Slashdot is hardly the way to achieve any change.

    Here's what the FHS says about /media, by the way:

    /media : Mount point for removeable media
    Purpose
    This directory contains subdirectories which are used as mount points for removeable media such as floppy disks, cdroms and zip disks.
    Rationale
    Historically there have been a number of other different places used to mount removeable media such as /cdrom, /mnt or /mnt/cdrom. Placing the mount points for all removeable media directly in the root directory would potentially result in a large number of extra directories in /. Although the use of subdirectories in /mnt as a mount point has recently been common, it conflicts with a much older tradition of using /mnt directly as a temporary mount point.
  12. Re:slackware and debian by Nailer · · Score: 2, Informative

    the LSB folks have thumbed their nose at Debian repeatedly, but for some reason they keep trying.

    How? Last time I checked, it was Red Hat and Suse who had to make sure their init scripts were under the LSB decided standard location - not Debian, whose location was chosen as the standard.

    Having software work consistently anywhere is a good thing.

    And most Debian gripes about RPM are from people who think apt is a packaging system. It isn't - dpkg is. And most of your gripes are solved with up2date, yum, or apt (the RPM version).