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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. SCO... by Nos. · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Has two products listed on the compliancy page. Caldera set to expire near the end of this week, and SCO Linux Server set to expire next month. I wonder if they'll try to get renewed.

  2. All your base by hhg · · Score: 5, Funny

    All your standard-base are belong to us!

  3. 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!

  4. 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.

  5. Gentoo... maybe kinda... by temojen · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Certification of gentoo is almost certainly out of the picture, as you can't know from one system to annother which libraries are installed.

    This might be an interesting use for slots though. Someone could build a series of ebuilds that require the specific library versions that the LSB specifies, and keeps them in slots (so they're not unmerged when they're upgraded). Then a Gentoo user who has emerged "LSB-Base" would have a decent chance to be able to run any LSB 2.0 requiring binary package.

  6. quote by dtfinch · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "For payment terms please contact The Free Standards Group"