Four Linux Vendors Agree On An LSB Implemenation

An anonymous reader submits a link to this story at Linuxlookup.com which says that "Connectiva, Mandrakesoft, Progeny and Turbolinux today announce the creation of a common implementation of the LSB 2.0 which will serve as the base for future products. The project, called 'Linux Core Consortium' (LCC), is backed by Linux supporters such as Computer Associates, HP, Novell, Red Hat, Sun, OSDL, and the Free Standards Group."

Comments

LSB?

[DaHat]

It's taken this long to decide on what is the Least Significant Bit?

Is that not it? It sure would be nice if the editors would stop posting articles that do not describe what they are intending to be describing.

Re:LSB?

[RandoX]

LSB is obviously USB for Linux. Version 2.0 should offer twice as much throughput as LSB 1.0.

This is good news

[gowen]

Hell, it would be good news if it was just "Two Linux Vendors Agree ... on anything"

Article Short on details

[ezavada]

I didn't see much about what it would actually consist of. Does anyone have links to such info?

Will this include glibc standardization?

Server dead at 9:40 am EST, may it rest in pieces

[ClippyHater]

Only one comment and you bastards have killed the server. Now that I honestly can't RTFA, let me resume normal slashdot mode:

In further news, the LSB implementation of the LCC Project will require LSD usage to be fully appreciated.

Thanks you, thank you, I'll be silly all night. Be sure to tip your kernel hackers.

What LSB is

[Anonymous Coward]

What is the LSB Project?

The goal of the LSB is to develop and promote a set of binary standards that will increase compatibility among Linux systems (and other similar systems), and enable software applications to run on any conforming system. In addition, the LSB will help coordinate efforts to recruit software vendors to port and write products for such systems.

What Does LSB Stand For?

The acronym LSB stands for Linux Standard Base. A key goal that led to the formation of the LSB project was to try to prevent the divergence of Linux-based systems, thus a name indicating base functionality for Linux. Note that the project prefers the use of the acronym LSB over the spelled-out Linux Standard Base to reduce the misconception that this is a Linux-only standard (see next question).

source: LSB faq

Was that difficult? No.

mandrake link

[falkryn]

You can also go here:

http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/briefs?n =/mandrakesoft/actions/2522

and here:

http://www.mandrakesoft.com/lcc/faq

Huh?

[Skeezix]

How does the announcement that they will work together to insure interoperability mean that RPM is losing popularity? Keep in mind the major vendors are still RPM-based: Red Hat, Novell SUSE, JDS (SUSE based), Mandrake...