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Ulrich Drepper On The LSB

Posted by Hemos on from the all-life's-a-stage dept.

Sam Lowry writes "In a recent post at his livejournal, Ulrich Drepper criticizes the LSB standard and urges the distributions to drop it." It's an interesting piece; Ulrich raises some good points.

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  1. Linux needs a stable ABI *BADLY* by An+Ominous+Cow+Erred · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This really can't go on, with developers releasing binaries for every distribution under the sun that people badger them enough to support. There needs to be a common, intelligent interface to shared libraries that works regardless of when or how the library was compiled!

    There also needs to be a stable driver ABI so that we don't have to recompile the kernel module wrapper for every kernel we build -- assuming the manufacturer even gives you wrapper code. Linux on the desktop simply is not going to succeed with issues like these! :: frustrated and right now trying to port drivers for the Highpoint 1820A to kernel 2.6.13 since some deprecated code got removed IN A STABLE KERNEL SERIES and now the compile breaks ::