Ulrich Drepper On The LSB

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.

Comments

Fundamental Question

[Mikey Rowan]

But does it run Linux? Mmmm, something else is gonna drop soon.

False Alarm!

[Anonymous Coward]

Some other random dude says this isn't true over on his MySpace!

Re:who?

[sxltrex]

I think he's the drummer for Metallica.

It's so good to be mentioned...

[Anonymous Coward]

Until the LSB loses the monetary backing this is unlikely to happen, though. The main reason: people who deal with standards professionally. They of course have everything to lose. These are the same people who brought you useless crap like the Linux ISO spec (based on some old LSB version). These people are paid to participate in calls, meetings, get there travels to exotic places financed. Did you look at the list of meeting places for ISO meetings? I hope the penny squeezers in the companies financing these standardization groups (not only the LSB, there are many more) realize the waste of money most of these efforts are and introduce more control. Yes, something like the Austin Group working group is useful, this is an API standard (as opposed to ABI in case of LSB) which makes it much more realistic and useful. But ISO Linux? Shudder...

Except for the specific references to the LSB & Linux...he's just described my job. OK, not the exotic places. Not that. Or, the ISO meetings...come to think of it, where's my fancy all-expenses-paid travel junket? Damn those standards people!

Re:Ulrich Who?

[LithiumX]

It's a typo.

Wait... they haven't reinstituted floggings for those yet, have they?

Re:WE NEED STANDARDS

[null etc.]

...Oh that's easy! If you have Redhat, you have to download quake_3_rh_8_i686_010203_glibc.bin

Dude thanks! I finally know how to install this game on Linux. The last time I tried, I ended up causing my mother's computer to wardial her friends from her recipe club.

Re:is this really livejournal?

[arkanes]

I can relate. My parents don't understand ABI issues either.

Current mood: Sad :(

Re:is this really livejournal?

[Darkon]

Seriously, wtf is a technical article doing on a site full of whiny emo-kids?

Maybe it's an exchange program of some kind and the teenage girls from LiveJournal are going to start turning up on tech forums?

Re:4 posts so far...

[null etc.]

*sigh* The ./ IQ drops further each day.....

*Sigh* your post on the other hand, does indicate that the average ./ IQ is dropping.

Guys, you're posting to the wrong web site. This is /. , not ./

Re:WE NEED STANDARDS

[Itchy Rich]

Dude thanks! I finally know how to install this game on Linux. The last time I tried, I ended up causing my mother's computer to wardial her friends from her recipe club.

That was you?!!?? My mum's gonna kick your mum's ass! ;)

Re:Apple did what redhat should have, train gone..

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm surprised how well you Mac-trolls can type with only one hand at the keyboard.

Go back to fellating your iPod.

LSB

[Anonymous Coward]

In a recent post at his livejournal, Ulrich Drepper criticizes the LSB standard

And here I thought he was a fan of the MSB: It would have been nice to see him critizise the Least Significant Bit

Damn those abbrivs.

Re:is this really livejournal?

[Xarius]

Sorry, are you talking about slashdot or livejournal?