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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. Re:who? by Nadir · · Score: 5, Informative

    > How he is considered qualified to talk about the LSB when it doesn't have much of anything to do with Glibc, I don't know.

    Probably because the LSB was created so that commercial binaries can run on any LSB-compatible distro. A key part of this is also related to symbol versioning in Glibc. As Ulrich is maintainer of Glibc, and as he works for Redhat which has to guarantee LSB certification, I guess he's entitle to talk about the LSB.

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