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

FIRST HORSE

[Anonymous Coward]

I AM A HORSE!

livejournal!?!?!??!

[Anonymous Coward]

slashdot is now posting livejournal blogs?!??!!?!?

i guess i'll quit bitching about Roland

Wow...

[pfurlong]

I've never actually seen an article yet that had not a single comment on it.

And it's a Linux article, to boot.

grammer police

[CKnight]

"the reason are thought-out well."

Editors, get on this ASAP!!!

Re:grammer police

[JanneM]

"grammer"?

Hmmm....

Re:grammer police

[op12]

Speaking of editing, the linked post could certainly use some:

"My advise: but the losses. Remove any claim that the LSB will ensure any additional level of assurance for developers. To some extend, I think, the claims a scaled back meanwhile, if I understood Art correctly."

"is a somewhat good reflection of who a Linux implementation should behave "

"we file bugs and wait of the test to be waived."

Re:WE NEED STANDARDS

[schmu_20mol]

RTFA and don't bother people with giving the same flamebait everytime there is a discussion about standards.

Re:WE NEED STANDARDS

[Anonymous Coward]

You nailed it exactly!

Re:Ulrich Who?

[baryon351]

> assuming he's someone since ./ quoted him in an article.

I don't want to sound like a smartarse, but is there a reason most people write "slashdot" as ./ (which looks to be dotslash to me).

I'm not the ultrageek who is certain just what the name 'slashdot' is meant to mean, so explanations in short words is good for me :)

Re:WE NEED STANDARDS

[Anonymous Coward]

Linux is *not* user friendly, and until it is linux will stay with >1% marketshare.

I don't care. I'd like to see more originality from /. trolls though.

(BTW, I think you mean <1%.)

Re:Linux is too fragmented

[Anonymous Coward]

And yet, he still has a point. Hence, the insightful/interesting mod points.

Re:Linux is too fragmented

[It doesn't come easy]

Hey, this is Slashdot...dups are allowed...

Attention moderators, parent is trolling.

[Anonymous Coward]

This was posted here and here

Apple did what redhat should have, train gone..

[xtal]

Redhat should have given us OSX based on linux. They didn't; Apple gave people free, reliable and supported unix based on top of BSD instead. I used to run linux, guess what this comment is being written on?

The ship has sailed for desktop linux IMHO. Apple got your candy. Linux is doing VERY well in the server arena, and this is where I'd be focusing my efforts; if you look at where the money is being spent by Redhat, IBM et al. now, it is on the server side and server side applications. The desktop has already been lost.

This isn't a bad thing.. I use linux in a lot of places; embedded linux is going to be HUGE, you think the microsoft tax is bad.. but the desktop I'm not optimistic about at all anymore.

Many will disagree with me, but OSX is hard to beat on the desktop. I've got a half dozen X11 windows open to various servers now, and the X11 install was painless and worked first time! :)

Re:I agree, but something needs to happen

[Anonymous Coward]

> problem of obtaining software packages drives
> me to the end of my nerves

I think we should dismiss this rant as offtopic and nonsense ("have "management" provide leadership by imposing structure ...").

why does he dislike the least signifianct bit?

[CaptainJeff]

What does this guy have against the Least Significant Bit/Byte (LSB) anyway? Geez...

Re:who?

[Briareos]

Fefe - is that you? o_O;

np: Barbara Morgenstern - Mjisnjedschaz (Fjorden)