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Linux Standard Effort Edges Ahead

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the for-some-definition-of-ahead dept.

ErikPeterson writes "The Free Standards Group has released its third version of the Linux Standard Base, an effort to unify some of the workings of the open-source operating system. The LSB is designed to make it easier for those producing higher-level software to support different versions of Linux. Pledges to conform to the requirements of Version 3 are Red Hat, Novell's Suse Linux, Asianux and Debian."

8 of 138 comments (clear)

  1. LSB Website by Grey_14 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Why doesn't he blurb link to the LSB website at all? it's here Anyway's.

  2. Release notes by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here are the LSB 3.0 Release notes. I'd appreciate it if somebody explained if there is a significant or revolution or something. Thank you.

  3. Re:Standards by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, that's a de facto standard. We're talking de jure, as in planned and drafted.

  4. Re:Standards by afr0byte · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yeah, and what percentage of Linux usage do these distros encompass? Based on Linux Counter, these distros (including fedora for redhat) encompass 41.31% of users. If Mandrake, for example, jumps on board then that'll be over 50%, a majority. I'm not even counting Asianux, because I couldn't find a number on that.

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  5. Re:Making progress... by Cronopios · · Score: 4, Informative

    Despite the original post, it wasn't Debian who pledged to conform to this standard, but the Debian Common Core Alliance.

    Nor Debian nor Ubuntu are part of it.

    Btw, in a recent post on his blog, Red Hat's Ulrich Drepper makes some criticisms of the LSB and its shortcomings of the v3 certification process.

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  6. Re:Whose standard? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think this page might be of interest to you.

  7. Re:Package management by Benanov · · Score: 2, Informative

    Autopackage isn't quite integrated with the default package manager yet (per their website, http://autopackage.org/) Once that happens I can see that being very likely. ;)

  8. Re:timing issue by fimbulvetr · · Score: 3, Informative

    Check the story from a couple days ago:

    http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/19/ 1128201&tid=156&tid=163&tid=8&tid=106

    Basically, Ulrich Drepper, maintainer of glibc was complaining about how the LSB certification is broken because it's tests are poorly coded and introduce race conditions when ran on fast (read: maybe 700Mhz+ processors) SMP machines.

    Here's a direct link to the article:
    http://www.livejournal.com/users/udrepper/8511.htm l