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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."

3 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. 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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  3. 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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