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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."

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  1. Package management by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What the LSB should, imo, do is make autopackage the format of choice for installing applications and then have the default package manager (such as rpms and debs and stuff) to download the dependent libs and keep the base system up-to-date. That way, everyone's happy. The newbies get their easy program installers and the seasoned veterans get their apt. But, alas, it's apparently not to be.

  2. 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.

  3. LSB by gustgr · · Score: 5, Funny

    The article gets funnier when you read LSB as Least Significant Bit.

  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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