Latest Linux Standards Base Gets Vendor Support

Neopallium writes to tell us that in a recent announcement at the Desktop Linux Summit the Free Standards Group reports fourteen of the leading Linux vendors have pledged support for the newest release of the Linux Standards Base. From the article: "'The Release of LSB 3.1 is another milestone achieved by the industry and the Open Source Community that delivers ever increasing value to customers,' said Reza Rooholamini, director of enterprise solutions engineering at Dell. 'It enables further uniformity and standardization across applications and distributions that allows quicker deployment of Linux solutions with higher levels of quality.'"

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Interesting Version Number... 3.1

[Chordonblue]

Soooo... 3.1. The first usable version of Windows was 3.1 also. Coincidence?!

Maybe this WILL be the year Linux arrives on the desktop!

Re:Interesting Version Number... 3.1

[Flimzy]

Nah, it won't be usable until Linux for Workgroups 3.11

Re:Is LSB a good thing?

[Spy der Mann]

Here is a standard that specifes how to package APIs and which APIs to use if you want to have a a LSB complient desktop and application. Isn't that a bit restrictive?

It depends on what you call "restrictive"...

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