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Java Trial Support Coming In Linux Standard Base

Posted by timothy on from the chai-unfairly-excluded dept.

LinuxScribe writes "Java isn't in the LSB — yet. It's been a hard target to hit: which version gets standardized? How will test suites work? But the new version of LSB will take the first steps towards Java inclusion in standardized Linux development by introducing trial support for the language."

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  1. Source by Enderandrew · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The LSB still doesn't make much in the way for accommodations for source-based distros. And while I laud its efforts, the LSB also states that distros should standardize on RPMs where as the one distro taking off like a rocket is DEB based and unlikely to ever move over to RPMs.

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    1. Re:Source by tenco · · Score: 3, Interesting

      It took off like a rocket and then Intel dumped it for an RPM-based distro.

      Go figure.

      Ubuntu isn't as well suited for mobile devices as fedora is?

      It just goes to show that Ubuntu being popular has nothing to do with it's packaging system OR anything to do with it being any good as a distribution. Mark Shuttleworth really knows how to market things..

      You think? I use Ubuntu because Debian stable is outdated most of the time. And for me one major reason for Debian is it's package managment system. Just look how many distros are based on Debian vs. how many are based on fedora or openSuSe (distrowatch).

    2. Re:Source by Jason+Earl · · Score: 3, Interesting

      The LSB is a horrible idea, and it needs to die a sudden, instant, and even immediate death.

      You see, the original plan for the LSB was that it would be a installable binary platform that you could install on test hardware and actually use. Perens was involved, and so the original plan was to use Debian as the base for this distribution as it gave them an immediate code base to work with that had been ported to a large number of hardware platforms.

      Unfortunately, Caldera didn't want an installable binary distribution, as it thought that an actual working distribution would cut into sales of its product. Red Hat agreed with Caldera mostly because the folks at Red Hat knew that if a binary standard wasn't produced then Red Hat would become the de-facto binary standard.

      That's why we have the LSB, and that's why the LSB is about 7 orders of magnitude less important than CentOS, Oracle's Red Hat clone, or any number of Red Hat derivatives all of which simply treat Red Hat Linux as a binary standard.

      The LSB is clunky to use, impossible to test against, and specifies so little software that it is basically a joke.