getting started
George Kraft
gk4 at swbell.net
Tue Oct 26 22:37:09 EEST 2004
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 12:00, Mike Hearn wrote:
> Oh, I just realised I forgot something - by "certified" I assumed George
> was talking about eg ISO standardisation/certification as they
> are/were aiming for. I understand the value of an LSB defined platform,
> but I'm not sure about the value of getting it stamped by some
> third-party standards body.
I was referring to the FSG's LSB product standards.
http://lsbbook.gforge.freestandards.org/achieve-cert.html
There are currently 35 releases of Linux that have been LSB certified.
The distros are signing trademark licenses agreements that they are
following the LSB. This reduces fragmentation.
http://www.linuxbase.org/test/registered.html
What is missing are GUI toolkits like Gtk+ and Qt. The LSB needs
freedesktop.org to do this work (which is also the most PC). ;-)
The ISO stuff is just icing on the cake. It gives formal international
recognition to Linux for bureaucrats to recognize. :-)
--
George (gk4)
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