Linux Foundation announces LSB 4.0 Beta
Linked by Rahul on Fri 17th Oct 2008 20:07 UTC
Linux Linux Foundation has announced Linux Standard Base 4.0 beta. LSB attempts to provide a consistent Linux platform for ISV's. These are a number of changes. Following Red Hat's efforts to consolidate on NSS, LSB has endorsed it as the cryptography solution as well as providing new distribution tests and tools for certification of third party applications.
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by antik on Sat 18th Oct 2008 16:28 UTC
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2006-05-19

How many Linux distributions are actually LSB certified?

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RE: one question only
by DrillSgt on Sat 18th Oct 2008 16:48 UTC in reply to "one question only"
DrillSgt Member since:
2005-12-02

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/lsb-cert/productdir.php?by_prod

There is a list. Not that many compared to the number of distros out there. I find it surprising the likes of Fedora, Debian, and Slackware are not to be found on the list, so not certified. Also interesting is that current versions of OpenSuse or Ubuntu have not bothered to be certified, though they were at one point. I really hope this is not another dying idea.

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RE[2]: one question only
by Michael on Sat 18th Oct 2008 19:02 UTC in reply to "RE: one question only"
Michael Member since:
2005-07-01

I find it surprising the likes of Fedora, Debian, and Slackware are not to be found on the list, so not certified.

I believe certification costs money, which is why community driven distros like Debian and Fedora do not have it. This doesn't mean they aren't LSB compliant, of course.

They really need to fix this situation. Those are three of the most important distros, forming the basis of countless others. They should be certified if the LSB is to be of real value.

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RE[3]: one question only
by Detlef Niehof on Sat 18th Oct 2008 19:12 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: one question only"
Detlef Niehof Member since:
2006-05-02

I guess more interesting than this rather short list of certified distros would be a list of distros that claim to conform to a particular version of the LSB.
Does such a list exist?

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RE[4]: one question only
by raboof on Sun 19th Oct 2008 10:45 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: one question only"
raboof Member since:
2005-07-24

Though Debian strives[1] to follow and comply with the Linux Standard Base, and the 'lsb' package is sufficient for most practical purposes, it explicitly[2] doesn't claim full compliance...

[1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLsb
[2] http://packages.debian.org/etch/lsb

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RE[3]: one question only
by DrillSgt on Sat 18th Oct 2008 21:16 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: one question only"
DrillSgt Member since:
2005-12-02

"I believe certification costs money, which is why community driven distros like Debian and Fedora do not have it. This doesn't mean they aren't LSB compliant, of course."

Certification is at no cost and done by the Linux Foundation.

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RE[4]: one question only
by Michael on Mon 20th Oct 2008 12:16 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: one question only"
Michael Member since:
2005-07-01

Interesting. Does any know why Fedora and Debain aren't certified?

I see Fedora has a "redhat-lsb" which appears to serve a similar purpose to the above-mentioned DebianLsb.

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