Linked by David Adams on Mon 4th Aug 2008 19:03 UTC
Not all Linux distributions are made with the same components, which can make it difficult for software developers to write applications for multiple Linux distributions. That's where the Linux Standards Base (LSB) comes into play. For years the LSB has not quite lived up to its full potential. That could all change with the upcoming LSB 4.0 release.
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2006-02-15
I kind of like the variety, I like creativity of different distributions and I would really hate if they all had the same package manager, the same filesystem structure etc. Sometimes different doesn't mean worse.
It doesn't destroy the variety or creativity. It just ensures there's all the needed base libraries, they are accessable in a pre-defined way and that if your application works with one LSB distro it should work on all of them. It does NOT have anything to do with boot-up, themes, applications included and so forth. Those are left to distros themselves.