Linked by Rahul on Fri 17th Oct 2008 20:07 UTC
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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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.
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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2006-05-19
How many Linux distributions are actually LSB certified?