Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 18th Oct 2005 11:44 UTC
Adobe, IBM, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Novell, RealNetworks and Red Hat are all backing the new Linux standards effort led by the Free Standards Group. The nonprofit organisation plans to marshal their resources to form standards for key components of Linux desktop software, including libraries, application runtime and install time. The group said Monday that it will encourage software developers to use its guidelines when building programs for Linux as part of its Linux Standard Base project.
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Member since:"What we need is standard that specifies the correct term. :-)"
Which would promptly be ignored by Linus as being bullshit, and then there-after be packaged in RPM, DEB and assorted other formats that will unpack themselves to different directories based on the Distributer's whim.
Red Hat's will require GNOME as a dependancy (as it uses aspell for some of it's sub-packages), and Debian won't include it in anything other than Sid for the forseeable future.
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dylansmrjones wrote:
>Well, it should be distribution.
>
>But some people probably get confused over the distro->distribution thing :p
What we need is standard that specifies the correct term. :-)