The Open Source Development Labs announced today that Debian has registered the Sarge release as compliant with its Carrier Grade Linux 2.0.2 specification. The move brings Debian in line with offerings from commercial vendors such as Red Hat, Novell, and Motorola.
COOL – I think .
If I get this fully – then it means that soon there will be a fully open source OS furfilling CGL requirements V 2 & sometime – well – the later revisions.
It should mean that proper security & many more features which are available now as special projects & patches will become mainstream in a big distro .
Or am I wrong ?
IMO this is really significant – I guess people just ignore it because its Linux & big business and not Linux & freedom of software etc .
“Linux is expected run 30 percent of voice and data communications equipment applications worldwide b y 2010. ”
-> Maybe that would have produced some comments .
🙂
Debian has done a lot of work lately to become more standards compliant, this CGL specification is just one example of the work done in Debian. There are also many Debian-based distros (Ubuntu being one of the most popular at the moment) and all these can enjoy the benefits of Debian’s success.
I think it’s great that a big successful business enterprise like HP favours a non-profit distro like Debian GNU/Linux. It’s a good example that goes to show that commercial companies don’t necessarily need to use commercial distros like Red Hat or Novell’s SUSE for their GNU/Linux solutions.
This is not to say that there’s anything wrong with commercial distros but GNU/Linux is about choice and, for this reason, it’s vitally important that there are also non-profit distros like Debian with strong community following that can in some cases offer more flexible GNU/Linux solutions to business companies than the offerings of commercial distros.
It’s also good to remember that Debian is developed in co-operation with many consultants and partners that can offer professional-level world-wide paid support for Debian-based GNU/Linux solutions:
http://www.debian.org/consultants/
http://www.debian.org/partners/