Breakthrough for Penguin-Heads

Submitted by John J. Karcher 2002-02-02 Linux 3 Comments

“Linux users’ and developers’ lives have just gotten a little easier. The Free Standards Group released two tools on Thursday intended to ensure that all Linux applications can run on any Linux Standard Base-compliant version of the open source operating system: LSB 1.1 and Li18nux 1.0. Some commercial application developers, including Microsoft, have slammed open source development, saying that it lacks the necessary controls to define the common programming standards that need to be used across different projects to ensure compatibility.” Read the rest of the story at Wired.

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3 Comments

2002-02-02 10:14 am

Anonymous
This is good. Standards are really needed.

The debians will probably find it hard to agree with RPM as the standard package format though.

Also important is the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (LSB #includes this)

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/“

2002-02-02 9:08 pm

Anonymous

No debian can live with rpm. Debs might be a little better over al,l however apt-get works with rpm and you can use alien to convert a rpm to a deb. Its really a non issue.

2002-02-03 1:10 pm

Anonymous

I tried more than once to get those nifty .rpm in my system, and while alien can nicely make a .deb out of it 4 out of 5 times the binary fails to run. Wrong library version, or some tweaking done in the binary to run well on a Redhat system. Most of the time I get “undefined symbol” and my command line prompt back to me earlier than I’d wish.

I have taken a liking to debian and it’s .deb, it would need a great force to make me and, I guess, the thousand others Debian followers.

apt-get install debian everyone