On Wednesday, December 08, 2010 01:02:10 pm Les Mikesell wrote:
Standards committees have their ways of breaking all previous existing implementations with their final decrees. Let me know when they are finished.
Standards committees are never finished.
Linux is not standardized, either; in the case of CentOS, SELinux is a de facto standard as it's in the default install set. Linux != posix.
The inertia of the installed set means what you learn now will still be usable in the future. Much like with Linux itself.