Nicholas wrote:
Wow!
Thats a lot of money. The Pass thru mentioned, does it also mean that payment need to be made?
I wonder what is the purpose of them charging so much?
Scott Silva wrote:
on 6-18-2008 6:55 AM Johnny Hughes spake the following:
Nicholas wrote:
Herrold,
I meant RH, in terms of the RHEL distro. I look forward to have centos gain the LSB, what is needed for the pass thru? is the main CentOS community interested?
As for the rest, thank you for the sharing of info.
The LSB should be concern to encourage developers to built stuff that can be used across distros. LSB should reduce problems of desktop users who have been finding difficulty in getting stuff like printer drivers and other paraphernalia. The more distros adopting LSB then more developers/manufacturers will be encouraged on the use of LSB.
Well .. I have run the latest testing scripts and CentOS-5.1 passes the 3.1 LSB for Core and Desktop.
It does not pass the 3.2 LSB tests yet (neither does RHEL-5).
I will work with Russ to see if I can get CentOS certified without paying $20,000.00 a year to make it happen.
If we have to pay for this, well we can't be certified.
Note, only one version of Ubuntu (6.0.6 LTS) and no Debian or Fedora versions are certified.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
I really believe that any "standards" organization that charges that much is just extorting money for a small perceived benefit. If it passes the testing scripts, that should be enough for a "free" distribution. Microsoft does the same thing for its "certified" drivers. They charge an extortion fee for the service.
Sorry to ask this, but what exactly is the LSB? What will CentOS (and probably) the community gain from it? I mean, apart from RedHat Enterprise, Suse Enterpise and the other commercial Linux's, most other linuxes are not certified AFAIK.
I know CentOS stands out above the rest in many areas, and is very close to RedHat, in many aspects. But won't a certification shove it into the commercial software "class"