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" -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other technical stuff, or visit http://www.WebHostingTalk.co.za for Web Hosting stuff