Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > Rudi Ahlers wrote: > > >> 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" >> > > LSB or Linux Standard Base, is a way of assuring VARs, developers and > contractors that the Linux systems that are certified under this all > have a standard file system structure and contain a defined set of > minimum system utilities. > > This way when they write software they can be rest assured that if the > system is LSB certified that it will contain the 'bash' utility, that > utility will be in /usr/bin, man pages will be in /usr/share/man, etc. > > This way they only have to write 1 set of installation packages and > not a separate package for each Linux distribution they wish to > develop for. > > -Ross > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Cool, thanx for the explanation :) I suppose it doesn't change the licensing at all. -- 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