Its not a matter of licensing. Since the days of various Linux distros, coming up with diff schemes made it difficult for developers to target a Linux. Hence the need to give the source, go compile in your own system mentality. This puts off many non techie ppl. Just imagine when a driver or application can be packaged irregardless of the linux distro and it doesnt need a technical person to install. Wont this makes it easier for entry into Linux? for end-user and developers? Rudi Ahlers wrote: > 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. > -- Nicholas A. Suppiah Training & Certification Manager Open Source Competency Centre (OSCC) MAMPU Tel: 603 8319 1200 Fax: 603 83193206 URL: http://opensource.mampu.gov.my --- Join OSCC MAMPU Mailing Lists http://lists.oscc.org.my/mailman/listinfo/oscc-discuss