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. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 258 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080618/41c74076/attachment-0005.sig>