-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
On Wednesday 27 November 2002 02:52, John Hall wrote:
> > >Honestly, I'm surprised if you don't think the file system is cluttered.
> > >Have you taken a look in /etc or /usr/bin lately?
>
> LSB (Linux Standards Base) was designed to take care of some of this, but
> currently has been implemented (certified) by only 3 vendors IIRC: SuSE,
> Mandrake, & one other.
Red Hat, Connectiva, SCO Linux (thanks to United Linux), Debian and even
Solaris are either all moving to support the LSB or are already there. hooray
for progress!
> If LSB does not go far enough, perhaps we need to clamour for LSB2.
the LSB isn't "done". they are working on covering areas that aren't
adequately standardized in the current version, which is a lot of things. it
isn't complete enough to be The Answer at this point, but it is a lot closer
than we (the UNIX community) has ever been.
no thanks to people who keep saying we need to abandon the LSB because it
sucks, of course.
> Having got some standards in place, WE (the subset of users that don't
> enjoy unnecessary pain) need to beat up on non-compliant vendors, and to
> abandon them if they won't comply in a reasonable time.
exactly. support LSB compliant distros only and the world will be a better
place in the future. well, maybe not the WORLD, but our servers at least ;-)
- --
Aaron J. Seigo
GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler"
- Albert Einstein
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux)
iD8DBQE95YDo1rcusafx20MRAuyFAKCW+V0WV/CFkGOq1+EmjRwPnSGNsQCeJdVo
ZMb2blVQC0++07ln/x6N3+Q=
=6eAA
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
