On Wednesday 21 August 2002 12:27 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Wednesday August 21 2002 10:44 am, Patrik Marxer wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I like Mandrake, I use it and support it as much as I can. I mention > > this to say that this is no flame mail. Nevertheless I am bothered by > > an article in a computer magazine: > > > > On http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/investors/bsa/faq2 there is > > mentioned a lot about "The importance of respecting standards". I > > think everybody agrees on that. > > In the computer magazine c't (http://www.heise.de/ct/) of the > > 2002.07.29 they compare some Linux distributions, namely Suse (8), > > Red Hat (7.2), Debian (3) and Mandrake (8.2). (page 146) > > About Mandrake they mention that it has _poor_ support for Linux > > Standard Base (73 LSB errors of which 4 are errors in the File > > Hierachy Standard) (Suse: LSB: 7, FHS: 0 / Red Hat LSB: 8 and FHS: > > 0). > > http://www.opengroup.org/lsb/cert/cert_prodlist.tpl?CALLER=index.tpl > > Right from the horses mouth. Note that Mandrake was LSB certified > before either Red Hat or Suse were.
The certification is for Prosuite 8.2 with the update CD. Perhaps there are differences between that version and the version that c't used. Hmm... will 9.0 be LSB-compliant? Which versions? -- cmg
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