On Wednesday 02 October 2002 8:51 pm, Andy Sy wrote: > Redhat is such a widespread and influential distro > that a large part of the future of Linux lies in their > hands and they know this. Red Hat clearly wants to > fragment the Linux desktop and benefit commercially > from any differences because it knows it has the clout > to make such a deviation from a standard stick. There > is a good chance that commercial Linux app developers > would actually be more likely to make their apps work > with the RH-mutated KDE desktop than a standard KDE > one. For instance, commercial Linux apps like Kylix > from Borland specifically require Red Hat (or Suse) to > run on.
This is one puzzle that I wish I knew the answer. How can Red Hat be LSB-compliant when they have customized KDE and Gnome? Can it be true that the LSB does not concern itself with desktops at the moment, only the kernel, and other standard GNU/Linux libraries? Thanks for voicing out the concern for third-party KDE / Gnome apps. There are a lot of third-party apps out there that run on systems hoping that the standard KDE/Gnome desktop layer works. If Red Hat breaks this layer, then those apps won't work, and developers may be forced to develop a version specifically for Red Hat (then for United Linux, or other distros should they decide to follow suit and do crippled versions of their own). We'd go back to having the same sad fate of numerous proprietary Unixes that flourished and died over their own divisiveness. Thoughts? -- mikol "There is no concept more closer to intellectual emancipation than free software. Freedom to responsibly code and share in its most free and pure form." -- Floyd Robinson, September 24, 2002 _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
