Re: getting started

On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 12:00, Mike Hearn wrote:
> Oh, I just realised I forgot something - by "certified" I assumed George 
>   was talking about eg ISO standardisation/certification as they 
> are/were aiming for. I understand the value of an LSB defined platform, 
> but I'm not sure about the value of getting it stamped by some 
> third-party standards body.

I was referring to the FSG's LSB product standards.

http://lsbbook.gforge.freestandards.org/achieve-cert.html

There are currently 35 releases of Linux that have been LSB certified. 
The distros are signing trademark licenses agreements that they are
following the LSB.  This reduces fragmentation.

http://www.linuxbase.org/test/registered.html

What is missing are GUI toolkits like Gtk+ and Qt.  The LSB needs
freedesktop.org to do this work (which is also the most PC).  ;-)

The ISO stuff is just icing on the cake.  It gives formal international
recognition to Linux for bureaucrats to recognize. :-)

-- 
George (gk4)