LWN.net Logo

Distros, not ISVs, more deserve some help

Distros, not ISVs, more deserve some help

Posted Aug 1, 2008 12:54 UTC (Fri) by k3ninho (subscriber, #50375)
In reply to: Distros, not ISVs, more deserve some help by coriordan
Parent article: Will LSB 4 Standardize Linux? (InternetNews)

Perhaps one direction would be to have ISV's use a "LSB distro" against which they can test
their packages.  If it works on the LSB edition, it should work against any other GNU/Linux
distribution also certified to meet the LSB.

However, I doubt that the distributors will agree easily about the minimal content for such a
distribution.  These days, such an idea may even be moot if the QA process can test against VM
images of Debian Stable, Ubuntu LTS, SUSE and Red Hat Enterprise (it's not like there's
licensing costs...).

K3n.


(Log in to post comments)

Copyright © 2012, Eklektix, Inc.
Comments and public postings are copyrighted by their creators.
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds