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LSB certifications confuse Sun's Linux standards story (Register)

[Posted August 16, 2002 by ris]

The Register looks at LSB compliance and Sun Linux 5.0. "McNealy's comment seems strange given that, according to Sun's own developer resources, Sun Linux 5.0 is "highly compatible with Red Hat Linux 7.2", and differentiated from Red Hat Linux 7.2 only by different RPM package manager versions and installer functions. Now that Raleigh, North Carolina-based Red Hat is one of the first distributors to become LSB-certified, McNealy's comments look increasingly like smoke and mirrors."

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Posted Aug 17, 2002 22:09 UTC (Sat) by trevor_h (guest, #3316) [Link]

The RedHat LSB certification is for RedHat 7V3 with specific kernel and glibc versions that are as yet unavailable! See http://www.opengroup.org/lsb/cert/cert_prodlist.tpl?CALLER=index.tpl