Not until 3rd parties support LSB

Posted Oct 26, 2006 21:46 UTC (Thu) by thyrsus (guest, #21004)
Parent article: Oracle's Red Hat rip-off (Linux-Watch)

We were running Tao Linux (recompiled Red Hat source code) for a while, but our 3rd party software vendors specify Red Hat RHEL as the supported platform, so just to make sure those 3rd parties don't say "Tao what? Go away." to our support calls we bought a lot of Red Hat licenses. I have mixed feelings about that. It would be better if 3rd parties simply wrote to and specified compatibility with Linux Standard Base, but that would mean having an easy means to certify that a platform was LSB, and testing your code against the LSB semantics. I suspect neither is currently feasible.

If Red Hat suffers serious financial fallout from Oracle's move, then Oracle would either have to buy Red Hat or start making up for the development investment that Red Hat would be forced to curtail. I'll presume that Oracle isn't interested in killing the golden goose.

Not until 3rd parties support LSB

Posted Oct 27, 2006 4:11 UTC (Fri) by dberkholz (guest, #23346) [Link]

A minute of research shows it's pretty easy to certify LSB compliance -- See http://www.freestandards.org/en/Certification or http://www.freestandards.org/en/Platform_Tests

To get true "certification" however, you need to pay a steep fee. But you can show that your distribution is LSB-compliant quite easily.