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Linux Standard Base is the perfect retort
Leader The Linux Standard Base project is set to get a boost from a number of vendors today, when they’re expected to announce support for the LSB 2.0 specification, which was released at the end of September.
[September 13, 2004, 12:00]
Red Hat flagship backs Linux standard
News Dominant Linux-provider Red Hat has given a boost to Linux standardisation efforts with this week's broad Linux Standards Base (LSB) certification of the company's flagship product, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.
[December 11, 2003, 14:40]
Linux standard eases programming
News The Free Standards Group released version 1.0 of the Linux Standard Base specification Friday, a move aimed at reducing the difficulties of getting software such as Oracle's database to run on versions of Linux from Red Hat, Debian, SuSE and others.
[July 3, 2001, 9:33]
Linux standard improves C++ support
News The Linux Standards Base (LSB) now offers improved support for C++, meaning that software compiled using the latest versions of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) can be run on any distribution that supports the standard.
[September 20, 2005, 16:55]
CA throws its weight behind Linux standard
News The additional membership comes as the FSG this week released the latest version of its flagship Linux Standard Base (LSB) specification. The newly revamped Linux Standards Base has got three new supporters this week
[September 23, 2005, 8:50]
Linux standards tool adds app testing
News The Linux Foundation has included an application-checker tool in the public beta version of the Linux Standard Base 4.0. The software is designed to reduce development costs by ensuring applications can run on any Linux Standard Base (LSB...
[October 21, 2008, 15:20]
Linux standard gets powerful support
News The Free Standards Group (FSG), an organisation which promotes open-source standards, announced on Monday that 20 vendors of Linux-based hardware, software and services will back Linux Standard Base 2.0 (LSB).
[September 13, 2004, 18:55]
Korean interest boosts open-source Asianux
News Using a shared kernel and other common components, Asianux acts as a common base for both companies' server operating systems so software and hardware makers need not certify their products with two different versions of Linux.
[July 21, 2004, 9:35]
Linux Standards Base wins more support
News These forward-thinking ISVs have realised their support for the Linux Standard Base will reduce their development and testing costs and provide more choice to their end users," said Zemlin in a statement.
[March 22, 2005, 15:10]
Linux standards base widens
News The group said Monday that it will encourage software developers to use its guidelines when building programs for Linux as part of its Linux Standard Base project. It plans to give compliant applications a "Linux Standard Base Desktop...
[October 18, 2005, 9:50]
Microsoft debases Linux standards
News Various Linux vendors including Red Hat, Novell SuSE and Mandrakesoft support Linux Standards Base, a software blueprint that seeks to standardise some aspects of Linux to make it easier for software vendors to create programs that run on various...
[February 1, 2005, 11:20]
Portland looks to unite Linux GUIs
News Ultimately, advocates hope it will be part of a larger but separate effort called the Linux Standard Base, which is designed to make the operating system easier on software companies. Portland is promising because the historical lack of uniformity...
[April 4, 2006, 17:20]
Linux vendors move to standard platform
News The new distribution will comply with the Linux Standards Base, a project for standardising Linux platforms across the industry, as well as the Li18nux standard for internationalisation. The efforts of SuSE, Caldera and Turbolinux parallel the work...
[May 30, 2002, 9:43]
Linux standard gets stamp of approval
News The launch of the Linux Standards Base certification programme comes six months after the introduction of Linux Standards Base 1.1, a major advancement in the standardisation project, which had long lain dormant.
[July 2, 2002, 13:48]
Trouble ahead for Linux?
News While efforts like the Linux Standard Base movement will help, even if it continues its slow pace, the Linux developer community would find some way of keeping the code straight. It would do so because there are hundreds of open-source programmers...
[March 28, 2000, 9:24]
Lineo responds to Microsoft attack
News To find a more appropriate browser for the embedded space Microsoft offers Pocket IE (PIE), which is a different code base than IE and has neither the features nor third party support of embedded Linux browsers or of IE.
[December 17, 2001, 14:53]
Accelerating AMD
News And so my bias is, once you got a base platform, you want to effectively then build on that very quickly at all levels. I think AMD now is at the point that the base hardware level is very competitive, and the question for us now is, "Okay, you...
[January 4, 2006, 16:55]
Asp4all Achieves Critical Certification With Red Hat
White Papers The company wanted to build a standardized, high-availability application-, web- and database-server environment that would ensure security, interoperablity with multiple database systems, and cost efficiency for a growing customer base.
[May 15, 2007, 1:00]
Linux standardisation efforts move ahead
News The effort, through Linux Standard Base (LSB) and several other projects, is Linux's answer to avoiding some of the fragmentation that split Unix -- the operating system upon which Linux is modelled -- into several incompatible versions.
[March 16, 2001, 9:04]
Standardised Linux gains support
News Four new versions of Linux have been certified to comply with guidelines set down by the Linux Standard Base, a group trying to make it easier for software to run on different companies' versions of the Unix clone.
[October 9, 2002, 8:07]
