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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]
Linux Standards Base Wins More Support
News A clutch of independent software vendors (ISVs) have agreed to support Linux Standards Base (LSB), a set of standards that is meant to improve compatibility between Linux distributions. Click here to read a discussion of the issues around Linux...
[March 22, 2005, 15:10]
Linux Gets Standards For Devices
News The Linux Standard Base has been working for years to standardize Linux for servers, and now the embedded computing realm is following. An industry consortium including Red Hat, MontaVista Software and IBM is trying to make it easier for companies...
[February 20, 2003, 11:52]
Microsoft Debases Linux Standards
Talkback I agree with your comments that a true IT professional has to have a wide base of knowledge on multiple platforms. However the idea that linux would be on every comuter is flawed. User land is different world from that of the administrator.
[February 3, 2005, 8:24]
Comdex Spring: Linux - OS In Search Of Standards
News Jeff Carr, the founder of Linux PPC, called the Linux standards base -- a move to provide common standards for Linux distributions -- "a crucial and critical movement. But Young downplayed concerns that the company would somehow thwart Linux...
[April 21, 1999, 7:32]
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]
China Signs Up For Linux Standards
News The Free Standards Group, a non-profit group promoting Linux standards, said that a Chinese government agency has opened a lab that will use the Free Standards Group's Linux Standards Base certification process.
[January 17, 2006, 15:25]
CA Throws Its Weight Behind Linux Standard
News The newly revamped Linux Standards Base has got three new supporters this week The additional membership comes as the FSG this week released the latest version of its flagship Linux Standard Base (LSB) specification.
[September 23, 2005, 8:50]
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]
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]
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 Vendors Move To Standard Platform
News The efforts of SuSE, Caldera and Turbolinux parallel the work of these companies -- along with Red Hat and others -- on the Linux Standards Base (LSB), a project by the Free Standards Group to standardise some basic Linux components and make the...
[May 30, 2002, 9:43]
IBM: Open Standards Hold Key To Dynamic E-business
News The answer is to base all the parts and layers on open standards. The company has embraced Linux and open source because it believes these are critical foundations for the IT base of the future, he said.
[August 16, 2001, 10:36]
Linux: The Forking Fight-back
News The Linux Standard Base (LSB), initiated in 1998, is designed not only to prevent fragmentation but to allow application makers to release a single software version certified to run on any LSB-compliant Linux distribution.
[February 4, 2005, 16:10]
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]
Kernel Maintainer Backs UnitedLinux
News The firm urged operating system makers and application vendors to instead certify their products for the Linux Standards Base (LSB), a long-standing programme of improving different Linux distributions' compatibiity with one another.
[July 5, 2002, 13:28]
Penguins Pick Up Certification
News Last week three versions of Linux -- Red Hat 7.3, SuSE 8.0 Professional and Mandrake ProSuite 8.2 -- became the first products certified to comply with the guidelines of the Linux Standard Base (LSB).
[August 19, 2002, 8:00]
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]
Precisely The Right Solution
White Papers The challenge for Precision Response Corporation was to accommodate rapidly growing customer base by improving performance and scalability of servers and storage, reduce IT acquisition and maintenance costs by migrating from proprietary hardware...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Sendmail Case Study: Planet Tunisie
White Papers The results were seamless migration from open source, additional migration of user base directory into LDAP directory, 28000 accounts, 29 GB message data, 4.5 hours run time, implementation and migration 13 days, cost effective solution, high...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
