From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gith) > Is the Debian distribution going to push for POSIX conformity?
Yes, because it just got easy and cheap. > I may be missing something here, ( I'm still a relative newbie > to Linux ) but what is the importance of it? After viewing the > Linux-FT web pages, the only good thing I can see about a Posix > certification is the right to go around patting yourself on the > back for having one. ( Just the feeling I got from the site. ) Actually, until recently you could only be POSIX compliant by paying a lot of money. You paid for copies of the standard, you paid for validation software, and you paid for a POSIX compliance lab to certify you. So it was a way for the well-funded commercial Linux projects to differentiate themselves from high-quality but underfunded efforts like Debian. Now, they will have to use the still-costly X/Open standards to differentiate themselves. NIST developed a compliance test suite for the U.S. Federal Information Processing Standard. This is a superset of POSIX. They recently decided to make it free, so that more people would implement POSIX. We think that's a great idea, and we got right to work. And now, the POSIX standard can be used for what it was intended for: insuring source-level compatibility across multiple software platforms. Thanks Bruce Perens Debian Project Leader -- Bruce Perens, Pixar Animation Studios *** "Toy Story" video tape in U.S. stores October 30 *** Worldwide box office total for "Toy Story": $353,275,005 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]