Mike:
I'm not so worried about how far "down" they certify
as much as how far "up". Certainly, everything downstairs will
be LGPL (so mods cannot be taken private, but it can be combined
with closed-source apps), and so I'm hoping for something as
straightforward as: 2.2.19 kernel, uLibC, busybox 0.5, libsafe,
etc. Really, something terribly close to Oxygen...
Again though, what worries me is a special-interest
high-level app. Like a JVM (or whatever they're called now),
UPnP, SNMP, or something else ghastly, fat and insecure.
Should be interesting, in any case.
-Scott
On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Mike Noyes wrote:
> Scott C. Best, 2001-04-18 19:58 -0700
> >Mike:
> >
> > I agree: a potentially watershed article. Quoting
> >from a juicy bit:
> ><snip>
> > Cool. This will make my echowall porting efforts
> >go that much smoother. ;)
>
> Scott,
> I like the idea, but not who proposed it. Inder Singh's opinions concern
> me. If I understand his definition below SCO and Solaris are Linux too. If
> this standard will certify a proprietary OS because of API compatibility
> I'm against it.
>
> http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT2016752176.html
> ~ Thus, one answer to the question "Is it Linux?" which may be the most
> ~ meaningful is that it is Linux if it can run Linux applications, i.e.
> ~ defining Linux in terms of its APIs/ABIs. This is the aspect that is
> ~ most important to developers of Linux applications as well as to most
> ~ embedded Linux developers. It is key to preventing Linux from
> ~ fragmenting the way that Unix did.
> ~
> ~ From this perspective, products like LynxOS from LynuxWorks, which has
> ~ a high degree of compliance with the Linux APIs, and will support the
> ~ ABIs in a future release, are effectively more true to Linux than some
> ~ of the open source solutions like RTLinux and Zentropix which are
> ~ derived from Linux, but break the Linux APIs to provide real-time
> ~ performance.
>
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