Re: RE: Question About Becoming LSB Certified..?!

[Michael Lauzon]

Costs money that a lot of groups can't afford
as they have no money and no donations
either...so why should there be a LSB
compliance standard when it is NOT freely
available; HTML is a standard for the Web and
it is FREELY available -- you don't see the W3C
charging money do you?!?!


Michael Lauzon
Founder & Lead Project Manager
InceptionOS Project
http://www.sf.net/projects/maxlinux/
[EMAIL PROTECTED]








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From: "Wichmann, Mats D"
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Sent: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 23:38:48 -0700
To: Glenn McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], lsb-
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Subject: RE: Question About Becoming LSB
Certified..?!



> If standards compliance isnt easily and
freely accessable, do
> you think the LSB can (or should) become a
standard ?

Compliance *is* easily and freely accessible -
today.
We're about to update the Testing FAQ with the
patches
needed to make a glibc 2.2.5 + kernel
2.4.18 "sample
implementation" (built from upstream tarballs +
very
minimal patches) pass all the tests. All
the "sample
implementation" bits are available in the LSB
CVS
tree (see www.linuxbase.org and follow the
links to the
CVS tree). The sample is built following the
model of
the Linux From Scratch project. The current FAQ
already
has most of what's needed to achieve this goal.
Current
CVS glibc plus kernel 2.4.19 already
incorporates nearly
all of the small set of patches needed relative
to
glibc 2.2.4 + kernel 2.4.18. We continue to try
to push
the required patches back to the upstream
maintainers.

The certification logo is just a step further,
designed
to give confidence to those folks that need the
extra
reassurance of an independent impartial audit
of the
compliance claims. That extra step consts some
money
to achieve.


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Michael Lauzon
Founder & Lead Project Manager
InceptionOS Project
http://www.sf.net/projects/max
linux/
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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