On 07-Feb-99 alexander volovics wrote:
>
> Ted Harding, Chris Martin, Michael Johnson, Samy Elashmawy, zentara
> have all brought forward relevant and interesting statements and points
> of view in this thread.
>
> However I think the single most important issue confronting the Linux
> world is and remains: standardisation of a base Linux system.
This was my original point, and Alex V has added many strong arguments
for it. Very well said, Alex.
I do wonder if the many participants in LSB can ever agree unless by
adopting as "standard" the setup already used by one of them.
The alternative, as Alex says and as has been forcefully said in other
places, is "UNIX Wars" all over again. This is what marginalised UNIX for
many major software ISVs; the ones that stayed in were mainly those that
depended on platforms with UNIX power for their software to run at all.
The principal difference that Linux has from "traditional" UNIX
installations is that you get the power at minimal cost for the software,
you can use rather low-grade cheap hardware, there are a lot of us about,
and of course there is the Open Source community backing you up (though
the last factor tends to come into play only after you have taken the
plunge).
I dare say it *will* settle down, though without an LSB-type standard it
could take a lot longer.
Ted.
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