Stories about: LSB

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Emphasizing that more must be done to expand the volume of Linux applications, Novell President/CEO Ron Hovsepian proposed Wednesday that a standardized application certification process be developed among different players in the Linux market.

In January, two open-source advocacy groups -- the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) and the Free Standards Group (FSG) -- merged and formed the Linux Foundation. Last month, the new nonprofit organization named its board of directors, which includes representatives from Linux vendors and users, as well as Linux kernel developers and other open-source community members. Christine Martino, vice president of Hewlett-Packard's Open Source and Linux Organization, is one of the board members. Martino spoke with Todd R. Weiss on Monday about the newly created foundation and what it plans to do to try continue to move the use of Linux forward.

After several months of delays, Debian developers have released Debian 4.0, code-named "etch".

The Linux Foundation updated its Linux Standard Base (LSB) server specification Monday to include new automated testing toolkits to make it easier to develop applications for different distributions of the open-source operating system.

Linux vendor Xandros Tuesday unveiled its latest Xandros Desktop Professional Version 4 of its enterprise Linux operating system, which debuts two days before Microsoft launches the enterprise version of Windows Vista.

The Free Standards Group (FSG), the organization behind the Linux Standard Base, this week launched what it hopes will become an open source answer to the Microsoft Developer Network, giving programmers a single resource for building and testing LSB-compliant applications.

The volunteer-based Debian GNU/Linux is experimenting with a new project aimed at securing funding to pay key release managers in an effort to ensure the forthcoming Debian 4.0, codenamed etch, is released on time.

More than a dozen technology companies, including IBM, Red Hat and Novell are planning to support a new integrated server and desktop Linux standard unveiled at next week's Linux Desktop Summit by the Free Standards Group (FSG).

The Free Standards Group, a non-profit group that promotes standards for open-source software, last week opened a lab in Beijing to certify that Linux distributions and applications developed in China meet the Linux Standard Base (LSB) standards, the group said in a statement.

Novell has released Service Pack 3 for SuSE Enterprise Linux Server 9, which includes all security patches and bug fixes since SP2 -- of which there have been dozens -- as well as consolidating driver updates for both storage and network subsystems.