Stories about: LSB

The Linux Standard Base set of standards has reached "critical mass" with the support of Computer Associates, according to the Free Standards Group's (FSG) executive director Jim Zemlin.

"A lot of people have been unhappy with the service they've been getting from a certain very large Linux vendor." That was Bruce Perens, speaking at this year's LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, which took place in San Francisco earlier this month. You can fill in Bruce's blank yourself. But if you think he came to the conference to stump for more choice in Linux distributions, you're mistaken. In a sense, he was calling for fewer choices.

Several Linux vendors have confirmed they are participating in a project to turn Debian into a serious force in the enterprise.

Red Hat and IBM will jointly help software vendors certify their applications for Linux in a partnership announced Thursday.

Four major Linux players are to unite their distributions around a common core based on the Linux Standard Base (LSB) 2.0, in an effort to push Linux standardization to a new level. MandrakeSoft of France, Conectiva of Brazil, TurboLinux of Japan and Progeny Linux Systems of the US say the venture, called the Linux Core Consortium (LCC), has broad industry support from companies such as Red Hat, Novell and Hewlett-Packard.

The biggest challenge for the open source community is that there are too few open source developers, according to Michael Tiemann, vice president of Open Source Affairs at Red Hat.

The Free Standards Group (FSG) on Tuesday will release Version 2.0 of its Linux Standard Base (LSB), a key standard that enables developers to rally around a common programming framework and keeps Linux from fragmenting into competing camps.

One question on everybody’s mind when they are thinking about Linux and how it will fit into the enterprise mould is that of whether the number of known distributions — believed to have reached approximately 130 — is helping or hurting Linux. This week at “CA World” in Las Vegas, a handful of the Linux world’s most influential activists gave their viewpoints on that issue.

Linux vendor Red Hat Tuesday detailed the release of its operating system for workstations, and announced that it has enhanced its Linux Advanced Server operating system to add support for "carrier-grade" Linux applications.

Four Linux vendors collaborating on a common operating system will announce Tuesday the availability of their first commercial release, called UnitedLinux 1.0, according to information from member companies.

The latest Linux operating systems from MandrakeSoft SA and the former Caldera International Inc. have been certified as compliant with the specifications of the Linux Standard Base (LSB), which is helping to create a standardized Linux core to benefit users, software developers and systems administrators.