* wouter@debian.org (wouter@debian.org) wrote: > On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > "Standard" != "RedHat". There's something called the "Linux Standards > Base" that's providing a standard for third-party vendors which will, when > ready, exclude the problems you're referring to. But saying "you need to > be RedHat binary compatible" is evil. You could just as well require us to > be Windows binary compatible; after all, Most boxen in the world run > Windows, you know. > Even as an RHCE, I agree with you. It's up to individual venders to actively seek and remain LSB compatable. Not for specific releases of Linux to become compatable with another. Leave that game to Microsoft. I would dearly hate to see Linux distributions fall into that pitfall. -- David D.W. Downey - RHCE (Red Hat Certified Engineer) Core Member: Linux Professional Institute (www.lpi.org) Creator/Maintainer: KiXO Linux Website: www.kixolinux.com GPG Key fingerprint = A054 A0FB 9F44 0579 06D3 4D48 4DCE ECF4 4E9A 5CCD
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