Re: LSB and Debian, Commercial perspective
Well, I think you'd be in the minority of you don't care if vendors
officially support Debian. From a commercial perspective, what happens if
your tech support department calls up the vendor asking for some
assistance, and as soon as you tell them you're running Debian, they go
all quiet?
And think of the bigger picture. How do you expect a university, a largish
business with hundreds of employees, etc. to select Debian over Redhat (or
one of the so-called "compliant" distros)? Remember most purchases have to
run by non-tech people, so it doesn't matter how good Debian is "behind
the scenes"... if they ask the critical question "is it supported by our
vendors", which do you think they'll choose, Debian or Redhat?
And if it is true that Debian can already pass the LSB certification, and
since the LSB certification is getting good publicity, why isn't Debian
submitting the appropriate forms and such? Even if Debian is technically
superior, there are plenty of cases of the product with better PR winning
in the end. Is there anyone handling Debian PR of this sort?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Borges (lex)" <alex@co.com.mx>
To: "debian isp" <debian-isp@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 4:17 PM
Subject: Re: LSB and Debian, Commercial perspective
El mié, 09-10-2002 a las 21:03, Todd Charron escribió:
> If I recall correctly part of the LSB requires using the rpm package
> format... if that's a requirement preventing debian from being certified
> i'm not too sure i'm interested in the LSB...
apt-get install rpm ....
I dont know what all this fuss is about... probably noone has gotten
together to submit debian to the necesary process for certification....
same thing happens with linux and posix, didnt stop it at all
though..... more, the oposite, unixes are trying to see if they are
linux compliant....so lets wait and see how it goes shall we?
If u install the LSB packages, youll see debian can run all the tests
the lsb provides. I dont care if vendors wont support it, i support
it....more business for me.
>
> Todd
>
>
> On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 21:21, Jason Lim wrote:
> > Dear Joey,
> >
> > ----------------------------
> > This package provides an implementation of version 1.1.0 of the Linux
> > Standard Base for Debian on the Intel x86 architecture with the Linux
> > kernel. Future revisions may support the LSB on additional
architectures
> > and kernels.
> >
> > The intent of this package is to provide a best current practice way
of
> > installing and running LSB packages on Debian GNU/Linux. Its presence
does
> > not imply that we believe that Debian fully complies with the Linux
> > Standard Base, and should not be construed as a statement that Debian
is
> > LSB-compliant.
> > ----------------------------
> >
> > That does not address what I was talking about. _EVEN IF_ Debian had a
> > hack or such which allowed it to appear compatible/compliant, it isn't
> > certified, is it? And back to my original topic... if it isn't
officially
> > compliant, vendors won't support it.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Joey Hess" <joeyh@debian.org>
> > To: <debian-isp@lists.debian.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 6:48 AM
> > Subject: Re: LSB and Debian, Commercial perspective
> >
> > Jason Lim wrote:
> > > What are your thoughts on this?
> >
> > I think you should perhaps apt-get install lsb and read the
> > README.Debian.
> >
> > --
> > see shy jo
> >
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