I'm pretty new to linux and am still confused to a certain extent on the issues behind GPL etc. But my understanding of Linux is that Linux is the kernel only and the rest distributions who are free to put anything on top. There fore how can you have a standard distribution. Or are we only talking about core sets of utilities. Simon
Sure. There is every argument for it. "Purists" claim that Debian is the I agree we have a need for a standard, what I don't like is the idea that only
On 19-Aug-98 Ted Harding wrote: people who pay for the privalage get to decide what that standard is...
I believe the Linux Standard Base System Project is the protegee of one distribution, not a Linux-wide project. In fact, the only 100 per cent It was actually the brain child of Bruce Perens, Erik Wathenstein and joined by many other "big names" in the Linux worlds (such as Allan Cox, SuSE and Caldera). The only notable absentees were Red Hat and Debian.
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