RE: [SuSE Linux] Watch out for this??
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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All a "Standard Distribution" would be is an agreement amoungst gentleman to follow a set of guide lines when making a distribution. There is nothing compulsive. Anybody would be free to make a distribution that doesn't follow the "standard". But if the majority of distributions agree to follow a set of guidelines, the big software giants (and the little guys) can know what to expect from these distributions and write code accordingly without haveing to write a seperate package for each distribution. The "standard distribution" would be more of an "accepted practice by the big names in Linux" On 19-Aug-98 Adams, Simon wrote:
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.
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