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FHS 3.0 Draft 1

By licquia - August 16, 2011 - 8:35am

Just in time for LinuxCon, we are pleased to announce the first draft of FHS 3.0!

 

LSB 4.0 Update 3

By licquia - June 15, 2011 - 6:07am

The LSB Workgroup has released update 3 to the Distribution Tests and Application Battery for LSB 4.0.

LSB SDK 4.1.1

By licquia - May 12, 2011 - 10:45am

The LSB Workgroup has released version 4.1.1 of the LSB Software Development Kit(SDK).

FHS

By licquia - April 27, 2011 - 6:43am

The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) is a reference describing the conventions used for the layout of a UNIX system. It has been made popular by its use in Linux distributions, but it is used by other UNIX variants as well. The Linux Standard Base (LSB) refers to it as a standard.

Call for Participation

The LSB workgroup is preparing FHS 3.0, which will be the first FHS release since 2004. As part of that release, we are soliciting contributions from all interested parties.

Contributing to the LSB

By licquia - March 7, 2011 - 3:13pm

The LSB workgroup is an open project, which welcomes contributions from all interested parties.

About the LSB

By licquia - March 7, 2011 - 2:48pm

When targeting Linux as a platform, application developers want to have some assurance that the code they write on one Linux distribution will run on other Linux distributions without having to go through extra effort. This matches their experiences on other popular platforms, such as Windows or Mac OS X.

LSB 4.1

By licquia - March 3, 2011 - 12:13pm

The LSB workgroup is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the Linux Standard Base (LSB) version 4.1.

LSB 4.1 Release Notes

By licquia - March 3, 2011 - 9:30am


LSB 4.1 Release Notes


Introduction

The LSB project team is proud to announce LSB Version 4.1. The specification is available for download at the Specification page. The tools, tests and development environment are available for download at the Download page.

LSB Documentation Resources

By licquia - February 24, 2011 - 3:15pm

The LSB workgroup provides the following documentation resources:

LSB 4.1 RC1

By licquia - January 24, 2011 - 7:41am

The LSB project is pleased to announce the availability of the first release candidate of LSB 4.1.

Links to the specification, as well as links to download the tests and SDK, are available at the following URL:

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/LSB_4.1_Beta

As of this writing, there are two known issues with the release candidate:

  • The decision to promote xdg-utils out of trial use was made after the latest draft of the specification; therefore, the current RC spec continues to list it as trial use.

LSB 4.0 Update 2

By licquia - September 3, 2010 - 12:58pm

The LSB Workgroup has released Update 2 to the Distribution Test Kit for LSB 4.0.

The distribution tests for LSB 4.0 are distributed in LSB-compliant RPM package form from the following location:

http://ftp.linuxfoundation.org/pub/lsb/test_suites/released-4.0.0

Additionally, tarball bundles with an easy-to-use install script are available from here:

http://ftp.linuxfoundation.org/pub/lsb/bundles/released-4.0.0/dist-testkit

This update covers a number of bug fixes included since the last update of the distribution tests. Highlights include:

Linux Standard Base Trademark Guidelines

By amcpherson - June 25, 2010 - 1:58pm

Please consult the Linux Foundation's trademark usage guidelines for over-all guideance on all Linux Foundation marks. Please do not refer to a product or service as being LF- or LSB-certified or use any of LF’s certification marks, unless your company has successfully undergone LF’s compliance testing suites and LF has explicitly authorized your use of these terms and the LF certification marks, and you have executed LF’s Trademark License.

Linux Standard Base (LSB)

By Linux_Foundation - April 29, 2010 - 9:46am

The Linux Standard Base was created to lower the overall costs of supporting the Linux platform. By reducing the differences between individual Linux distributions, the LSB greatly reduces the costs involved with porting applications to different distributions, as well as lowers the cost and effort involved in after-market support of those applications.

Download

By licquia - April 20, 2010 - 10:55am

LSB SDK 4.0.3

By licquia - April 8, 2010 - 10:28am

The LSB Workgroup has released version 4.0.3 of the LSB Software Development Kit (SDK).

The SDK is distributed in LSB-compliant RPM packages from the following location:

http://ftp.linuxfoundation.org/pub/lsb/lsbdev/released-all

Additionally, tarball bundles with an easy install script are available from here:

http://ftp.linuxfoundation.org/pub/lsb/bundles/released-4.0.0/sdk/

Linux Distribution Checker and App Checker betas

By licquia - March 25, 2010 - 1:26pm

The LSB Workgroup has now released beta-test versions of the Linux Application Checker and the new Linux Distribution Checker. These are based on the ISPRAS releases of the Application Checker (4.0.8.0) and the Distribution Checker (4.0.1.9).

LSB SDK 4.0.3 RC1

By licquia - March 22, 2010 - 4:39pm

The first release candidate for version 4.0.3 of the LSB SDK is now available. It is not yet recommended for production work, but barring any serious bugs found in testing, will become the recommended production version, so everyone is encouraged to download and test the SDK on non-production code.

The easiest way to get the RC is to download the tarball bundle from here:

http://ftp.linuxfoundation.org/pub/lsb/bundles/beta/sdk/

Best Effort Linker issues

By oiaohm1 - April 17, 2009 - 8:52pm

Current Best Effort Linker uses a set of fixed paths for the dynamic loader.

Should we concider expanding this to include envormental vars like LSB_LD_SO for path to lsb ld so file and LSB_PLATFORM_LD_SO for the distributions ld.so.

I know making lsb relocatable does not seam a requirement.   With items like android using the / may not be a option.   So the FHS offset to another directory maybe required.  Should Best Effort be made support this.