Submitted by nitinnagoria on Mon, 11/17/2008 - 14:02.
Hi,
I am trying to evaluate the difference between LSB and POSIX specification. I need some info around that. I am basically looking for answers to two of my questions.
1. Is the LSB specified API set same as that of POSIX API set?
2. Can lsbcc detect and report an error, if I use any of non-POSIX APIs in my application?
Thanks
-Nitin
In another step towards general release, the first beta of Linux Standard Base (LSB) 4.0 was released today. LSB 4.0 will introduce a new application checker, a new shell script checker, and a new multi-version software development kit (SDK) that will enable developers to build applications to earlier LSB specifications without changing SDKs.
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By Cameron Laird and Kathryn Soraiz Welcome! This is Regular Expressions, or, more precisely, its early-September 2008 installment. Regular Expressions is a column we've written around a hundred times already, stretching back to the late '90s. We're excited to bring it now to Linux Developer Network (LDN), which will publish two installments each month.
Submitted by audiofanatic on Fri, 10/10/2008 - 02:08.
The GL/gl.h and GL/glx.h headers are part of the LSB 3.1 specification, however these headers are not provided by any of the SDK rpm's (have only checked the i486 and x86_64 packages though). This would seem to be an omission, and since most linux distributions are not yet certified beyond LSB 3.1, it could be argued that 3.1 is the LSB version application vendors will be currently targetting. What chance is there of having these missing headers added to one of the SDK packages? The lsb-build-desktop package seems the most appropriate. Craig Scott
Submitted by LSB List on Wed, 10/22/2008 - 16:00.
Kay Tate, Jiri Dluhos, Ted Tso, Jesper Thomschultz, Alan Clark, Alexey
Khoroshilov, Brian Proffitt, Russ Herrold, Robert Schweikert, George
Kraft, Dalibor Topic.
LSB 4.0 status. Jeff: olver core tests? Alexey: investigating the
issues. If we see lots of failures, should be OK; there are a number of
test cases that are only slightly different. Usually, we aggregate
those into a single failure when they're related. If new things come
up, they won't be aggregated, so may take some analysis.
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So the bloggers over at ZDNet have once again proclaimed the end of the operating system. Larry Dignan says:
The operating system may be losing its luster. In fact, you could argue that the operating system–Linux, OS X and Windows–will become an application that just happens to boot first. And hardware vendors are on to the OS’s diminishing importance.
He goes on to say:
Submitted Amanda McPherson on Fri, 08/15/2008 - 22:45.
With the advent of Web 2.0 and Software as a Service, cloud computing has come into vogue. Cloud computing has become synonymous with providing services anywhere anytime with the basic requirement being access to the internet. As a new model, cloud computing promises to make any online service available without a large upfront investment in infrastructure. The economics of running a full infrastructure changes dramatically since you only pay for what you use.... [more]
Part one of this article, Cloud Computing and Open Source, presented an overview of several cloud computing solutions available today that are friendly to open source. In this article we'll focus on one of these solutions, Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), and walk through the development of an open source mashup for EC2. Amazon EC2 is a top player in the cloud computing space and gives organizations the ability to leverage world-class compute resources on a pay-as-you-go basis.... [more]
Submitted by bproffitt on Fri, 08/29/2008 - 17:32.
Position: Senior Engineer Ramakrishna Reddy, is currently a Senior Engineer with Red Hat. Prior to that, he was an Independent Consultant, consulting in the Natural Language Processing, Machine Translation, Indic Text processing.
He is a Free Software, Agile, and extreme programming evangelist and is involved with the Ind Linux project (Best Open Source Project, Linux Asia 2005). His interests lie in Open Source Scripting languages, I18N and l10N of software applications. Web Application development, functional Programming, and Databases.
Submitted by Jeff Licquia on Wed, 06/18/2008 - 16:12.
Licquia, Robert Schweikert, Marvin Heffler, Alexey Khoroshilov, Ron Hale-Evans, Kay Tate, Ted Tso. Some glitches found in the 3.2 release; please report any others to the list or IRC. Working on new status table, at the top of ProjectPlan40 page on the wiki. Not done yet, but people can take a look at it and add data they think might be missing. gnu_get_libc_release. Do we need it? Robert: if it's LSB, then you shouldn't. Jeff: some apps may dlopen() extra interfaces. Kay: defensive purposes; guard against changes in glibc behavior. Robert: who uses it?
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