Ian Murdock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 21:17 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> On Dec 09, Ian Murdock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > How does Debian benefit from LCC? It's a route to the ISV and IHV >> > certifications that Debian has always lacked, and it is the lack of >> >> And which I doubt we will get with LCC, since the kernel is the most >> important piece which needs to be certificated. > > The common core will include a common kernel. See the FAQ at > http://componentizedlinux.org/lsb/: "Importantly, the LCC platform > will include a common kernel, eliminating one of the largest sources > of incompatibilities between Linux distributions as > each vendor incorporates its own potentially incompatible patch sets."
And how will you get the other members to support architectures they do not support? A common kernel sounds good but we haven't even managed to common-ify the kernel inside of debian. And that is without mentioning the non-free ness and license issues coming up after sarge. The firmware blobs and the like. Don't get me wrong, I think a common kernel would be great. I just don't think Debians standards will go well with the commercial distributions. MfG Goswin