Well, I think you'd be in the minority of you don't care if vendors officially support Debian. From a commercial perspective, what happens if your tech support department calls up the vendor asking for some assistance, and as soon as you tell them you're running Debian, they go all quiet?
And think of the bigger picture. How do you expect a university, a largish business with hundreds of employees, etc. to select Debian over Redhat (or one of the so-called "compliant" distros)? Remember most purchases have to run by non-tech people, so it doesn't matter how good Debian is "behind the scenes"... if they ask the critical question "is it supported by our vendors", which do you think they'll choose, Debian or Redhat? And if it is true that Debian can already pass the LSB certification, and since the LSB certification is getting good publicity, why isn't Debian submitting the appropriate forms and such? Even if Debian is technically superior, there are plenty of cases of the product with better PR winning in the end. Is there anyone handling Debian PR of this sort? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Borges (lex)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian isp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 4:17 PM Subject: Re: LSB and Debian, Commercial perspective El mié, 09-10-2002 a las 21:03, Todd Charron escribió: > If I recall correctly part of the LSB requires using the rpm package > format... if that's a requirement preventing debian from being certified > i'm not too sure i'm interested in the LSB... apt-get install rpm .... I dont know what all this fuss is about... probably noone has gotten together to submit debian to the necesary process for certification.... same thing happens with linux and posix, didnt stop it at all though..... more, the oposite, unixes are trying to see if they are linux compliant....so lets wait and see how it goes shall we? If u install the LSB packages, youll see debian can run all the tests the lsb provides. I dont care if vendors wont support it, i support it....more business for me. > > Todd > > > On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 21:21, Jason Lim wrote: > > Dear Joey, > > > > ---------------------------- > > This package provides an implementation of version 1.1.0 of the Linux > > Standard Base for Debian on the Intel x86 architecture with the Linux > > kernel. Future revisions may support the LSB on additional architectures > > and kernels. > > > > The intent of this package is to provide a best current practice way of > > installing and running LSB packages on Debian GNU/Linux. Its presence does > > not imply that we believe that Debian fully complies with the Linux > > Standard Base, and should not be construed as a statement that Debian is > > LSB-compliant. > > ---------------------------- > > > > That does not address what I was talking about. _EVEN IF_ Debian had a > > hack or such which allowed it to appear compatible/compliant, it isn't > > certified, is it? And back to my original topic... if it isn't officially > > compliant, vendors won't support it. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Joey Hess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 6:48 AM > > Subject: Re: LSB and Debian, Commercial perspective > > > > Jason Lim wrote: > > > What are your thoughts on this? > > > > I think you should perhaps apt-get install lsb and read the > > README.Debian. > > > > -- > > see shy jo > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Alex (Lex) Borges Software Engineer Step One Group www.sogrp.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
