 |
 |
 |
 |
|
||||||||||||||
| Your account |  |
Today's news index | |
Weather | |
Traffic | |
Movies | |
Restaurants | |
Today's events | ||
|
||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
Tuesday, September 14, 2004 - Page updated at 12:00 A.M.
Linux companies agree to standardized version By The Associated Press
The agreement organized by the nonprofit Free Standards Group is meant to prevent Linux from splitting into several conflicting distributions. That happened years ago with the Unix operating system, with several companies offering different, incompatible variations. "Without this, we are no better than the proprietary Unix systems of old," said Jon Hall, executive director of Linux International, another nonprofit Linux organization. The so-called Linux Standard Base 2.0 is expected to be officially announced today by the San Francisco-based Free Standards Group. The standard is supported by most major Linux vendors, including Red Hat, Novell, China's Red Flag and Turbolinux. Pledges of support also came from chip-makers Advanced Micro Devices and Intel as well as Hewlett-Packard, Dell and IBM. Microsoft, which sells the world's dominant Windows operating system, has run ads in Europe that suggest Linux users will face confusion and headaches should Linux split into incompatible versions. The ads show the Linux penguin mascot with frog feet and an elephant's trunk.
Copyright © 2004 The Seattle Times Company
|
|
|
  |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
seattletimes.com home
Home delivery
| Contact us
| Search archive
| Site map
| Low-graphic
NWclassifieds
| NWsource
| Advertising info
| The Seattle Times Company
Back to top