The new Linux standard lets the user re-ignited hope, is there a cheering moment?
This is a message that is enough to excite all people who are going to use the Linux operating system. On September 14, Beijing time, Free Standards Group officially announced a Linux Global Standard - "Linux Standard Foundation 2.0" (LSB 2.0), and received active support from different levels of Linux camps. This standard of this standard is to provide an important reference standard for programmers and companies engaged in open source technology to facilitate open source software manufacturers to develop more conveniently for different versions of Linux.
The standard problem has already become Linux's fatal weaknesses. Many market research reports pointed out that Linux's commercial rate is gradually improved, but more and more users have also encountered an unpleasant experience: transplanting software between different Linux platforms, they It is usually necessary to modify the software. This is especially allowing users who have just transferred from Windows, because it is almost impossible to happen on Windows - only one company is developing this system. Its popularity makes most people believe in compatibility.
Linux is greatly made by "guerrilla fighting", but it also spreads himself into a "guerrilla". Personal upgrade has become the most important feature since 1991 since 1991, which later involved in Linux development is also good at adding a variety of different functions in Linux to make products and services more attractive. Red Hat and Novell are typical representatives, Red Hat is larger in the Americas, and Europeans are more welcome to Novell's susel, and before, Japan, Han San Country began to join hands to support non-mainstream Linux version of Asian manufacturers.
In this case, people began to worry that future Linux will further differentiate into multiple difficulty versions, weaken their market competitiveness, and a wide range of Unix has become a precedent who leads to the ring. This is related to the future fate of Linux: Let the application are completely compatible with different Linux versions to take off "unstable" hats, better with Microsoft.
Participating in the development of standards may create a leadership in the industry, and the standard emergence will prompt the manufacturer to quickly follow up. Industry analysts: "The launch of new standards will greatly reduce development costs, because future manufacturers only need to complete testing under Standard Linux." AMD, Dell, HP, IBM, Intel and other famous manufacturers have throwing this standard Olive branch. The Free Standards organization said that many open source software vendors have also accepted "Linux standard foundation 2.0". In fact, the recognition and support of a large number of independent software and hardware suppliers is more important for the development of standards. This undoubtedly increases Linux's winning. "Commercial Week" wrote, "Even if the large number of application developers accept this standard, we still can't make sure that Linux seizes Microsoft's position; but if there is no such standard, Linux can only go here."
However, have you arrived at the time? The problem is not only "step-by-step" is so simple. The "Linux Standard Basics" project has begun in May 1998, initially sponsored by some volunteers, and some of the big Linux developers and hardware giants such as HP, IBM also participated in, and formed freedom in May 2000. Standards organizations are responsible for the entire program. The release of this new version of the standard has attracted the siring of the "first standard" of the media. This seems to have some irony. The organization's person in charge was published in 2002, when the LSB1.1 version was claimed to "all Linux issued suite will follow this standard", but there is still no results in the past few years ago, no one is consistent for the manufacturer. Play "Bill".
Over the years, Linux flew in adversity, is due to the free development of software elite molecules, and now manufacturers with commercial operations and financial strength make standardizations have a logo of technical mature, which is also a result of compromise between leaderships. Some analysts believe that "the main reason for" previously no unified standards is that the previous standard does not support C language, and most programmers use this language to write business applications. The new standard version has made some revisions, so it is expected to be widely accepted No matter what, the new standard allows Linux users to ignite hopes. But for Linux camps, not only have the same coat, but also have the same content, which is still a goal that needs long-term efforts to achieve.
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