Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Xandros Linux Server First to Receive LSB Certification
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> | Xandros today announced that Xandros Server 2.0 is the first product
> | to be certified by the Linux Foundation through use of the LSB
> | Distribution Testkit (LSB DTK).
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http://www.linuxlookup.com/2007/apr/24/xandros_linux_server_first_to_receive_lsb_certification
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Would it be pedantic to say that if this is the first ever test and
therefore the first ever pass then it can't really be called a standard.
I tried to see what exactly this certificate covers, but haven't come up
with anything that makes sense. The main site tells you about the software
that does the test and the web interface to it. But not what the tests are.
The bits I could see in the smudged screen shots looked a bit like it was
checking lib versions, but that you had to tell it which version you had.
That can't be right, but is the only visible clue.
What tests would certify that a server is a server? Even a client does some
serving of services, so it's possible that a Linux client could pass this
test.
Then what sort of server is a certified server, would a smoothwall 5 fail to
be a server, because doesn't do file/print/email services? Would that aging
but very reliable Suse 9.3 you have plodding away as a database for
Accounts fail because although it is very reliable and you wouldn't swap it
for anything unless you had no choice, it's libs are so so it might not be
a lib.
So has anyone seen what it is that takes a server and makes it a certified
server?
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