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China signs up for Linux standards
January 23, 2006, 9:40 pm |
China signs up for Linux standards
Martin LaMonica
CNET News.com
January 17, 2006, 16:25 GMT
Chinese Linux products will be certified by a central lab that has
signed up to the Linux Standards Base
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39247724,00.htm
The Free Standards Group, a non-profit group promoting Linux standards,
said that a Chinese government agency has opened a lab that will use the
Free Standards Group's Linux Standards Base certification process.
The Linux Standards Base (LSB) is a specification designed to allow
software companies to verify that Linux distributions and applications
can run on different versions of Linux. It standardises several software
interfaces and includes test suites and documentation.
Jim Zemlin, the executive director of the Free Standards Group, said
that the Chinese government's endorsement of LSB will help prevent a
fragmentation of Linux which could lead to incompatibilities among
different versions.
Large ISVs, including Linux distributors Red Hat and Novell, have voiced
support for the LSB.
The China Electronics Standardisation Institute (CESI) will establish a
lab and use LSB to certify Chinese Linux software products.
"LSB certification will help ensure that Linux systems in the PRC
conform to the ISO/IEC standard. The LSB lab provides an environment
where Chinese companies can study and master the core technologies in
the global standards system," said Mo Wei, executive director of CESI,
in a statement.
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