Adobe Joins Intel, IBM, HP Aboard Linux Bandwagon

Foxnews ^ | Wednesday, October 19, 2005 | Steven Vaughan-Nichols eWeeks

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The Free Standards Group and its Linux Standard Base work group Tuesday announced the formation of the Linux Standard Base Desktop Project (

), with the support of Adobe Systems Inc., Intel Corp., IBM, Hewlett-Packard Co., Linspire Inc., Mandriva SA, Novell Inc., RealNetworks Inc., Red Hat Inc., Trolltech, Xandros Inc. and others.

The LSB (Linux Standard Base) Desktop Project's goal is to standardize common libraries and application behavior so as to make it easier for independent software vendors (ISVs) to write Linux () desktop programs.

The long-term goal is to help the Linux desktop achieve wide-spread adoption.

In the past, Linux ISVs, while not anywhere near as constrained as they have been in writing applications for Unix (), have still faced complex and costly development and support issues. This, in turn, according to Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Free Standards Group ( ), has lead to many ISVs choosing not to develop for Linux.

In addition to long-time Linux supporter ISVs such as Trolltech (

) and hardware vendors like HP and IBM, the LSB Desktop Project is also being supported by companies that have not been well known for Linux support, such as Adobe, Intel and RealNetworks.

All these businesses are donating time and resources towards the goal of standardizing common libraries and application behavior so as to make it easier for developers to target the Linux desktop.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[ShadowAce]

Actually, I think this is more of an OSS ping.

[N3WBI3]

OSS PING

If you are interested in the OSS ping list please mail me

Thanks to Ernest_at_the_Beach for finding this..

[phatoldphart]

They still don't get it!

"As the standards are provided and then adopted, the Linux desktop will snowball. Microsoft can compete with a Sun, a Red Hat or a Novell, but they won't be able to compete with an ecosystem of Linux desktops," Zemlin said.

ms has little competition now and, until there is ONE standard, there's not a chance of competing.

What a joke!

[Knitebane]

ms has little competition now and, until there is ONE standard, there's not a chance of competing.

Yeah!

Just like Microsoft has ONE standard!

Like the single standard for Win32! And the single standard for 95/98/NT/2K/XP/2K3!

And all nine versions of Vista!