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Monday, April 9th, 2007

Linux Standards Base (LSB) Gets an Update and Testing Tools

Jim Zemlin seems to be moving things along quite well over at the new Linux Foundation. I like seeing progress and this announcement is clearly an indicator. The new Testkit includes both a Distribution Testkit and an Application Testkit for LSB compliance for LSB 3.0, 3.1, and 3.1U1 compliance. You can download the LSB SDK and the Distribution and Application testkits here.

There are testkit versions available for x86, x64, ppc, Itanium, and S/390 (IBM System z).

InfoWorld article covering the news: http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/04/09/HNlinuxstandardbase_1.html

“All the moving parts are coming together to give the Linux ecosystem its first testing framework that will coordinate development of upstream code to standards and downstream implementations,” Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, said in a prepared statement. For any standard to be really effective, it requires a very strong and easy-to-use testing infrastructure, he added.