[lsb-discuss] LSB 3.1 market penetration?

[Darren Davis]

Wichmann, Mats D wrote:
> Dan Kegel wrote:
>   
>> ISVs who might like to rely on LSB 3.1 might well ask:
>>   What percent of users are now running a LSB 3.1-compliant
>> distribution? and/or
>>    Are all pre-LSB-3.1 distribution releases now at end of life?
>>
>> https://www.linuxfoundation.org/lsb-cert/productdir.php?by_lsb
>> has some nice info on which distributions are compliant
>> with which LSB.  (It's missing Fedora, though, and it's
>> missing Suse 10.2.)  It would be interesting to add an
>> end-of-life date column to that page.
>>     
>
> well, the table lists "certified" distros, which is not the
> same as compliant distros - some/many others may comply but
> not be certified, Fedora is one where the development/release
> model does not mesh with certification so we've been told
> it will never go though certification.  I use Fedora happily
> for a lot of my LSB work, and it *mostly* conforms, although
> you can normally find a few test cases that don't pass - for
> practical purposes it seems to be fine though. I've submitted 
> a patch for Fedora 9 which brings it up to LSB 3.2 level but
> it's not been acted on (can be found in their bugzilla).
>   

openSUSE falls into this same category.  I know they run the DTK as part 
of the QA and makes sure it passes, but I doubt it will ever get 
official certification.

Darren


>   
>> Is there any better source of data on this question?
>>     
>
> I think it's all informal at this point, beyond the cert
> list you've already cited.
>
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