From: Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@transmeta.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 11:11:16 -0800 (PST)
To: lwn@lwn.net
Subject: Linux Development Platform Specification 1.1-beta

Linux Development Platform Specification 1.1-beta

The Free Standards Group is pleased to announce the 1.1-beta release
of the Linux Development Platform Specification (LDPS). After a two
week public review of LDPS 1.1-beta, we will release LDPS 1.1. The
LDPS is located at:

  http://www.freestandards.org/ldps/

The LDPS is designed so that programs developed on a conforming
platform are expected to be portable to all generally available Linux
distributions. We recommend that all independent software developers
create binary versions of their applications using distributions
conforming to the LDPS.

As one of the efforts of the Free Standards Group, the Linux Standard
Base will soon define a base Linux platform that will provide the
means to make something like the LDPS unnecessary. Until then, the
LDPS provides a set of guidelines to help developers avoid or cope
with existing portability problems that will continue to exist while
the Linux Standard Base is being completed, refined, and widely
adopted.

Contributors to the LDPS include:

  * Wichert Akkerman
  * Stuart Anderson
  * H. Peter Anvin
  * Alan Cox
  * Thomas Dickey
  * Ulrich Drepper
  * Ralf Flaxa
  * Dirk Hohndel
  * Jim Kingdon
  * George Kraft IV
  * Thorsten Kukuk
  * Daniel Quinlan
  * Dale Scheetz
  * Linus Torvalds
  * Theodore Ts'o