From:	 Scott McNeil <mcneil@valinux.com>
To:	 "Elizabeth O. Coolbaugh" <cool@eklektix.com>,
	 Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Subject: LSB 0.9
Date:	 Tue, 08 May 2001 08:47:37 -0700

The Linux Standard Base is in the final stages of the LSB written
specification for Linux. The workgroup has published the LSB v0.9
written specification, and is undergoing a 30 day Request For Comments
from the public until Wednesday June 6th, 2001.  Afterwards, this
draft will be submitted to the Free Standards Group for adoption.

http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/lsbreview.html

The LSB is built on pieces of existing standards that are widely used
by the industry and supported by the development community. These
include:

  ELF & TIS 1.2
  FHS 2.2
  ISO C90 & C99
  LFS 1.5
  POSIX.1
  POSIX.2
  SUS (CURSES, XBD, XCU, XNS, XSH, XSH95)
  X base interface standards

Work is primarily being done by the development community and the
major Linux distributions including Caldera/SCO, Debian, Mandrake,
Red Hat, SuSE, and Turbolinux. Further contributions have come from
IBM, Intel, Linuxcare, Metro Link, VA Linux and others.

The goal of the LSB is to develop and promote a set of standards that
will increase compatibility among Linux distributions and enable
software applications to run on any compliant Linux system. In
addition, the LSB will help coordinate efforts to recruit software
vendors to port and write products for Linux.

http://www.linuxbase.org/

The LSB is but one of several open source standards efforts run by the
Free Standards Group, a nonprofit organization founded by community
developers to accelerate the use and acceptance of open source
technologies through the application, development and promotion of
standards. 

http://www.freestandards.org/

Scott
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Scott McNeil
Free Standards Group
www.freestandards.org