[Novalug] Ubuntu LTS for web/email server

[Bryan J. Smith]

Obviously you disagree about IHV/ISV and certified partner agreements,
for the same reasons as the kernel comments prior.  I don't think I need to
revisit those, they are self-evident.  ;)

The Application Binary Interface (ABI) is a reality for commercial software
and their certification.  The fixed GCC, GLibC, etc..., the kernel ABI/ABI
(kAPI/kABI), storage support and related assumptions a vendor has to
make.

At the very least, instead of being vendor-centric, ISVs _could_ require
LSB 3.3, 4.0, etc...  But you can_not_ avoid certain ABI aspects.  Supporting
"just Linux" doesn't work when things are fixed to binary and select package
support.  LSB is trying to solve this as a vendor-agnostic approach.

Just reality.  If you run IHV/ISV solutions, you decide what you want to stake
your career on.  I'm going with what the IHV/ISV supports.  ;)


----- Original Message ----

From: James Ewing Cottrell 3rd <JECottrell3 at comcast.net>

I disagree about Certifications tho ... they can be lengthy and actually hinder progress. What I'd rather see is the ISV saying "we develop on $OS" or "we have many customers running $VER and it installed/ran cleanly" than "we are certified for $REL".

ISV's should keep up with the newest releases and so should customers.