The advent of new desktop Linux standards promotes the popularization of Linux

Article title: the advent of new desktop Linux standards promotes the popularization of Linux. Linux is a technology channel of the IT lab in China. Including desktop applications, Linux system management, kernel research, more than 10 high-tech companies, including IBM, Red Hat, and Novell, have expressed support for FSG) server and desktop Linux standards will be announced at the next week's "desktop Linux Summit.

FSG is a non-profit organization that has been engaged in the development of various open standards including Linux Standard Base Server specifications for many years. In March last October, it announced the development of a Desktop Standard program named "Linux Standard Base Desktop Project.

These two standards are now integrated into Linux Standard Base 3.1. FSG said in a statement released on Wednesday that it would enable application software developers to more easily face a complete Linux and remove a major obstacle to the popularization of desktop Linux.

According to FSG, multiple Linux providers, including Red Hat, Novell, Ubuntu Linux, and Linspire, will allow their products to pass the new LSB standard certification. IBM, Intel, HP, and Dell will also support this standard.

Although it has become a successful server operating system, it has not been widely used in desktop systems, in part because software developers are reluctant to develop the Linux version of their desktop software. The existence of Gnome and KDE desktop environments also affects the popularity of desktop Linux, which makes it impossible for software developers to develop software that can run on all versions of Linux. The problem with Linux standards is that there are too many standards. developers want to write software according to one standard and understand that their software can run on all desktops, says Gregori, president of software vendor Raizlabs.

Bruce, vice president of Sourcelabs's professional services, said FSG hopes that its integrated LSB standards can achieve this goal, but it is very difficult to create a standard that is compatible with both KDE and Gnome.