Promotion for the comittee and few outdated tips

Well this is based on 2.0 and not the current 3.2 but it doesn't really matter because the procedure to get an applicatino LSB conformant is almost the same. Just that you can use a few more tools and libraries.

There are absolutely no hints on how to turn a non LSB program into a conforming one. No listing of libs that you can use to statically link to. All this is left to you. Instead of giving a application programmer tips, they describe how the comittee voting is done, how you can send a huge cheque (1000US$) to them to get a formal certificate and how Linux distribution vendors can get some help. The only intersting information are the 50 pages about how to use the test suite and the sample implementation. But again it is just the information from the (not very well designed) website.

It's just a dry read and it's just the same information you get from the LSB website.

LSB is a good standard and i hope that it is successfull. With 3.2 it's the first time i was able to create a good desktop application that almost conforms to it. The book is just a good buy if you don't know anything and don't care about 30$ for a better offline reading in you bed or a good restaurant.

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