On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 00:44, Vinayak Hegde wrote:

I can give a talk on "Linux Standards Base (LSB 2.0)" if enough people are interested. Let me know atleast 2 - 3 days in advance so that I can prepare for the talks.

I was thinking of posting an idea on universalisation of linux and today your mail mentions lsb. You guys at lsb are angels sent to help the hardware engineers in distress. I went through the lsb site. Most of the work going on is high level programming which goes above my head, but as a learner cum installer cum user who has been facing problems, I have a suggestion to make linux universal in installation, driver setup and device utilisation. This idea may be very silly but please hear it out.

If we can have a common linux system in which everything that is configured, installed and setup in linux is done only through the use of an internationally accepted list of variables, shell and environment. So the creator of the linux os has full freedom to place his/her files in any location, call it any name, and use whatever language to create the files and add whatever lines of code in the scripts and kernel. However these files and settings should be available to third party programmers through variables that will call these files whenever required. The format of entering values can also be through variables or it may be plain text as it is right now. If plain text, the parameter names that set values for the kernel's use should also be internationally accepted. This would help in handling different kernel versions in future. Future kerenels should also adhere to this international format so that third party software developers, driver writers and setup utility creators can create common cross platform softwares that work totally on the use of variables.

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"Little knowledge is dangerous"

Regards,

Rony.