Standards: Bridging the Generation Gap Between Linux® and UNIX® Systems

Table of contents

Title Slide

Quote

Agenda

The Free Market

Enabling Standards

Agenda

POSIX® /pahz-icks/

POSIX® /pahz-icks/

POSIX Deliverables

The Success of POSIX

POSIX building blocks

POSIX.1 and Linux

POSIX.1c and Linux

POSIX.2 and Linux

Agenda

POSIX and UNIX Synergy

The Single UNIX Specification Version 2

POSIX and UNIX functionality

Linux Status*

UNIX 98 Portability functions

Linux Status (Cont'd)

Linux Status (Cont'd) *

Linux Status

Linux Utilities

Linux Utilities (Cont'd)

Agenda

The Austin Group

The Austin Group (Cont'd)

About the Austin Group

Objectives

The New Common Specification

New Features

New Features

New Features

New Features

New Features

New Features

Key Changes

Key Changes (Cont'd)

Challenges

Agenda

The Linux Standard Base (LSB)

LSB Deliverables

Summary

Further Information

How You Can Help?

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Author: Andrew Josey

E-mail: ajosey (at) opengroup (dot) org

Homepage: http://www.opengroup.org/austin/