On 16 Jun 2013, at 17:15, "Sampsa Laine" <sampsa at mac.com> wrote: http://www.sampsa.com/2013/06/16/linux-wannabe-devs-the-few-the-brave-the-s… sampsa <sampsa at mac.com> mobile +961 788 10537 Linux is 95% politics, 3% needless ABI/API changes, 1% new features, 1% championing a twisted version of freedom. This generally applies to both the kernel and the distros...Linux inherited the nonstandard standards and incompatibility-across-distros thing from UNIX unfortunately. :( LSB is NOT standard...RedHat is also not the Gold Standard for a commercial linux or a linux period.