Listener Tony alerted me to this.

Normally I would consider this too geeky for a beginner GNU/Linux audience (not that you guys can’t handle it, just that you might not care this early in the game!) but I think the idea behind the Linux Standard Base (LSB) project bears discussion.

I wrote a little article on this subject over on Jurgle, here complete with links to the original article and the LSB project website itself. But in the interest of brevity, here’s what I think is the pertinent part:

Here’s my nickle-and-dime explanation: At a high level GNU/Linux comes with two distinct parts: the kernel and the rest of the stuff. The kernel is responsible for down and dirty stuff like talking to the hardware and allocating memory. The rest of the stuff (sometimes referred to as the GNU or Operating System part of GNU/Linux) is responsible for everything else: giving the user a screen to look at and tools to actually use the computer.

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