Operating System Interface Standardization
- PASC ("Portable Application Standards Committee". Official IEEE development group for the POSIX standards.) (ml)
- Open POSIX Test Suite (Free test suite for the POSIX 2001 API's) (cvs) (ml)
- OpenGroup CSRG ("Common Standards Revision Group". Working group established to consider the common revision of: ISO/IEC 9945-1, ISO/IEC 9945-2, IEEE Std 1003.1, IEEE Std 1003.2 and the appropriate parts of the Single Un*x Specification.) (ml)
- Single UN*X Specification (A specification part in the OS specification puzzle. Free registration is required.)
- OpenIPMI (Initiative to develop and promote free software implementing the IPMI interface standard, to remotely control and monitor servers) See also: Out-of-band System Management Projects (from the System Management section)
- FHS ("Filesystem Hierarchy Standard". Reference guide on how to setup and manage a Un*x file/directory layout) (cvs) (ml)
- ELF ("Executable and Linking Format". File format specification for dynamic linking and loading of programs and libraries.)
- OpenI18N.org (Initiative to develop and promote free standards for software internationalization)
- FreeDesktop.org (Community support site for developing and improving interoperability for free desktop environments) (cvs) (ml) (blog)
- Free Standards Accessibility Workgroup (Initiative to develop and promote free and open accessibility standards)
- LSB ("Linux Standard Base". GNU/Linux specific OS interface specification for installing and running binary-only applications and a minimal environment for the support of installation scripts for these applications.) (cvs) (ml)
- OpenPrinting.org (Working group for developing and promoting standards for desktop printing systems) (ml)
- CGL ("Carrier Grade Linux". Requirements specification for GNU/Linux distros used in in telecommunication systems.) (ml) (cglinux CGL test suite) (cvs)