I think the intended meaning may have been that LSB is severly lacking, and so are the RHEL-type distributions.

I agree about the LSB (I think everyone does - the LSB isn't what anyone would have wanted, just what was possible), but I don't see the problem with the RHEL/Fedora filesystem layout or configuration style. It's certainly different, but aside from familiarity I'm not sure why anyone would prefer /etc/network/interfaces to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts. Besides which, if you look at /etc/network/interfaces on an N900 at least, it makes no mention of the WiFi or GPRS interfaces at all. Similar things are true of desktop distributions now as well, mostly people leave that sort of thing to Network Manager these days. A lot of these old differences are simply being obsoleted out of reality.