gbjbaanb writes "Ever thought it was difficult to write software for Linux? For multiple distros? InternetNews reports that the LSB is making a push for their next release (due out later this year) that should help make all that much easier.
Although the LSB has not lived up to expectations, this time round Linux has a higher profile and ISVs are more interested. This is to help persuade them to develop applications that will run on any LSB-compliant Linux distribution. If it gets adopted, LSB 4 could bring a new wave of multidistribution Linux application development.
"It is critically important for Linux to have an easy way for software developers to write to distro 'N,' whether it's Red Hat, Ubuntu or Novell," he said. The reason you need that is because we don't want what happened to Unix to happen to Linux in terms of fragmentation." says Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation
The LSB defines a core set of APIs and libraries, so ISVs can develop and port applications that will work on LSB-certified Linux distributions. Maybe this time they'll make it work with Debian!" Link to Original Source
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