In five straightforward steps, this article on IBM's developerWorks website shows you how to build an LSB-certified application. The Linux Standard Base is a big step toward ensuring binary compatibility among Linux applications, and it should greatly reduce the amount of testing and validation required for operation on multiple platforms. Linux inherently has binary compatibility; the Linux Standard Base (LSB), however, has set some rules and guidelines that make this practical for applications.

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