LSB Specification

• Binary (ABI) not source (API) standard

• Specification supports several architectures

  • 1.3 supports
    • x86, 32-bit PowerPC®, Itanium, S390® (32-bit), zSeries® (64-bit)
  • 2.0 adding support for
    • 64-bit PowerPC, AMD64

• Certification

  • More than 30 Linux distribution releases are LSB certified
    • Red Hat, SuSE, Mandrake, Progeny
    • Debian certification in progress