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The Linux Standard Base was created to lower the overall costs of supporting the Linux platform. LSB identifies and specifies the behavior of common functionality across distributions; distributions are then encouraged to stay compatible with that common base. By reducing the differences between ... [More] individual Linux distributions, the LSB greatly reduces the costs involved with porting applications to different distributions, as well as lowering the cost and effort involved in after-market support of those applications. [Less]

Portland is a joint OSDL/Freedesktop.org initiative to provide independent software developers (ISDs) with stable APIs into Desktop Linux and other Free Desktop platforms. It is hoped that the project will unify KDE and GNOME developers and make it easier for software developers to target both ... [More] environments. The first result of the Portland initiative is Xdg-utils, a free set of open source tools that allows applications to easily integrate with the desktop configuration your customer has chosen to work with. [Less]