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Getting Started

Don't know where to start?

• Porting to the Linux Standard Base tutorial

• LSB Specification

• Making distribution-independent printer and scanner driver packages

Get Informed

Highlighted Articles:

• Anatomy of the Linux Kernel: Excellent article explaining all those sub-systems and how the kernel's components are organized. Read it here
  

• Read Porting Applications to Linux Standard Base Made Easy on the Intel Software Network.
  

• Would you like to find out if your application is LSB compliant? Download this lightweight Application Test Kit and find out

Tools

• LSB Software Development Kit (SDK)
  (make your application LSB compliant)
  
• LSB Driver Development Kit (DDK)
  (make LSB-compliant printer and scanner driver packages)
  
• LSB Application Testkit
  (test your application's compliance with LSB)
  
• LSB Navigator
  (browse and search LSB standardized elements - interfaces, libraries, etc.)
  
• Linux Application Analysis
  (check statistics on using Linux interfaces by various applications)
  
• LSB Sample Implementation
  (test your application in the minimal LSB environment)
  
• Request an interface if it's not in the database or the LSB roadmap
  
• All downloads

Support

• If you get stuck, get help on the lsb-discuss mailing list or on the IRC channel #lsb at irc.freestandards.org.
• View (and add to) Frequently Asked Questions on Developing to the LSB

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