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</style><table class="infobox hproduct"><caption class="infobox-title fn">Linux Standard Base</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><div class="infobox-caption">The LSB logo</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Abbreviation</th><td class="infobox-data">LSB</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Status</th><td class="infobox-data">Published</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">First published</th><td class="infobox-data">June 29, 2001<span style="display: none;"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2001-06-29</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Latest version</th><td class="infobox-data">5.0<br>June 2, 2015</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Committee</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="ISO/IEC_JTC_1/SC_22" title="ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22">ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Series</th><td class="infobox-data">ISO/IEC 23360</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Base standards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="POSIX" title="POSIX">POSIX</a>, <a href="Single_UNIX_Specification" title="Single UNIX Specification">SUS</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Domain</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Software_compatibility" class="mw-redirect" title="Software compatibility">Software compatibility</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

<p>The <b>Linux Standard Base</b> (<b>LSB</b>) was a joint project by several <a href="Linux_distribution" title="Linux distribution">Linux distributions</a> under the organizational structure of the <a href="Linux_Foundation" title="Linux Foundation">Linux Foundation</a> to standardize the software system structure, including the <a href="Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard" title="Filesystem Hierarchy Standard">Filesystem Hierarchy Standard</a>. LSB was based on the <a href="POSIX" title="POSIX">POSIX</a> specification, the <a href="Single_UNIX_Specification" title="Single UNIX Specification">Single UNIX Specification</a> (SUS), and several other open standards, but extended them in certain areas.

</p><p>According to LSB:

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<p>The goal of the LSB is to develop and promote a set of open standards that will increase compatibility among Linux distributions and enable software applications to run on any compliant system <a href="Application_binary_interface" title="Application binary interface">even in binary form</a>. In addition, the LSB will help coordinate efforts to recruit software vendors to port and write products for Linux Operating Systems.

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<p>LSB compliance might be certified for a product by a certification procedure.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>LSB specified standard <a href="Library_(software)" class="mw-redirect" title="Library (software)">libraries</a> (centered around the <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">ld-lsb.so</code>), a number of commands and utilities that extend the <a href="POSIX" title="POSIX">POSIX</a> standard, the layout of the <a href="Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard" title="Filesystem Hierarchy Standard">file system hierarchy</a>, <a href="Run_level" class="mw-redirect" title="Run level">run levels</a>, the printing system, including <a href="Spooling" title="Spooling">spoolers</a> such as <a href="CUPS" title="CUPS">CUPS</a> and tools like <a href="Foomatic" title="Foomatic">Foomatic</a>, and several extensions to the <a href="X_Window_System" title="X Window System">X Window System</a>. It also specified boot facilities, such as <i>$local_fs</i>, <i>$network</i>, which were used to indicate service dependencies in <a href="UNIX_System_V" title="UNIX System V">System V</a>-style initialization scripts.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A machine readable comment block at the top of a script provided the information necessary to determine at which point of the initialization process the script should be invoked; it was called the LSB header.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>The command <code>lsb_release -a</code> was available in many systems to get the LSB version details, or could be made available by installing an appropriate package, for example the <code>redhat-lsb</code> package in <a href="Red_Hat" title="Red Hat">Red-Hat</a>-flavored distributions such as <a href="Fedora_(operating_system)" class="mw-redirect" title="Fedora (operating system)">Fedora</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or the <code>lsb-release</code> package in Debian-based distributions.

</p><p>The standard stopped being updated in 2015 and current Linux distributions do not adhere to or offer it; however, the <code>lsb_release</code> command is sometimes still available. On February 7, 2023, a former maintainer of the LSB wrote, "The LSB project is essentially abandoned."<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Backward_compatibility">Backward compatibility</h2></div>

<p>LSB was designed to be binary-compatible and produced a stable <a href="Application_binary_interface" title="Application binary interface">application binary interface</a> (ABI) for <a href="Independent_software_vendor" title="Independent software vendor">independent software vendors</a>.

</p><p>To provide backward compatibility, the LSB adopted an interface deprecation policy to give application developers enough time to adapt in case an interface was removed from LSB. An interface that is to be removed would first be marked as deprecated in an LSB release; that interface would still be supported in that release and at least two subsequent LSB releases. This allowed the developer to rely on every interface in LSB for a known time and also to plan for changes.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>LSB 5.0 was the first major release that broke <a href="Backward_compatibility" title="Backward compatibility">backward compatibility</a> with earlier versions, as it removed <a href="Qt_(software)" title="Qt (software)">Qt</a> 3; applications dynamically linked with Qt 3 libraries were not guaranteed to run on all LSB 5.0-compliant distributions.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Version_history">Version history</h2></div>

<ul><li>1.0: Initial release June 29, 2001.</li>

<li>1.1: Released January 22, 2002. Added hardware-specific specifications (<a href="IA-32" title="IA-32">IA-32</a>).</li>

<li>1.2: Released June 28, 2002. Added hardware-specific specifications (<a href="PowerPC" title="PowerPC">PowerPC</a> <a href="32-bit" class="mw-redirect" title="32-bit">32-bit</a>). Certification began July 2002.</li>

<li>1.2.1: Released October 2002. Added <a href="Itanium" title="Itanium">Itanium</a>.</li>

<li>1.3: Released December 17, 2002. Added hardware-specific specifications (Itanium, Enterprise System Architecture/390, z/Architecture).</li>

<li>2.0: Released August 31, 2004

<ul><li>LSB is modularized to LSB-Core, LSB-CXX, LSB-Graphics, and LSB-<a href="Internationalization_and_localization" title="Internationalization and localization">I18n</a> (not released)</li>

<li>New hardware-specific specifications (PowerPC <a href="64-bit" class="mw-redirect" title="64-bit">64-bit</a>, <a href="AMD64" class="mw-redirect" title="AMD64">AMD64</a>)</li>

<li>Synchronized to <a href="Single_UNIX_Specification" title="Single UNIX Specification">Single UNIX Specification</a> (SUS) version 3</li></ul></li>

<li>2.0.1: Released October 21, 2004, <a href="International_Organization_for_Standardization" title="International Organization for Standardization">ISO</a> version of LSB 2.0, which included specification for all hardware architectures (except LSB-Graphics, of which only a generic version is available).</li>

<li>2.1: Released March 11, 2005.</li>

<li>3.0: Released July 1, 2005. Among other library changes:

<ul><li><a href="GNU_C_Library" class="mw-redirect" title="GNU C Library">GNU C Library</a> version 2.3.4</li>

<li><a href="C%2B%2B" title="C++">C++</a> ABI is changed to the one used by <a href="GNU_Compiler_Collection" title="GNU Compiler Collection">gcc</a> 3.4</li>

<li>The core specification is updated to ISO <a href="POSIX" title="POSIX">POSIX</a> (2003)</li>

<li>Technical Corrigenda 1: 2005</li></ul></li>

<li>3.1: Released October 31, 2005. This version has been submitted as ISO/IEC 23360:2006.</li>

<li>3.2: Released January 28, 2008. This version has been submitted as ISO/IEC 23360:2006.</li>

<li>4.0: Released November 11, 2008. This version contains the following features:

<ul><li><a href="GNU_C_Library" class="mw-redirect" title="GNU C Library">GNU C Library</a> version 2.4</li>

<li>Binary compatibility with LSB 3.x</li>

<li>Easier to use <a href="Software_development_kit" title="Software development kit">SDK</a></li>

<li>Support for newer versions of <a href="GTK" title="GTK">GTK</a> and <a href="Cairo_(graphics)" title="Cairo (graphics)">Cairo</a> graphical libraries</li>

<li><a href="Java_(programming_language)" title="Java (programming language)">Java</a> (optional module)</li>

<li>Simpler ways of creating LSB-compliant RPM packages</li>

<li>Crypto API (via the <a href="Network_Security_Services" title="Network Security Services">Network Security Services</a> library) (optional module)</li></ul></li>

<li>4.1: Released February 16, 2011:<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

<ul><li>Java removed<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>

<li>"Trial Use" modules from LSB 4.0, covering multimedia (<a href="Advanced_Linux_Sound_Architecture" title="Advanced Linux Sound Architecture">ALSA</a>), security (NSS) and desktop miscellaneous (<a href="Xdg-utils" class="mw-redirect" title="Xdg-utils">xdg-utils</a>) have been promoted as required submodules</li>

<li>Updated <a href="GTK%2B" class="mw-redirect" title="GTK+">GTK+</a>, Cairo and <a href="CUPS" title="CUPS">CUPS</a> libraries</li>

<li>Three new test suites added</li></ul></li>

<li>5.0: Released June 2, 2015, This version has been submitted as ISO/IEC 23360:2021

<ul><li><a href="GNU_C_Library" class="mw-redirect" title="GNU C Library">GNU C Library</a> version 2.10 (for psiginfo)</li>

<li>First major release that breaks backward compatibility with earlier versions (compatible with LSB 3.0, and mostly compatible with LSB 3.1 and later, with some exceptions<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>)</li>

<li>Incorporates the changes made in <a href="Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard" title="Filesystem Hierarchy Standard">FHS 3.0</a></li>

<li>Qt 3 library has been removed</li>

<li>Evolved module strategy; LSB is modularized to LSB Core, LSB Desktop, LSB Languages, LSB Imaging, and LSB Trial Use</li></ul></li></ul>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="ISO/IEC_standard">ISO/IEC standard</h2></div>

<p>The LSB, version 3.1, is registered as an official <a href="International_Organization_for_Standardization" title="International Organization for Standardization">ISO</a>/<a href="International_Electrotechnical_Commission" title="International Electrotechnical Commission">IEC</a> international standard. The main parts of it are:

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<ul><li>ISO/IEC 23360-1:2006 Linux Standard Base (LSB) core specification 3.1 — Part 1: Generic specification<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>

<li>ISO/IEC 23360-2:2006 Linux Standard Base (LSB) core specification 3.1 — Part 2: Specification for IA-32 architecture</li>

<li>ISO/IEC 23360-3:2006 Linux Standard Base (LSB) core specification 3.1 — Part 3: Specification for IA-64 architecture</li>

<li>ISO/IEC 23360-4:2006 Linux Standard Base (LSB) core specification 3.1 — Part 4: Specification for AMD64 architecture</li>

<li>ISO/IEC 23360-5:2006 Linux Standard Base (LSB) core specification 3.1 — Part 5: Specification for <a href="PPC32" class="mw-redirect" title="PPC32">PPC32</a> architecture</li>

<li>ISO/IEC 23360-6:2006 Linux Standard Base (LSB) core specification 3.1 — Part 6: Specification for <a href="PPC64" class="mw-redirect" title="PPC64">PPC64</a> architecture</li>

<li>ISO/IEC 23360-7:2006 Linux Standard Base (LSB) core specification 3.1 — Part 7: Specification for <a href="ESA/390" class="mw-redirect" title="ESA/390">S390</a> architecture</li>

<li>ISO/IEC 23360-8:2006 Linux Standard Base (LSB) core specification 3.1 — Part 8: Specification for <a href="Z/Architecture" title="Z/Architecture">S390X</a> architecture</li></ul>

<p>There is also ISO/IEC TR 24715:2006 which identifies areas of conflict between ISO/IEC 23360 (the Linux Standard Base 3.1 specification) and the ISO/IEC 9945:2003 (POSIX) International Standard.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>The LSB, version 5.0, is also registered as an official <a href="International_Organization_for_Standardization" title="International Organization for Standardization">ISO</a>/<a href="International_Electrotechnical_Commission" title="International Electrotechnical Commission">IEC</a> international standard.

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<ul><li>ISO/IEC 23360-1-1:2021 Linux Standard Base (LSB) — Part 1-1: Common definitions</li>

<li>ISO/IEC 23360-1-2:2021 Linux Standard Base (LSB) — Part 1-2: Core specification generic part</li>

<li>ISO/IEC 23360-1-3:2021 Linux Standard Base (LSB) — Part 1-3: Desktop specification generic part</li>

<li>ISO/IEC 23360-1-4:2021 Linux Standard Base (LSB) — Part 1-4: Languages specification</li>

<li>ISO/IEC 23360-1-5:2021 Linux Standard Base (LSB) — Part 1-5: Imaging specification</li>

<li>ISO/IEC TS 23360-1-6:2021 Linux Standard Base (LSB) — Part 1-6: Graphics and Gtk3 specification</li>

<li>ISO/IEC 23360-2-2:2021 Linux Standard Base (LSB) — Part 2-2: Core specification for X86-32 architecture</li>

<li>ISO/IEC 23360-2-3:2021 Linux Standard Base (LSB) — Part 2-3: Desktop specification for X86-32 architecture</li>

<li>ISO/IEC 23360-3-2:2021 Linux Standard Base (LSB) — Part 3-2: Core specification for IA64 (Itanium™) architecture</li>

<li>ISO/IEC 23360-3-3:2021 Linux Standard Base (LSB) — Part 3-3: Desktop specification for IA64 (Itanium TM) architecture</li>

<li>ISO/IEC 23360-4-2:2021 Linux Standard Base (LSB) — Part 4-2: Core specification for AMD64 (X86-64) architecture</li>

<li>ISO/IEC 23360-4-3:2021 Linux Standard Base (LSB) — Part 4-3: Desktop specification for AMD64 (X86-64) architecture</li>

<li>ISO/IEC 23360-5-2:2021 Linux Standard Base (LSB) — Part 5-2: Core specification for PowerPC 32 architecture</li>

<li>ISO/IEC 23360-5-3:2021 Linux Standard Base (LSB) — Part 5-3: Desktop specification for PowerPC 32 architecture</li>

<li>ISO/IEC 23360-6-2:2021 Linux Standard Base (LSB) — Part 6-2: Core specification for PowerPC 64 architecture</li>

<li>ISO/IEC 23360-6-3:2021 Linux Standard Base (LSB) — Part 6-3: Desktop specification for PowerPC 64 architecture</li>

<li>ISO/IEC 23360-7-2:2021 Linux Standard Base (LSB) — Part 7-2: Core specification for S390 architecture</li>

<li>ISO/IEC 23360-7-3:2021 Linux Standard Base (LSB) — Part 7-3: Desktop specification for S390 architecture</li>

<li>ISO/IEC 23360-8-2:2021 Linux Standard Base (LSB) — Part 8-2: Core specification for S390X architecture</li>

<li>ISO/IEC 23360-8-3:2021 Linux Standard Base (LSB) — Part 8-3: Desktop specification for S390X architecture</li></ul>

<p>ISO/IEC 23360 and ISO/IEC TR 24715 can be freely downloaded from ISO website.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2></div>

<p>While LSB was a standard and without a competitor, it was followed only by few <a href="Linux_distribution" title="Linux distribution">Linux distributions</a>. For instance, only 21 distribution releases (versions) were certified for LSB version 4.0, notably <a href="Red_Flag_Linux" title="Red Flag Linux">Red Flag Linux</a> Desktop 6.0, <a href="Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux" title="Red Hat Enterprise Linux">Red Hat Enterprise Linux</a> 6.0, <a href="SUSE_Linux_Enterprise" title="SUSE Linux Enterprise">SUSE Linux Enterprise</a> 11, and <a href="Ubuntu_version_history#0904" title="Ubuntu version history">Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> even fewer were certified for version 4.1.

</p><p>The LSB was criticized<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> for not taking input from projects, most notably the <a href="Debian" title="Debian">Debian</a> project, outside the sphere of its member companies.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Choice_of_the_RPM_package_format">Choice of the RPM package format</h3></div>

<p>LSB specified that software packages should either be delivered as an LSB-compliant installer,<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or (preferably) be delivered in a restricted form of the <a href="RPM_Package_Manager" title="RPM Package Manager">RPM Package Manager</a> format.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>This choice of package format precluded the use of other existing package formats not compatible with RPM. To address this, the standard did not dictate which package format the system must use for its own packages, merely that RPM must be supported to allow packages from third-party distributors to be installed on a conforming system.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Limitations_on_Debian">Limitations on Debian</h3></div>

<p>Debian included optional support for LSB early on, at version 1.1 in "woody" (3.0; July 19, 2002), 2.0 in "sarge" (3.1; June 6, 2005), 3.1 in "etch" (4.0; April 8, 2007), 3.2 in "lenny" (5.0; February 14, 2009) and 4.1 in "wheezy" (7; May 4, 2013). To use foreign LSB-compliant RPM packages, the <a href="End-user" class="mw-redirect" title="End-user">end-user</a> needs to use Debian's <a href="Alien_(file_converter)" title="Alien (file converter)">Alien</a> program to transform them into the native package format and then install them.

</p><p>The LSB-specified RPM format had a restricted subset of RPM features—to block usage of RPM features that would be untranslatable to .deb with Alien or other package conversion programs, and vice versa, as each format has capabilities the other lacks. In practice, not all Linux binary packages were necessarily LSB-compliant, so while most could be converted between .rpm and .deb, this operation was restricted to a subset of packages.

</p><p>By using Alien, Debian was LSB-compatible for all intents and purposes, but according to the description of their <code>lsb</code> package,<sup id="cite_ref-debian-lsb-package_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-debian-lsb-package-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the presence of the package "does not imply that we believe that Debian fully complies with the Linux Standard Base, and should not be construed as a statement that Debian is LSB-compliant."<sup id="cite_ref-debian-lsb-package_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-debian-lsb-package-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>Debian strived to comply with the LSB, but with many limitations.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, this effort ceased around July 2015 due to lack of interest and workforce inside the project.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In September 2015, the Debian project confirmed that while support for <a href="Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard" title="Filesystem Hierarchy Standard">Filesystem Hierarchy Standard</a> (FHS) would continue, support for LSB had been dropped.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ubuntu followed Debian in November 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Quality_of_compliance_test_suites">Quality of compliance test suites</h3></div>

<p>Additionally, the compliance test suites were criticized for being buggy and incomplete—most notably, in 2005 Ulrich Drepper criticized the LSB for poorly written tests which can cause incompatibility between LSB-certified distributions when some implement incorrect behavior to make buggy tests work, while others apply for and receive waivers from complying with the tests.<sup id="cite_ref-drepper-2005_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-drepper-2005-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also denounced a lack of application testing, pointing out that testing only distributions can never solve the problem of applications relying on implementation-defined behavior.<sup id="cite_ref-drepper-2005_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-drepper-2005-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>For the vendors considering LSB certifications in their portability efforts, the <a href="Linux_Foundation" title="Linux Foundation">Linux Foundation</a> sponsored a tool that analyzed and provided guidance on symbols and libraries that go beyond the LSB.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<ul><li><a href="Intel_Binary_Compatibility_Standard" title="Intel Binary Compatibility Standard">Intel Binary Compatibility Standard</a> (iBCS)</li>

<li><a href="POSIX" title="POSIX">POSIX</a> (Portable Operating System Interface)</li></ul>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2></div>

<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/lsb.shtml">Linux Standard Base Specifications Archive</a>, linuxfoundation.org</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/lsb/start">Linux Standard Base (LSB)</a>, wiki.linuxfoundation.org</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://linuxtesting.org/results/testsuite">Open Linux VERification (OLVER) Project</a>, linuxtesting.org</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://pkgs.org/search/?q=lsb">search for lsb packages</a>, pkgs.org</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://launchpad.net/lsb">lsb in Launchpad</a>, launchpad.net - bug reports</li></ul>

<p>Media:

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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.debian.org/News/1998/19980826e">Additional Vendors Participate in Growing LSB Effort</a>, 1998, debian.org - describes the breakdown of teams (at the time) and who was involved, of historical interest</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/17/1427257&tid=185&tid=190&tid=106">Four Linux Vendors Agree On An LSB Implementation</a>, 2004, slashdot.org</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.licquia.org/archives/2005/09/27/yes-the-lsb-has-value/">Yes, the LSB Has Value</a>, 2005, licquia.org – response to Drepper by Jeff Licquia</li></ul>

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</style><div id="Linux_kernel514" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="Linux_kernel" title="Linux kernel">Linux kernel</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Organization</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Kernel19" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Kernel</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Linux_Foundation" title="Linux Foundation">Linux Foundation</a></li>

<li><a href="Linux_Mark_Institute" title="Linux Mark Institute">Linux Mark Institute</a></li>

<li><a href="Linus's_law" title="Linus's law">Linus's law</a></li>

<li><a href="Tanenbaum%E2%80%93Torvalds_debate" title="Tanenbaum–Torvalds debate">Tanenbaum–Torvalds debate</a></li>

<li><a href="SCO%E2%80%93Linux_disputes" title="SCO–Linux disputes">SCO disputes</a></li>

<li><a href="Linaro" title="Linaro">Linaro</a></li>

<li><a href="Menuconfig" title="Menuconfig">menuconfig</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_Linux-supported_computer_architectures" title="List of Linux-supported computer architectures">Supported computer architectures</a></li>

<li><a href="Linux_kernel_version_history" title="Linux kernel version history">Version history</a></li>

<li><a href="Criticism_of_Linux" title="Criticism of Linux">Criticism</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Support</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li>Developers

<ul><li><i><a href="The_Linux_Programming_Interface" title="The Linux Programming Interface">The Linux Programming Interface</a></i></li>

<li><a href="Kernel.org" title="Kernel.org">kernel.org</a></li>

<li><a href="Linux_conference" class="mw-redirect" title="Linux conference">Linux conferences</a></li></ul></li>

<li>Users

<ul><li><a href="Linux_user_group" title="Linux user group">Linux User Group (LUG)</a></li></ul></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">People</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Werner_Almesberger" title="Werner Almesberger">Werner Almesberger</a></li>

<li><a href="H._Peter_Anvin" title="H. Peter Anvin">H. Peter Anvin</a></li>

<li><a href="Jens_Axboe" title="Jens Axboe">Jens Axboe</a></li>

<li><a href="Moshe_Bar_(investor)" title="Moshe Bar (investor)">Moshe Bar</a></li>

<li><a href="Suparna_Bhattacharya" title="Suparna Bhattacharya">Suparna Bhattacharya</a></li>

<li><a href="Andries_Brouwer" title="Andries Brouwer">Andries Brouwer</a></li>

<li><a href="Matthew_Garrett" title="Matthew Garrett">Matthew Garrett</a></li>

<li><a href="Avi_Kivity" title="Avi Kivity">Avi Kivity</a></li>

<li><a href="Con_Kolivas" title="Con Kolivas">Con Kolivas</a></li>

<li><a href="Greg_Kroah-Hartman" title="Greg Kroah-Hartman">Greg Kroah-Hartman</a></li>

<li><a href="Benson_Leung" title="Benson Leung">Benson Leung</a></li>

<li><a href="Robert_Love" title="Robert Love">Robert Love</a></li>

<li><a href="David_S._Miller" title="David S. Miller">David S. Miller</a></li>

<li><a href="Ingo_Moln%C3%A1r" title="Ingo Molnár">Ingo Molnár</a></li>

<li><a href="Andrew_Morton_(computer_programmer)" title="Andrew Morton (computer programmer)">Andrew Morton</a></li>

<li><a href="Hans_Reiser" title="Hans Reiser">Hans Reiser</a></li>

<li><a href="Rusty_Russell" title="Rusty Russell">Rusty Russell</a></li>

<li><a href="Shuah_Khan" title="Shuah Khan">Shuah Khan</a></li>

<li><a href="Linus_Torvalds" title="Linus Torvalds">Linus Torvalds</a></li>

<li><a href="Theodore_Ts'o" title="Theodore Ts'o">Theodore Ts'o</a></li>

<li><a href="Stephen_Tweedie" title="Stephen Tweedie">Stephen Tweedie</a></li>

<li><a href="Harald_Welte" title="Harald Welte">Harald Welte</a></li>

<li><a href="Chris_Wright_(programmer)" title="Chris Wright (programmer)">Chris Wright</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Technical</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Debugging</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="Ftrace" title="Ftrace">ftrace</a></li>

<li><a href="Kdump_(Linux)" title="Kdump (Linux)">kdump</a></li>

<li><a href="Linux_kernel_oops" title="Linux kernel oops">Linux kernel oops</a></li>

<li><a href="SystemTap" title="SystemTap">SystemTap</a></li>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Booting_process_of_Linux" title="Booting process of Linux">Startup</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Vmlinux" title="Vmlinux">vmlinux</a></li>

<li><a href="System.map" title="System.map">System.map</a></li>

<li><a href="Dracut_(software)" title="Dracut (software)">dracut</a></li>

<li><a href="Initrd" class="mw-redirect" title="Initrd">initrd</a></li>

<li><a href="Initramfs" class="mw-redirect" title="Initramfs">initramfs</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Linux_kernel_interfaces" title="Linux kernel interfaces">ABIs</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Linux_kernel_interfaces" title="Linux kernel interfaces">APIs</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Kernel</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Linux_kernel_interfaces#SCI" title="Linux kernel interfaces">System Call<br>Interface</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="POSIX" title="POSIX">POSIX</a>

<ul><li><a href="Ioctl" title="Ioctl">ioctl</a></li>

<li><a href="Select_(Unix)" title="Select (Unix)">select</a></li>

<li><a href="Close_(system_call)" title="Close (system call)">close</a></li>

<li><a href="Linux_kernel_interfaces#Additions_to_POSIX" title="Linux kernel interfaces">Linux-only</a>

<ul><li><a href="Futex" title="Futex">futex</a></li>

<li><a href="Epoll" title="Epoll">epoll</a></li>

<li><a href="Splice_(system_call)" title="Splice (system call)">splice</a></li>

<li><a href="Dnotify" title="Dnotify">dnotify</a></li>

<li><a href="Inotify" title="Inotify">inotify</a></li>

<li><a href="Readahead" title="Readahead">readahead</a></li>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Linux_kernel_interfaces#In–kernel_APIs" title="Linux kernel interfaces">In-kernel</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="Crypto_API_(Linux)" title="Crypto API (Linux)">Crypto API</a></li>

<li><a href="Io_uring" title="Io uring">io uring</a></li>

<li><a href="Kernfs_(Linux)" title="Kernfs (Linux)">kernfs</a></li>

<li><a href="Memory_barrier" title="Memory barrier">Memory barrier</a></li>

<li><a href="Video4Linux" title="Video4Linux">Video4Linux</a></li>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="User_space_and_kernel_space" title="User space and kernel space">Userspace</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Daemon_(computing)" title="Daemon (computing)">Daemons</a>,<br><a href="Virtual_file_system" title="Virtual file system">File systems</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li>bpffs</li>

<li><a href="Configfs" title="Configfs">configfs</a></li>

<li><a href="Devfs" class="mw-redirect" title="Devfs">devfs</a></li>

<li><a href="Devpts" title="Devpts">devpts</a></li>

<li><a href="Debugfs" title="Debugfs">debugfs</a></li>

<li>hugetlbfs</li>

<li>pipefs</li>

<li><a href="Procfs" title="Procfs">procfs</a></li>

<li>securityfs</li>

<li>sockfs</li>

<li><a href="Sysfs" title="Sysfs">sysfs</a></li>

<li><a href="Tmpfs" title="Tmpfs">tmpfs</a></li>

<li><a href="Systemd" title="Systemd">systemd</a>

<li><a href="Kmscon" title="Kmscon">Kmscon</a></li>

<li><a href="Binfmt_misc" title="Binfmt misc">binfmt_misc</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Wrapper_library" title="Wrapper library">Wrapper<br>libraries</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="C_standard_library" title="C standard library">C standard library</a>

<ul><li><a href="Glibc" title="Glibc">glibc</a></li>

<li><a href="UClibc" title="UClibc">uClibc</a></li>

<li><a href="Bionic_(software)" title="Bionic (software)">Bionic</a>

<ul><li><a href="Libhybris" title="Libhybris">libhybris</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Dietlibc" title="Dietlibc">dietlibc</a></li>

<li><a href="Embedded_GLIBC" class="mw-redirect" title="Embedded GLIBC">EGLIBC</a></li>

<li><a href="Klibc" title="Klibc">klibc</a></li>

<li><a href="Newlib" title="Newlib">Newlib</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Cgroups" title="Cgroups">libcgroup</a></li>

<li><a href="Direct_Rendering_Manager" title="Direct Rendering Manager">libdrm</a></li>

<li><a href="Advanced_Linux_Sound_Architecture" title="Advanced Linux Sound Architecture">libalsa</a></li>

<li><a href="Evdev" title="Evdev">libevdev</a></li>

<li><a href="Libusb" title="Libusb">libusb</a></li>

<li><a href="Io_uring" title="Io uring">liburing</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Components</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Loadable_kernel_module" title="Loadable kernel module">Kernel modules</a></li>

<li><a href="BlueZ" class="mw-redirect" title="BlueZ">BlueZ</a></li>

<li><a href="Cgroups" title="Cgroups">cgroups</a></li>

<li><a href="Linux_console" title="Linux console">Console</a></li>

<li><a href="Bcache" title="Bcache">bcache</a></li>

<li><a href="Device_mapper" title="Device mapper">Device mapper</a></li>

<li><a href="Dm-cache" title="Dm-cache">dm-cache</a></li>

<li><a href="Dm-crypt" title="Dm-crypt">dm-crypt</a></li>

<li><a href="Evdev" title="Evdev">evdev</a></li>

<li><a href="Kernel_same-page_merging" title="Kernel same-page merging">Kernel same-page merging</a> (KSM)</li>

<li><a href="Linux_framebuffer" title="Linux framebuffer">Framebuffer</a></li>

<li><a href="KMS_driver" class="mw-redirect" title="KMS driver">KMS driver</a></li>

<li><a href="Netfilter" title="Netfilter">Netfilter</a></li>

<li><a href="Netlink" title="Netlink">Netlink</a></li>

<li><a href="Nftables" title="Nftables">nftables</a></li>

<li><a href="Network_scheduler" title="Network scheduler">Network scheduler</a></li>

<li><a href="Zswap" title="Zswap">zswap</a></li></ul>

<ul><li><a href="Scheduling_(computing)#Linux" title="Scheduling (computing)">Process and I/O schedulers</a>:</li>

<li><a href="Brain_Fuck_Scheduler" title="Brain Fuck Scheduler">Brain Fuck Scheduler</a></li>

<li><a href="Completely_Fair_Scheduler" title="Completely Fair Scheduler">Completely Fair Scheduler</a> (CFS)</li>

<li><a href="Earliest_eligible_virtual_deadline_first_scheduling" title="Earliest eligible virtual deadline first scheduling">Earliest eligible virtual deadline first</a> (EEVDF)</li>

<li><a href="Noop_scheduler" title="Noop scheduler">Noop scheduler</a></li>

<li><a href="O(n)_scheduler" title="O(n) scheduler">O(n) scheduler</a></li>

<li><a href="O(1)_scheduler" title="O(1) scheduler">O(1) scheduler</a></li>

<li><a href="SCHED_DEADLINE" title="SCHED DEADLINE">SCHED_DEADLINE</a></li>

<li><a href="SCHED_FIFO" class="mw-redirect" title="SCHED FIFO">SCHED_FIFO</a></li>

<li><a href="SCHED_RR" class="mw-redirect" title="SCHED RR">SCHED_RR</a></li></ul>

<ul><li><a href="Linux_Security_Modules" title="Linux Security Modules">Security Modules</a>: <a href="AppArmor" title="AppArmor">AppArmor</a></li>

<li><a href="Exec_Shield" title="Exec Shield">Exec Shield</a></li>

<li><a href="Seccomp" title="Seccomp">seccomp</a></li>

<li><a href="Security-Enhanced_Linux" title="Security-Enhanced Linux">SELinux</a></li>

<li><a href="Smack_(software)" title="Smack (software)">Smack</a></li>

<li><a href="Tomoyo_Linux" title="Tomoyo Linux">Tomoyo Linux</a></li>

<li><a href="Linux_PAM" title="Linux PAM">Linux PAM</a></li></ul>

<ul><li><a href="Device_driver" title="Device driver">Device drivers</a>

<li><a href="Free_and_open-source_graphics_device_driver" title="Free and open-source graphics device driver">graphics</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Raw_device" title="Raw device">Raw device</a></li></ul>

<ul><li><a href="Initramfs" class="mw-redirect" title="Initramfs">initramfs</a></li>

<li><a href="KernelCare" title="KernelCare">KernelCare</a></li>

<li><a href="Kexec" title="Kexec">kexec</a></li>

<li><a href="KGraft" title="KGraft">kGraft</a></li>

<li><a href="Kpatch" title="Kpatch">kpatch</a></li>

<li><a href="Ksplice" title="Ksplice">Ksplice</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Mainline_Linux" class="mw-redirect" title="Mainline Linux">Mainline</a>

<ul><li><a href="Linux_kernel" title="Linux kernel">Linux kernel</a></li>

<li><a href="Linux-libre" title="Linux-libre">Linux-libre</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="High-performance_computing" title="High-performance computing">High-performance computing</a>

<li><a href="Compute_Node_Linux" title="Compute Node Linux">Compute Node Linux</a></li>

<li><a href="Slurm_Workload_Manager" title="Slurm Workload Manager">SLURM</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Real-time_computing" title="Real-time computing">Real-time computing</a>

<ul><li><a href="RTLinux" title="RTLinux">RTLinux</a></li>

<li><a href="Xenomai" title="Xenomai">Xenomai</a></li>

<li><a href="PREEMPT_RT" title="PREEMPT RT">PREEMPT_RT</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Memory_management_unit" title="Memory management unit">MMU</a>-less

<ul><li><a href="%CE%9CClinux" title="ΜClinux">μClinux</a></li>

<li><a href="PSXLinux" title="PSXLinux">PSXLinux</a></li></ul></li></ul>

</div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Virtualization18" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Virtualization" title="Virtualization">Virtualization</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Hypervisor" title="Hypervisor">Hypervisor</a>

<li><a href="OS-level_virtualization" title="OS-level virtualization">OS-level virtualization</a>

<ul><li><a href="Linux-VServer" title="Linux-VServer">Linux-VServer</a></li>

<li><a href="Lguest" title="Lguest">Lguest</a></li>

<li><a href="OpenVZ" title="OpenVZ">OpenVZ</a></li></ul></li>

<li>Other

<ul><li><a href="L4Linux" title="L4Linux">L4Linux</a></li>

<li><a href="User-mode_Linux" title="User-mode Linux">User-mode Linux</a></li>

<li><a href="MkLinux" title="MkLinux">MkLinux</a></li>

<li><a href="Cooperative_Linux" title="Cooperative Linux">coLinux</a></li></ul></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Linux_adoption" title="Linux adoption">Adoption</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Rangeof_use48" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Linux_range_of_use" title="Linux range of use">Range<br>of use</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Linux_desktop_environments" class="mw-redirect" title="Linux desktop environments">Desktop</a></li>

<li><a href="Linux_on_embedded_systems" title="Linux on embedded systems">Embedded</a></li>

<li><a href="Video_games_and_Linux" title="Video games and Linux">Gaming</a></li>

<li>Thin client:

<li>Server:

<li><a href="Linux-powered_device" title="Linux-powered device">Devices</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Adopters</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="List_of_Linux_adopters" title="List of Linux adopters">List of Linux adopters</a></li></ul>

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