For ISVs that are writing Linux applications, the Linux foundation has launhed a killer development tools. Some of the highlights of Linux Application Checker (AppChecker):

  • Its open source
  • It checks .rpm, .deb, tar.gz and tar.bz2 files.
  • Checks the application for LSB compliance.
  • And check against all the Linux distribution.

So you can check if your app will work with all Linux distributions without actually installing all the distributions. Now that’s something that should excite all the developers.