Novell, Inc., has announced that the openSUSE build tool has been expanded to support Red Hat and CentOS Linux distros. openSUSE build tool is a Novell sponsored initiative that enables developers to build packages across multiple Linux distributions. The openSUSE tool currently supports openSUSE, Ubuntu, SUSE(R) Linux Enterprise, Debian and others.
From the announcement:
As its name suggests, the openSUSE project is committed to choice and opposed to the exclusion of innovation simply because it may have originated in another project,” said Michael Loeffler, openSUSE product manager at Novell. “By adding support to build packages for CentOS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the openSUSE Build Service makes it even easier to build packages across multiple Linux distributions, thus further enabling innovative ideas to spread quickly throughout the free and open source
software community. As we seek to streamline and improve collaboration between all Linux developers, the openSUSE Build Service continues to innovate and improve the way packages are built by providing a common framework that works with any Linux distribution.”Developers who want to provide their software to a broader audience of Linux users are often hampered when packages built for one distribution will not work on other distributions. The openSUSE Build Service is the only open source build system that helps developers provide packages with the same high quality for multiple distributions from the same source code. With the system imaging tool KIWI, open source developers can more quickly build a Linux distribution that meets their needs, rigorously test it to
ensure product quality, and easily package it for quick installation.Francis Giannaros, a member of the independent openSUSE board, said, “Web software created by specific Linux distributions has often been hindered by its proprietary nature that restricts its use by others. The openSUSE Build Service remains completely free and open software, and now we are adding full support for building packages for all popular distributions directly at openSUSE.org. The addition of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS as build targets further emphasizes the commitment of the
openSUSE Build Service to flexibility, making it the perfect option for a central development platform. It is also user friendly, stable and actively developed.”
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