"OK, so actually it's never been that easy to move applications
from Unix to Linux or from one Linux family to another. The basics
are simple. It's all those nagging details of which library version
is in one distribution and not in another and the like that makes
porting programs a problem.
"Now, thanks to the joint efforts of the Linux Foundation and
openSUSE, any programmer has a straightforward way to get their
program up and working in any Linux distribution without pulling
out their hair. It's called the openSUSE Build Service. Despite the
name, the Build Service actually enables you to create packages not
just for openSUSE, but for the Red Hat family-CentOS, Fedora, and
Red Hat Enterprise Linux-the Debian/Ubuntu group, and
Mandriva."
