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Linux Like Legos: Inside Novell’s New openSUSE Build Service 2.0

Written By
SMK
Sean Michael Kerner
Jul 16, 2010

“How is a Linux distribution put together? For Novell’s
openSUSE, it starts with its newly improved Build Service 2.0.

“Building a Linux distribution is a complex task that involves
both project and package management skills. For Novell’s openSUSE
community Linux distribution, the key tool it uses is the openSUSE
Build Service, which was recently improved with a 2.0 release in
June.

“The open source openSUSE Build Service 2.0 release is the
system that helps to build the openSUSE distribution, which was
updated this week with the 11.3 release.”

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Sean Michael Kerner

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