The path to application portability is dependent upon whether your application is already built, or still in production.

• The Building a New Application section contains several tools and pages of content designed to help developers and vendors who are building their applications and want to maximize portability.
  
  
  • Build an LSB-compliant application provides a guideline to building new compliant apps.
    

• The LSB Sample Implementation is used to test application compliance.
  

• The Modify an Existing Application section is for those vendors with existing applications
  
  
  • Porting to the LSB teaches you how to port an app to the LSB standard.
    

• Porting to multiples distros demonstrates porting to just the distributions you choose.