For the record, Mandriva has a similar version called 'Free' which the commercial version is based on, although Mandriva does coordinate all the releases. Much of the development happens community style, like Debian though. With few exceptions, a well written RPM should work on all current versions of Mandriva, RedHat, Fedora, CentOS, etc. Search around for any applications distributed as a single RPM for such distros and the applicable spec file should be helpful. Expect the only catchy parts to be figuring out the name of any external packages you might require. <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Sean O'Malley <<a href="mailto:picasso@madflower.com">picasso@madflower.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> IIRC the closest you are going to get is the trial version of SuSe or OpenSuse. They don't have source available for a number of their features. I don't know if it is still the case but at one time even yast was covered under their proprietary license and not legally available unless you had the SuSE license. RedHat has remained open and keeps their software opensource. They do have 3rd party licensed software they cannot release source code for, but they do a pretty good job of keeping that minimum which is why there can be a CentOS. <div><div></div><div class="h5"> On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Marcus Rademacher wrote: > My company makes software products, and we need to test on multiple > platforms. Most of our Linux customers use either Red Hat Enterprise Linux > or SUSE Enterprise Linux. We have RHEL in house, but we'd like to get SUSE > as well. I'm aware of CentOS, and that it is virtually the same OS as RHEL > but without Red Hat trademarks. Is there such a distribution for SUSE Ent. > Linux? openSUSE isn't what I'm looking for here, but something that's a > CentOS-like entity, but for SUSE Enterprise Linux. > > Marcus > </div></div> _______________________________________________ linux-user mailing list <a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a> <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user" target="_blank">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a> _______________________________________________ linux-user mailing list <a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a> <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user" target="_blank">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a> </blockquote></div>