The latter offers up to 400 build slots, but external services may impose limitations as to what packages are allowed to be hosted, so private installations are usually chosen when proprietary or legally problematic software is to be hosted.Įach packager has a 'home' project by default where they can upload sources and definitions on how to build RPM or Debian packages. One can either run the Open Build Service as a private installation, or utilize public instances such as the openSUSE Build Service located at, hosted by SUSE. It also delivers a collaboration environment, allowing developer groups to build and submit changes to other projects. Also, various companies, MeeGo project and Tizen are using it for developing their distribution. In an acknowledgement of its usefulness to the wider Linux community, the Linux Foundation has announced that the project will be added to the Linux Developer Network (LDN).

The Build Service software is published under the GPL. Also, product and appliance building is supported by OBS. It typically simplifies the packaging process, so developers can more easily package a single program for many distributions, and many openSUSE releases, making more packages available to users regardless of what distribution they use. The Open Build Service (formerly called openSUSE Build Service) is an open and complete distribution development platform designed to encourage developers to compile packages for multiple Linux distributions including SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, openSUSE, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Mandriva, Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, and Arch Linux.

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