OpenELA is introducing ELValidated, a verification and interoperability suite for Enterprise Linux operating systems. This suite gives organizations and developers the ability to verify the compatibility of their Enterprise Linux distributions.
According to OpenELA, this compatibility enables software and hardware vendors to reduce testing costs, resource commitments, and risk while giving end-users more choice and confidence in using compatible versions, as well as more flexibility in their Enterprise Linux distribution options.
ELValidated is an open source toolkit which uses industry standardized technology to validate the binary interface of libraries in each operating system. The tool checks the Application Binary Interfaces (ABI) for critical libraries and packages against published ABIs hosted by the OpenELA organization, and Enterprise Linux vendors whose distributions meet this standard can be confident that their distributions are binary compatible with the Enterprise Linux standard.
This standard can also be used by software application vendors: vendors whose software is supported on environments that meet the OpenELA Compatibility Standard can be confident that their applications will run on any compatible Enterprise Linux distribution.
OpenELA’s compatibility reports can be found here, https://github.com/openela/Compatibility.
ISVs, IHVs, and Linux developers benefit from ELValidated by gaining validation and assurance that their applications can run across all Linux distributions without any modifications or recompilations.
ELValidated can be used by organizations to validate changes to existing releases and compatibility between releases, helping verify that features added to a given operating system haven’t broken compatibility with earlier versions.
With ELValidated, organizations and developers can increase their scope of support without increasing the testing costs and resources necessary for each Linux distribution.
“The introduction of ELValidated marks one of OpenELA’s initial goals: to set the standard for Enterprise Linux distributions and give users full confidence in their choice of a distribution,” said Greg Marsden, senior vice president of Linux development, Oracle and member of the board, OpenELA. “Although we all strive to ensure our Enterprise Linux systems are compatible, ELValidated lets us really prove that, to ourselves (as we build the platforms) and to our users (where the compatibility really matters). ELValidated helps address those challenges by providing a common standard that verifies application compatibility with Enterprise Linux distributions.”
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