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Note: The following is an excerpt from the official ISO catalog. It is provided here as a convenience and is not authoritative. Refer to the original document as the authoritative reference.

The Linux Standard Base (LSB) defines a system interface for compiled applications and a minimal environment for support of installation scripts. Its purpose is to enable a uniform industry standard environment for high-volume applications conforming to the LSB.

These specifications are composed of two basic parts: A common specification (“LSB-generic” or “generic LSB”), ISO/IEC 23360-1:2006, describing those parts of the interface that remain constant across all implementations of the LSB, and an architecture-specific part (“LSB-arch” or “archLSB”) describing the parts of the interface that vary by processor architecture. Together, the LSB-generic and the relevant architecture-specific parts of ISO/IEC 23360 for a single hardware architecture provide a complete interface specification for compiled application programs on systems that share a common hardware architecture.

ISO/IEC 23360-1:2006, the LSB-generic document, is used in conjunction with an architecture-specific part. Whenever a section of the LSB-generic specification is supplemented by architecture-specific information, the LSB-generic document includes a reference to the architecture part.

Note ISO/IEC 23360-1:2006 is undergoing revisions. It will be replaced by the following:

• ISO/IEC 23360-1:2006 Linux Standard Base (LSB) core specification 3.1 – Part 1: Generic specification
• ISO/IEC 23360-2:2006 Linux Standard Base (LSB) core specification 3.1 – Part 2: Specification for IA-32 architecture
• ISO/IEC 23360-3:2006 Linux Standard Base (LSB) core specification 3.1 – Part 3: Specification for IA-64 architecture
• ISO/IEC 23360-4:2006 Linux Standard Base (LSB) core specification 3.1 – Part 4: Specification for AMD64 architecture
• ISO/IEC 23360-5:2006 Linux Standard Base (LSB) core specification 3.1 – Part 5: Specification for PPC32 architecture
• ISO/IEC 23360-6:2006 Linux Standard Base (LSB) core specification 3.1 – Part 6: Specification for PPC64 architecture
• ISO/IEC 23360-7:2006 Linux Standard Base (LSB) core specification 3.1 – Part 7: Specification for S390 architecture
• ISO/IEC 23360-8:2006 Linux Standard Base (LSB) core specification 3.1 – Part 8: Specification for S390X architecture