Making Linux Binaries Simple: Automate 'Em
If Linux doesn't change its attitude about prepackaged binary (read: closed source) software anytime soon, here's a suggestion: a generic software deployment system for Linux binaries.
The idea came about when talking with a couple of commercial software vendors, all of whom had Linux products and who all tacitly admitted that one of the biggest problems with making Linux editions of anything is supporting each individual distribution. You either have to pick a distro and stick with it, build binaries for every major distro and ever major revision of each distro, or just give up and make your app open source.
My idea: Create a generic Linux software-building system. It uses virtual machines and automated build scripts to take a single source package, build it across all the major Linuxes at once (Red Hat, Debian, SUSE, plus whatever else you want to add), and generate reports for each.
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