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As someone shipping proprietary applications on Linux, the lack of binary compat is still not fun at all. In a previous gig, we ended up with 20 odd build slaves ({x86, x86_64} * Common RHEL, Ubuntu, Debian), and making binaries for each, rather than trying to make LSB based binaries.

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What kind of problems did you have with trying to make common binaries? The old wisdom is that you can make it work by building against an old enough glibc (and maybe other conservative deps like base X libs) and then ship other libraries along with your binary.

Maybe this will help you: http://phusion.github.io/holy-build-box/

I was very excited until I saw: "Supporting graphical applications such as those based on GTK, Qt, SDL, OpenGL etc is outside the scope of this project."

xdg-app by GNOME solves this problem

https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/SandboxedApps

It's already in a working state - you can try running GIMP nightlies

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