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Progeny Debian Halts The NOW Project

Posted by Hemos on from the bad-econoomic-times dept.

nicedream writes "Debian Planet is reporting that Progeny is killing the NOW project. " A reader also submitted the actual e-mail from Ian Murdock ? . It appears that the current economic climate has had an adverse effect on Progeny - which is not surprising. Ian's also got some musings on the state of computing/networking, which outline some of the thoughts behind the NOW project.

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  1. Not surprising... by Brad+Wilson · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The market can't really stand the development of yet another OS right now. It's got some interesting design ideas, but it's all pretty much smoke and mirrors until we can see an actual working design. *shrug* I guess we'll just have to wait...

  2. The Value of Progeny by TellarHK · · Score: 4, Interesting
    About two days after the release of Progeny for download, I grabbed a copy. It immediately became my distro of choice, beating out Redhat, SuSE and Mandrake soundly. I really like the Debian package management, and apt-get is just wonderful. But the thing that impressed me most about Progeny was the simple, but still capable install process. I can get a machine up and running with Progeny quite a bit quicker than with my SuSE distro, and it's a lot less of a hassle to upgrade using the Debian packages.


    I really didn't even know what NOW was, until... well, now. But I think Progeny offers plenty of value even without something that ambitious on the horizon.

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  3. Question. Did anything come of it? by mcc · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Interesting. I have never heard of this "NOW" thing, but wish i had.

    The direction i would like to see this /. discussion take is this: So, what came out of NOW? How far did they get, and is it far enough that there's something interesting there for the hobbyist faction to take up and continue work on as a volunteer project? Is there any code written, are there any design documents that have been released..? Does Progeny's withdrawal from this project mean it is dead, or simply that work will not be continuing at the same sustained rate? If there are design docs out there, are they complete enough that semiprofessional volunteers could finish the project from here without buggering it up horribly?

    Just curious.

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  4. ok so OPEN SOURCE it by clarkie.mg · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Progeny, why not just put the source on your servers, have one person coordinating the project and see what happens ?

    Also if someone can explain me the differences between NOW and beowulf clustering.

    M.G.

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