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Progeny Debian Is No More

Posted by timothy on from the cryin'-shame dept.

Nickus writes: "According to this announcement on the Progeny homepage, development of their Progeny Debian has stopped and will no longer be available for sale after 15th of October. They will provide a migration path to the next release of Debian though."

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  1. Re:product, not company by Vagary · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So what's their business model now? Debian-specific consulting?

  2. Project NOW by DeadPrez · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The most intresting thing coming out of Progeny was Project NOW which earlier this year was cancelled. IMO, this was the killer app linux definately needed to stand head and shoulders above competitors, rather than continuing to compete based on (IMHO rather) trivial benchmark tests. I hope this some how allows Progeny to get back to working on NOW, which is the future for any corporate network OS, Linux, MS or otherwise.

    The Progeny distribution, while having a nicer install for Debian wasn't really impressive enough to ever catch on. I suppose some people will miss it but I am pretty sure all involved (Debian Project, Progeny, and end users) will all benefit from decision to end the Progeny distro and have all efforts be put directly into Debian.

  3. Re: The best APT frontend by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting
    The best APT frontend, is made by Conectiva, by Alfredo Kojima (of windowmaker fame), is called synaptic but isnt ported to Debian :( :( :(

    Maybe anyone?

  4. Re:Wow.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I also had an eye on it ... promising .. now we can hope Mandrake will finally shift to apt-get ... Mandrake&apt-get would be "the best" distro in game ...
    cmon lets this discuss this ;-)

    -shanti-