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Progeny Releases Linux Platform Manager
IanMurdock writes "Given your previous interest in Progeny, I thought you would be interested in our new Platform Services product direction and the release or our Linux Platform Manager tool. Briefly, Platform Services provides componentized versions of Red Hat and Debian, and Linux Platform Manager allows people to easily assemble these components into custom distributions. You can read more at http://www.progeny.com.
More information on our new direction can be found in the Platform Services whitepaper."
What is this, version 3 or 4 of 'This is what Progeny does'?
.technomancer
Is this important news to all of us, or just a way for Progeny to get some free advertising PR?
It's hard to keep the bias to a minimum when the story is submitted by the company.
"Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion." - Democritus
Slashdot needs a "Shameless Plug" tag to put on articles like this. Look at the submitters address. Slashdot is for news, not PR (unless they are getting paid for this story, in which case, I hope slashdot subscribers don't even get this story displayed to them).
BTW - What's up with all the Error 500's? Can't the Slashcode guys test the code before pushing it to the 'production' server (btw - these ARE the guys that complain about crashes in windows, then produce slashcode)?
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
Actually, they're not. "White papers" are something that the government publishes (http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_Parliament)
They claim to use APT. APT (as used in Debian) does not offer any security (neither package signatures are verified, nor can you use HTTPS for download).
Does anybody know if Progeny has resolved this problem, or just doesn't care?
I realize that there are some press releases that qualify as news, but this one doesn't. Progeny isn't advertising anything that is innovative, cutting edge, free or otherwise newsworthy. All they are announcing is a new way to separate you from your money.
Please, Slashdot, apply some form of editorial standard to this type of tripe.
Let's cut Ian some slack, after all he is the Ian in Debian
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"Given your previous interest in Progeny, I thought you would..."
:-)
It was just a matter of time... Slashdot has finally merged into one collective conscious. Maybe now we can take on Microsoft!
Laugh at stupidity: mod idiots +1 Funny.
God, I think I'm going to be fired...
Hmmm, anyone else find it kind of ironic that the "Linux Platform Company" shows their software demo being run on IE under Windows XP? /me thinks they need to do a little work on their desktops :P
A nice ultra-localized distro would be a good project for a high school (or college, or middle school).
...
Similar to the way C. Knopper includes slides from his talks and some (interesting) Free Software-oriented music on Knoppix, such a distro might include
- a "yearbook" with photos of all students who want a photo in there and some fun snapshots
- a selection or two (as oggs) from the school jazz band, choral groups, orchestra, student-formed rock bands, whatever
- a school directory. When I switched schools from one with a directory (the students lived across a much larger geographic area at that one) to one which did not, I frequently missed having a directory. Even if it's just "long term contact info to the best of your ability, as much as you care to volunteer" rather than a list of current local numbers.
- browser bookmarks which are useful to students (good research sites, etc.)
- history of the school to the degree that students are willing to research and prepare one
- archive of all the last year's school newspaper stories
- sports statistics and other (notable to someone) figures and noteworthy events. Maybe the physics club built a hovercraft out of vacuum cleaner parts -- include some photos, diagrams, and a HOWTO.
The exact things are going to vary by school, but this sort of thing would be much harder with Windows -- you might be able to make a big disc full of "multimedia stuff" but it would not be able to boot / run by itself.
timothy
jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5
make it sound like you are trading vendor lock in by an "evil distribution" with selling your soul to Progeny.
But this is really boring. I can't wait for Troll Tuesday/April fools day tomorrow.
Until then, I'm going to do some work.
A distro where you can select what gets installed. I'm not sure about other distros, but in SuSE, during the installation, just deslect everything, and select only those things which you need. Then everything that those programs depends on is also automatically installed. Easy as that. Plus, with SuSE, there's an automatic network installer, just as RedHat has one. So it sounds to me as if they're doing nothing but repackaging ideas that already exist and claiming them as their own. And as to the custom kernel stuff. That's what modules are for, so only the stuff that you need gets loaded.
And Real Admins dissassemble the generated machine code looking for backdoors!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
With the creation of Knoppix like distros, I too have
been looking into the useful possibilities for these.
At present my main desire is for a cd based linux
system that's designed for troubleshooting and fixing
Microsoft machines. Linux happens to be the fastest
and most flexible tool around for pc's and lets face it; Many of us may not like M$ but we get paid to fix it.
I for one like to work as smart and efficiently as
possible.
Your misfortune has brightened my day!
Kudos to you, Anonymous Idiot!
Is it just me, or is this picture pretty similar to Ximians logo?
:)
Just mirrored.
It actually thought that I saw a code monkey
This was the first Linux distro that I really liked. It was a nice Debian at a time that the real Debian was too much of a bear to install and configure for a newbie. I loved it, then they decided not to continue it. They had some half-arsed plan and method to 'update' the lovely Progeny to standard Debian that was coming soon forever. It was supposed to be elegant, it was not. Whatever, I loved Progeny Debian and was very disappointed that they did not find it worthwhile to continue development. I have invested my last bit of time and effort on anything that Progeny comes up with.
It looks like a man walking in front of a burning oil well.
I find the ptk.progeny.com website useful. This sounds like a similiar type of deal but for Linux instead of development tools.
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