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Progeny Releases Linux Platform Manager

Posted by Hemos on from the building-the-interest dept.

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."

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  1. Deb-Ian by bstadil · · Score: 5, Informative

    Let's cut Ian some slack, after all he is the Ian in Debian

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  2. Re:Shameless Plug by arvindn · · Score: 3, Informative
    Slashdot needs a "Shameless Plug" tag to put on articles like this. Look at the submitters address.

    Hey, the submitter is not claiming to be a third party.

    I thought you would be interested in our new Platform Services product direction (emphasis mine)

    Besides, this is Ian Murdock of Debian. Since he's a big name in the free software community, I have no problem with a shameless plug from him. If I guy who's gained a reputation by doing a lot of work uses his status to get some hits and some revenue, well its a nice way of rewarding him.

  3. Re:Security by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    What are you kidding me??? All debain .debs are signed and checked. As far as going over https what is the point? https is only needed to protect sensitive information going over the wire. Since all debian packages are Open Source and no information about the recipient is given https is not needed. There is no restrictions for a repository not being https, it is just that there is no need for the overhead of SSL so debian repositories don't use it.

  4. Re:Is This News Or A Press Release? by IanMurdock · · Score: 3, Informative

    As to whether or not this qualifies as news, our "downs" in late 2001 qualified as news, so I think it's only fair to qualify the "ups" as news too, don't you? The fact of the matter is that we have quietly done quite well for ourselves over the past year and a half. Given all that's gone on around us, I'm rather proud of what we've accomplished, and I'm ready to let the world in on it.

    As to whether or not what we're doing is innovative or cutting edge: Have you looked at what we are doing? What we are doing is nothing short of offering a fundamentally different way of looking at "Linux distributions": as platforms for building precisely tuned solutions as opposed to the one-size-fits-all products that traditional distributions give us. Sounds pretty innovative to me, but I will admit a bit of bias. :-)

  5. Re:Shameless Plug by IanMurdock · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, you can get it. This is a web application you subscribe to, not a product you can download. But it is available today.

  6. Re:Security by jdaily · · Score: 4, Informative

    Our (Progeny's) implementation of APT is reasonably secure.

    • We have SSL support, derived from a patch by Tomas Pospisek.
    • We have added authentication and authorization.
    • Debian's APT currently supports the signing of repositories.

    Regarding package signatures: that's more relevant to the package installation tools than to APT itself, but long ago, Progeny wrote and contributed to Debian debsigs, a tool for allowing GPG signatures to be embedded in packages.

  7. Re:Security by Florian+Weimer · · Score: 2, Informative

    What are you kidding me??? All debain .debs are signed and checked.

    Only the initial upload by the Debian developer is checked. Subsequent downloads from the mirror cascade by the users are not checked, and users have to trust the integrity of the cascade (and DNS, and their network connection, and so on).