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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."

2 of 87 comments (clear)

  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: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.