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."

Comments

SlashAds

[Dr. Mojura]

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.

Re:SlashAds

[Randolpho]

Why is it a problem when new technologies or versions of products are listed on Slasdot? It's news, regardless of who submits the article, and what's more, it benefits all. It gives Slashdot content (which it *technically* needs, dispite having content coming out the ears ;)), it gives us, the readers, info on a new product/technology, and it gives the owner of the technology some product awareness ("free advertising").

When you read, say, Computer Shopper, do you complain when they run an article about the latest technology, explaining what it is, who the company is, etc? Why would you complain about Slashdot doing the same? Do you honestly think that the editors of Computer Shopper aren't approached by the owners of this new technology in the hopes that they can get some product awareness? Hell, when we launched our big website a couple of months ago, we approached the local newspaper and got them to do a big story about it!

'taint nothin' wrong wit' dat. :)

Re:Shameless Plug

[jptechnical]

I think the point was to build awareness

from the building-the-interest dept.

and aid in making linux distributions more commonplace and easy to configure. I have installed and configured just about all every distro out there and still find something lacking. If I can get it modularized or configged as the post describes it may put me over the hurdles I have been facing. And as new features and ease of setup issues are resolved the platform becomes more powerful and usable by all. Isn't this the point of Open Source projects?

Re:Shameless Plug

[RevAaron]

I agree- I think this product has a good potential to provide some thing fairly important than Linux has been missing.

At first, I thought that perhaps it shouldn't have been posted to Slashdot, at least not until the product is ready to ship/buy/download/use. But then again, Slashdot posts stories about interesting OSS/FS projects when they're in a larval stage, provided they're interesting. I see this as about the same thing, except it looks like this LPM software already exists to an extent- you just can't get it yet.

Is This News Or A Press Release?

[DoctorMabuse]

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.

Not stable enough?

[Jellybob]

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

Re:Security

[Carewolf]

????

Ehmm... That's what signatures are for. You use a signature to detect whether it really comes from Debian.You dont need to encrypt the signature for this to work, all you need is a public/private key-system.

Re:Pick A Product

[ndogg]

Progeny's main purpose is to render services and support to its customers, first and foremost, not to release yet another Linux distribution like all the other Linux companies out there.