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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. Pick A Product by technomancerX · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Ok, could Progeny maybe pick a product, finish it, release it, and market and support it?

    What is this, version 3 or 4 of 'This is what Progeny does'?

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    1. Re:Pick A Product by grub · · Score: 4, Funny


      What is this, version 3 or 4 of 'This is what Progeny does'?

      They're quite adept at putting out white papers! :)

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  2. Shameless Plug by FortKnox · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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)?

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  3. Security by Florian+Weimer · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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?

    1. 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.

  4. 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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  5. It's finally happened... by Dynastar454 · · Score: 4, Funny

    "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! :-)

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  6. Not stable enough? by Jellybob · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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