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Progeny Releases Beta 1 of Progeny Debian 2.0
Jeff Licquia writes "We just released the first beta of Progeny Debian 2.0, Developer Edition. This is intended to be a showcase of our Componentized Linux project for building customized Linux distributions, something that's been talked about here before. We'd really like people to give this a whirl and report any problems they have. For more information, Progeny's Platform site has the details."
Someone mentioned that there is no torrent or download link. A very cursory examination of their website reveals an HTTP download location:
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http://archive.progeny.com/progeny/linux/iso-i3
Come one people, RTFA.
Ads? What ads?
That's exactly what gentoo gives you, and something that cannot be achieved without building from source given the current model of Unix software development - to keep things as simple as possible. In order to support assorted features without building from source, your software would have to be entirely modular and componentized. For example, you can add new functionality onto perl or apache without rebuilding the core software, because they both have a plugin architecture through the use of dynamic loading.
In other words, the operating system that does this is already here, and it's called gentoo linux.
It's worth mentioning that you could use gentoo as the base for creating your own linux distributions, by changing the bootstrap script, including the system's definition of what is built not only during the bootstrap process, but also during the initial "emerge system". Once you have the files, you can just zap them all up into a tarball, or package them in some other way. You can install (and maintain!) the core of the system using portage, through some other tool if you don't like its interface, and use some other package format and an independent collection of libraries and install everything else from packages if you wanted. So gentoo also (to my mind) provides you the modular distribution creation kit as well.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
yes:
http://platform.progeny.com/apt/index.html
There is also Rocklinux.
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Well, come get me next, because I use -O2. It's necessary on both MIPS and Athlon, O3 is known to cause errors on both architectures with GCC (MIPS more than Athlon.) I don't know if this applies to x86-64 or not.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
OTOH, here's an article from 4 years ago about Progeny. It looks like the vision was the same then, but they haven't gotten very far.
There don't seem to be any torrents or mirrors for this stuff, alas.
The Progney folks are sitting on a giant pipe. I doubt you'll be able to floor them.
Why choose between Gentoo and Anaconda when now you can have both: http://gentoo.vidalinux.com/?q=node/view/35
Read these two mailing-list postings from Ian explaining it somewhat more. But really, the Progeny guys have been really bad at actually explaining exactly what "Componentized Linux" is all about. Even though it sounds cool.
Please alter my pants as fashion dictates.
Check it out here or just grab the torrent file here.