How Do You Manage a Product Based on Linux?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday September 8, 2006 @12:55AM from the penguins-in-your-products dept.

Ryan writes "Following my advice, my company has decided to base it's new appliance on Linux. So far, it's worked out great. Linux gave us a huge jumpstart on development because of it's open nature and the information we've garnered from public mailing lists. We've added software, modified startup files, and have built our own kernel. Now the question is: How do you manage it all? Do you put it all in CVS or Subversion? Do you use the distro's packaging system (we're using Debian)? What does your build system look like?"

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I don't understand the question by Anonymous Coward · 2006-09-08 01:08 · Score: 5, Insightful

You're building a whole new appliance, but your software engineers don't know how to manage a development process?

I mean... I'm not being nasty here, but you're in trouble, and I don't even know where anybody could start to give you advice. It would be one thing if you were looking for guidance on a regular small scale software project, but if you're jumping in feet first with a whole new large scale application and no idea how to guide the process...