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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mailing lists: second only to man pages by ClosedSource · 2006-09-08 04:35 · Score: 0, Troll

"Linux gave us a huge jumpstart on development because of it's open nature and the information we've garnered from public mailing lists."

Sure, because everyone knows than non-OSS operating systems don't have any documentation that allows programmers to easily develop for it and certainly not anything as comphrensive, consise, and organized as what you find on a public mailing list.