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Founded in March 2000, Progeny Linux Systems develops Linux-based software and services for networking computing environments. Progeny Componentized Linux is a new kind of Linux "distribution", built bottom-up as a set of interchangeable parts that closely track their counterpart "upstream" open-source projects, rather than top-down as a monolithic, difficult-to-change whole. By being constructed in this fashion, the componentized Linux is easier to customise and modify than traditional Linux distributions.
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2005-06-02 |
Development Release: Progeny Debian 3.0 Preview 2 |
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The second preview release of Progeny Debian 3.0 Developer Edition is now available for testing: "Progeny Debian 3.0 Developer Edition PR2 has been released. Progeny Debian 3.0 Developer Edition is an example distribution based on Componentized Linux. It is essentially a snapshot of Debian sarge as of May 2005 that includes an easy-to-use, graphical installer and a fully integrated GNOME desktop environment." Its features include: LSB 3.0 compatible runtime with extensions, Linux 2.6 with integrated NVIDIA graphics drivers, Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) 1.4, Mono 1.0, complete desktop environment including XFree86 4.3 and GNOME 2.8. See the release announcement and release notes for more information. Download (MD5): pd3de-pr2-1.iso (624MB) and pd3de-pr2-2.iso (297MB).
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2005-04-29 |
Development Release: Progeny Debian 3.0 Preview 1 |
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The first preview release of Progeny Debian 3.0 Developer Edition is now available for testing: "I'm pleased to announce that Progeny Debian 3.0 Developer Edition, Preview Release 1, has been released. This release has mostly been a shakedown for the new Platform Development Kit, and so there are not very many changes. We are mostly up to date with Debian sarge as of April 18. As part of this migration, the repository layout has changed; all the components are now in one big 'main' apt component, and there are no comps.xml fragments. We are planning to continue support for components maintained with comp-get and comp2repo until we have a better solution, however, so external components should still work." See the release announcement and release notes for more details. Download: pd3de-pr1-1.iso (656MB) and pd3de-pr1-2.iso (268MB).
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2005-04-17 |
Componentized Linux: Roadmap and Future Plans |
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For those who aren't familiar with Componentized Linux, it is a highly customizable Linux distribution that can be used to build customized versions of Progeny. "Componentized Linux will become a fully supported Progeny product. This note is meant to serve as a roadmap for the product and an overview of what's coming and when it should be here... In summary, the next version of CL Core will be version 3.0 and is scheduled for release in July 2005. Leading up to the final release, we are planning to make four "preview releases" on the following schedule..." Please see the roadmap for the latest version.
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2005-03-02 |
Development Release: Progeny Debian 2.0 RC2 |
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The second release candidate of Progeny Debian 2.0, Developer Edition, has been released: "We have just released Release Candidate 2 of Progeny Debian 2.0, Developer Edition. Some highlights: crashes in Anaconda that report problems with 'adbox' are now fixed; serial ATA is now supported.; the comp-get tool for managing components has been overhauled, and should work well, but because of the problems with the RC1 version of comp-get, people upgrading from RC1 are encouraged to use the upgrade instructions in the release notes; many updates from Debian sarge; the Eclipse and Tomcat components have been removed, as the versions available in Debian are old." More information in the release announcement and release notes. Download: pd2de-rc2-1.iso (653MB) and pd2de-rc2-2.iso (253MB).
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2004-11-10 |
Development Release: Progeny Debian 2.0 RC1 |
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This is the first release candidate of Progeny Debian 2.0, Developer Edition: "Progeny Debian 2.0 DE RC1 has been released. Progeny Debian 2.0 DE aims to provide an unmatched 'out of the box' environment for software developers building applications for the Java, Mono/.NET and LAMP platforms. Progeny Debian 2.0 DE also serves as a showcase for Componentized Linux and includes all CL technologies. As such, it is also an excellent development platform for builders of CL-based custom distributions. Changes since Beta 2: all components updated to upstream; GNOME component updated to version 2.8, and Evolution component updated to version 2.0; Linux 2.6 component updated to Linux 2.6.8; GIMP 2.0 component now included...." Read the announcement and release notes for further details. Download: pd2de-rc1-bin1.iso (647MB) and pd2de-rc1-bin2.iso (600MB).
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2004-09-14 |
Development Release: Progeny Debian 2.0 Beta 2 |
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The second beta release of Progeny Debian 2.0, Developer Edition, is now available. From the release notes: "Welcome to the second beta of Progeny Debian 2.0 Developer Edition. Progeny Debian 2.0 is the continuation of the popular commercial product published by Progeny in 2001 and is based on Progeny Componentized Linux. Beta 2 incorporates numerous changes and improvements from Beta 1. Highlights: all components updated to upstream as of 9/8/2004; Anaconda for Debian updated to Fedora Core 2 code base; all components now derived from Sarge *except* Eclipse 2.1, Evolution 1.5; Mono; Mozilla 1.7 and Mozilla Firefox 0.9; Linux 2.6 component updated to Linux 2.6.7 and pre-compiled NVIDIA drivers supplied...." Download from here: pd2de-1.iso (651MB) and pd2de-2.iso (509MB).
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2004-07-18 |
Toward Progeny Debian 2.0 |
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Orange Crate has published an interview with with Jeff Licquia and Jolene Watkins of Progeny about the upcoming Progeny Debian 2.0 and other topics: "We invite developers to try out the Progeny Debian 2.0 Developer Edition. We also welcome feedback on Componentized Linux, Anaconda for Debian and our other projects from people building custom distributions. There are already a number of organizations and local/regional governments (e.g. Extremadura and Valencia, Spain) that are successfully using Componentized Linux to build and maintain custom distributions." Read the rest of the interview here.
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2004-07-13 |
Development Release: Progeny Debian 2.0 Beta 1 |
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The beta release of Progeny Debian 2.0 Developer Edition is now available. "This version of Progeny Debian was built using the new Anaconda for Debian, based on Anaconda from Fedora Core 2, and contains many updates to components from Debian's current testing distribution ("sarge")." This is the second snapshot of Progeny Debian 2.0 Developer Edition and it contains three images, pd2de-1.iso (644MB) and pd2de-2.iso (647MB) for standard installation, and pd2de-3.iso (310MB) for the source codes. This robust Debian developer distribution was created through Progeny's Componentized Linux architecture. The full announcement.
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2004-04-14 |
Development Release: Progeny Debian 2.0 Alpha 1 |
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Progeny has released an alpha version of Progeny Debian 2.0, Developer Edition, as part of Progeny Componentized Linux: "I am happy to announce the release of a sample application of Componentized Linux: Progeny Debian 2.0, Developer Edition. This is an early alpha release. Please read the release notes before installing Progeny Debian. In addition to the release notes, a problem was found very late in testing in the OpenOffice.org component that interferes with some of GNOME's installation. To fix it, either deselect OpenOffice.org in the custom component screen when installing, or log in as root on the newly installed system and run "dpkg --pending --configure". This problem will be fixed in future versions of Progeny Debian." Read the rest of the announcement and the release notes. Download: pd2de-bin-1.iso (600MB).
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