OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/17820/Progeny_Linux_Shuts_Down Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:51:35 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Too Bad http://osnews.com/thread?236388 http://osnews.com/thread?236388 I used progeny's CL for years and it was a great product. It brought an easy installer and configuration tools and LSB to debian without losing authenticity. The DCC was a disaster. It's now practically dead and it killed CL with it. As Ian got busier, progeny went further down the drain. I ended up having to go to other distros (a few months of fedora, followed by over an year with arch). Its a sad story. He should have never started DCC. Tue, 01 May 2007 22:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sultanqasim) Comments was hot ;( http://osnews.com/thread?236404 http://osnews.com/thread?236404 so sad.. Progeny was so hot http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=359&sli... Tue, 01 May 2007 23:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (linuxbeta) Comments RE: Too Bad http://osnews.com/thread?236405 http://osnews.com/thread?236405 The DCC was a disaster. It's now practically dead and it killed CL with it. As Ian got busier, progeny went further down the drain.

It's rather like UserLinux as well. An awful lot of people who thought they could produce something for the enterprise out of Linux and pure open source software, but where the ideas never matched reality in any shape or form. Tue, 01 May 2007 23:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (segedunum) Comments a http://osnews.com/thread?236431 http://osnews.com/thread?236431 commercial distro bites the dust, just one in at least three I would expect in the next year or so...

I wonder how Ian managed to *birth* Debian and then move away from the ideals.

I thank him for what he created. I do not understand how you move away and become so critical of such a great ideal. Wed, 02 May 2007 00:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (deanlinkous) Comments hu? http://osnews.com/thread?236494 http://osnews.com/thread?236494 It's too dramatic there remain only 3000 linux distro... Wed, 02 May 2007 06:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Duffman) Comments RE: was hot ;( http://osnews.com/thread?236516 http://osnews.com/thread?236516 Thanks for the shot of GNOME :/

There's still nine billion other distros, so this is hardly news. Wed, 02 May 2007 09:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (PJBonoVox) Comments RE: hu? http://osnews.com/thread?236527 http://osnews.com/thread?236527 Progeny was a lot more than just a distro. In fact in its later years it didn't even provide a community distro anymore. It developed custom distros for specific markets and applications. In addition to that they worked on developing some really incredible bits of software that unfortunately never were allowed to come to full fruition.

I have friends who worked at Progeny and I feel for there loss. They *had* a great company, it's sad it lost its way like it did. Wed, 02 May 2007 10:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (superbenk) Comments so sad http://osnews.com/thread?236530 http://osnews.com/thread?236530 I still have a fully working progeny as vmware image (but with its own ip as one of my "small" servers) which I installed so long ago I can't even remember. Now I started it up just to remember the feeling and I have to say I'm sad to see it disappear. It had a very friendly feeling, easy to install, easy to maintain, never caused me any problems whatsoever - I haven't used it recently, but there were times when I used it on a daily basis for months in a row.

So long, and thanks for all the fish. Wed, 02 May 2007 10:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (l3v1) Comments RE: a http://osnews.com/thread?236550 http://osnews.com/thread?236550
deanlinkous: I wonder how Ian managed to *birth* Debian and then move away from the ideals.

I thank him for what he created. I do not understand how you move away and become so critical of such a great ideal.


Considering Ian Murdocks current stance on the Debian idea and community I'd say we not only should wonder but also be grateful that he left Debian. Wed, 02 May 2007 12:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (B. Janssen) Comments RE: a http://osnews.com/thread?236590 http://osnews.com/thread?236590 He did a lot for modern distro's, most now follow is idea's...

He was never for the community process currently in place with Debian though, he was only ever interested in the technological side of Debian.

He thought Componentized Linux could work, but he didn't have the best foundation for that (I believe the rPath approach is superior).

He gets too much credit in many ways, what Debian is today is not a reflection of him - I don't think he even lasted long enough for the current iterations of dpkg and apt to be written. Wed, 02 May 2007 14:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Lunitik) Comments RE[2]: a http://osnews.com/thread?236693 http://osnews.com/thread?236693 Good point!

Thank you Ian for the *birth* of Debian as well as not hanging around to screw with it! ;) Wed, 02 May 2007 20:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (deanlinkous) Comments Another one bites the dust http://osnews.com/thread?236804 http://osnews.com/thread?236804 Another Linux distribution bites the dust. I am going to cry... LOL

Who is next? My prediction - Linspire/Freespire.Edited 2007-05-03 02:35 Thu, 03 May 2007 02:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Macintosh Sauce) Comments