<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 9:17 PM, John Watlington <<a href="mailto:wad@laptop.org">wad@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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</div>rPath is certainly tempting, but it locks our customers into a<br>
proprietary set of tools for maintaining their servers. FOSS is one<br>
of the cornerstones of OLPC...</blockquote><div><br>I guess what I was suggesting was a discussion with the executives at rPath to see what the options were. Conary (their packaging system) is certainly FOSS and they may be willing to work on other FOSS things that could help out in areas of concern. <br>
</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Larger systems (NYC, Birmingham) are a different<br>
story, as their network configuration is radically different. We will<br>
probably fork builds to handle their case, or move to just supporting<br>
service packages.</blockquote><div><br>This certainly sounds good for a v1 product. Maybe going forward, the team will have the resources to broaden scope a bit. Just my 2 cents.<br></div></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>
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