On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Harish Pillay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought I should share this: > > http://thincrust.net/ > > It is a Red Hat emerging technologies project that compises a set of > tools and metadata which make it easier for anyone (ISVs, developers, > OEMS, etc) to create and deploy virtual appliances. >
Interesting. LWN also has an article on building custom appliances (using rBuilder): (http://lwn.net/Articles/292844/) (http://www.rpath.com/rbuilder/) ===== Building custom appliance distributions with rBuilder By Jonathan Corbet August 5, 2008 Linux distributions can be a pain. Users have to go through the whole process of installation, configuration, and updates, and, often, all they really want to do is to run a single application. The vendors of that application, meanwhile, feel the need to support as many distributions as possible, even though the actual system running underneath their code is nearly irrelevant. Wouldn't it be nice if users could simply get their desired application as an "appliance" which comes with all the necessary component parts nicely hidden inside? As it happens, rPath has been in the appliance business for a little while now. Recently, the company has made its appliance-building infrastructure available to free-software products in the form of rBuilder Online. In essence, rBuilder can be used to create and maintain a custom distribution oriented around the delivery of a specific application. The result is a "software appliance" which, in theory, makes the given application available in a self-contained, standalone distribution. [...] ===== -- Soh Kam Yung my Google Reader Shared links: (http://www.google.com/reader/shared/16851815156817689753) my Google Reader Shared SFAS links: (http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user/16851815156817689753/label/sfas) _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
