This week at LWN: Building custom appliance distributions with rBuilder

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Aug 19, 2008 11:19 AM EDT
LWN.net; By Jonathan Corbet
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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?

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