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[mike neuliep]

From: James Miller <jamtat at mailsnare.net>
Sent: Oct 27, 2003 12:06 PM
To: The main mailing list of the RULE project <rule-list at nongnu.org>
Subject: Re:  [RULE] Reflections on a Debianized RULE (or RULE'ized Debian?)

Well, maybe all this just got easier?  Maybe miniconda or even slinky can be made to work just as 
well for Debian as it does for RH/Fedora?  News item from
http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1067056799.html

Ars Technica Newsdesk

Progeny Brings Red Hat and Debian Closer Together

Posted 10/24/2003 @ 11:39 PM, by Matt Woodward

On Friday afternoon, Ian Murdock, the founder of the Debian GNU/Linux project and co-founder of 
Progeny, announced a status update of his company's Debian work. Murdock made two very important 
announcements: the porting of Red Hat's Anaconda installer tool to Debian, and a modification of 
Debian's APT package tool which will allow it to use both RedHat and Debian packages. The first 
announcement is most relevant to Debian users, who have long complained about Debian's "archaic" 
installer. Several "easy to install" Debian variants have been created over the years; none of them 
has been commercially successful. Progeny Linux was one of these variants. Despite its excellent 
installer, Progeny's distribution suffered the same fate as many of the other commercial Debian 
projects. The company itself lived on, without much visibility, until today's announcement:

    We have ported Red Hat's Anaconda installer to Debian; essentially, we replaced calls to RPM 
with calls to APT, and replaced Red Hat-specific configuration hooks with calls into the configlets 
and debconf. We have also written a tool called PickAx that facilitates the creation of 
Anaconda-based Debian installation CD sets. We are also working with various parties to add/merge 
RPM support into the mainline APT, to allow Debian- and RPM-based distributions to be managed using 
a single APT codebase, and possibly even to allow Debian and RPM packages to coexist side by side.
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