Linux a la Carte

Linux a la Carte

Posted Mar 11, 2004 10:18 UTC (Thu) by brouhaha (subscriber, #1698)
Parent article: Linux a la Carte

I still don't understand how Progeny's new Componentized Linux is any different than any other package-based Linux. What does it do for me that Fedora, Debian, Mandrake, or Suse don't already do? It seems to me that with each of those, I can pick and choose what packages to install, which seems to be the benefit that Progeny is claiming. Is a Progeny "component" something different than a package?

Is this just a "marketing breakthrough", or what?

I don't mean any offense to Progeny or Ian Murdock, but if there is truly some technical advantage here, they have not succeeded in explaining it.

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