rPath Creates Malleable, Serviceable Linux Distribution
The great thing about open source software is that it is so malleable. In the Linux space, you can grab a kernel, and bunch of systems and applications software, and throw it all together and make your own personal distribution. But, alas, if you do that, then you have to support it yourself. Your own knowledge of coding and projects has to be equivalent to that of a commercial Linux distributor, and you have to have time to keep your own system up to date. And if you have a problem, you have to rely on the kindness of colleagues and strangers.
This is simply not a palatable or practical option for enterprise computing, which is why the commercial Linux distributors emerged with business-class release schedules for the Linux stack and the expected installation and technical support that enterprises expect. But, as good as these commercial implementations of Linux are, they do not fulfill the true malleable nature that open source software has, which is one of its great benefits compared to proprietary and closed source software. Imagine, then, if you could have the best of both worlds. Imagine if you could build your own Linux distribution, all the way up to the systems and applications software stack, and punish someone else with grabbing the current source code from the open source projects, testing it, and integrating it with your solution.
This is what the founders of rPath have imagined, and what its rPath Linux and rBuilder tool do.
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