Comments on: A word about Intel’s Moblin and Fedora http://iquaid.org/2008/07/25/a-word-about-intels-moblin-and-fedora/ ... the four laws of humanity ... Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:28:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Dirk http://iquaid.org/2008/07/25/a-word-about-intels-moblin-and-fedora/#comment-2398 Dirk Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:46:48 +0000 http://iquaid.org/?p=124#comment-2398 We'll contribute all of our changes back upstream - and given just how many people we have working on this, I expect this to be quite a bit. Right now we are very busy getting ready to open everything up to the community; give us a couple more weeks or so and you'll see :-) We’ll contribute all of our changes back upstream - and given just how many people we have working on this, I expect this to be quite a bit. Right now we are very busy getting ready to open everything up to the community; give us a couple more weeks or so and you’ll see :-)

]]> By: Christoffer http://iquaid.org/2008/07/25/a-word-about-intels-moblin-and-fedora/#comment-2388 Christoffer Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:27:21 +0000 http://iquaid.org/?p=124#comment-2388 Glad you love open source, Dirk. :) What will your contributions to Fedora (and upstream) mostly look like? Glad you love open source, Dirk. :)

What will your contributions to Fedora (and upstream) mostly look like?

]]> By: quaid http://iquaid.org/2008/07/25/a-word-about-intels-moblin-and-fedora/#comment-2387 quaid Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:34:14 +0000 http://iquaid.org/?p=124#comment-2387 Exactly, Dirk, it's fantastic that you can mix and match for your needs. It also helps keep us on our toes about what our tools can and cannot do, etc. Open source + competition is a great combination. Exactly, Dirk, it’s fantastic that you can mix and match for your needs. It also helps keep us on our toes about what our tools can and cannot do, etc. Open source + competition is a great combination.

]]> By: Dirk http://iquaid.org/2008/07/25/a-word-about-intels-moblin-and-fedora/#comment-2383 Dirk Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:57:46 +0000 http://iquaid.org/?p=124#comment-2383 One important feature that I thought that I mentioned was the ability to track the license of a package as part of the spec file. That's much easier done with RPM than with DEB. The other big reason was the build system. What we like about OBS is that it allows us distributed builds, automated dependencies with smart partial re-builds, mostly automated boot-strapping, lots of easy configuration options and good integration into the way we want to maintain our sources and how we want to do authentication across hosts. We looked at Koji but found that on several of these issues it didn't meet our needs - so we settled on starting from the Fedora packages, but using OBS. I love open source. Can you imagine doing something like this in the proprietary world? One important feature that I thought that I mentioned was the ability to track the license of a package as part of the spec file. That’s much easier done with RPM than with DEB.

The other big reason was the build system. What we like about OBS is that it allows us distributed builds, automated dependencies with smart partial re-builds, mostly automated boot-strapping, lots of easy configuration options and good integration into the way we want to maintain our sources and how we want to do authentication across hosts.

We looked at Koji but found that on several of these issues it didn’t meet our needs - so we settled on starting from the Fedora packages, but using OBS.

I love open source. Can you imagine doing something like this in the proprietary world?

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