Re: Debian as Software Appliance

2011-10-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > Thanks for your mail though, it was interesting to learn some more about > the use-cases for Emdebian, a blog post about that would be good. Folks who though Neil's mail were interesting might like to view his recent blog post on the topic: htt

Re: Debian as Software Appliance

2011-09-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Neil Williams wrote: > Just one little proviso on that: Plenty of devices which could use > Debian and many that already do use Debian provide absolutely no > connectivity outside the device and most of those are single-user > machines. ... > It is always worth rem

Re: Debian as Software Appliance

2011-09-17 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 15:53:04 +0800 Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 4:39 AM, zferentz wrote: > > > My company considering to ship our (commercial) product on top of a > > Linux software appliance . One of the suggestions was to use Linux > > Debian as a core . > > My questions are pret

Re: Debian as Software Appliance

2011-09-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 4:39 AM, zferentz wrote: > My company considering to ship our (commercial) product on top of a > Linux software appliance . One of the suggestions was to use Linux > Debian as a core . > My questions are pretty basic : Others have answered this, but I would like to point o

Re: Debian as Software Appliance

2011-09-16 Thread Zvi Fer
Thank you very much for your response. zvika On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Hi, > > Le jeudi 15 septembre 2011 à 13:39 -0700, zferentz a écrit : > > My company considering to ship our (commercial) product on top of a > > Linux software appliance . One of the sugg

Re: Debian as Software Appliance

2011-09-16 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 09/15/2011 11:37 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> 2. we plan to use LDAP and Apache , are there any restrictions that we >> shall be aware of ? > > No. Well, I'd say it depends. If you link against libraries which are shipped with Apache/OpenLDAP, you have to look at the licenses If you just

Re: Debian as Software Appliance

2011-09-15 Thread Igor Pashev
I believe there is no problem. One can run any software on top of Debian. Just be careful on non-Debian specific cases such as linking to GPL-only libs, etc. I strongly recommend Debian as a basis and as a demonstration of the power of free software ;-) 16.09.2011 00:39, zferentz пишет: > Greet

Re: Debian as Software Appliance

2011-09-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Hi, Le jeudi 15 septembre 2011 à 13:39 -0700, zferentz a écrit : > My company considering to ship our (commercial) product on top of a > Linux software appliance . One of the suggestions was to use Linux > Debian as a core . Thanks for your interest. I think you will find Debian to be very conve

Debian as Software Appliance

2011-09-15 Thread zferentz
Greetings, I'm not sure if this is the right place, so i hope that you can help me or point me to the right location . My company considering to ship our (commercial) product on top of a Linux software appliance . One of the suggestions was to use Linux Debian as a core . My questions are pretty b