Christopher Blizzard: “One of our larger technical objectives – as I’ve said – is to integrate with as much software as possible. This means that when possible we’re a configuration store for every application on a system. Every user pref. Every service on your machine can store its configuration in one of these servers. Have you ever had the vision of dropping a machine on a network and having it come up, self-install, and just start working?”
Beautiful.
Mr. Blizzard sure dances around what is and isn’t open source to Red Hat.
The cues are subtle, but they clearly want to move it into their proprietary offerings after they’ve gotten enough free help. Wait, that sounds like Fedora Core…..
I’m not an expert in these things, but is it a huge project to build their sources as a Debian binary/package?
See: Services, Roles and Xen
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2005-June/msg00158.html
The point being is that if your storing configuration details for each in a single generalized config file, the remote host of the config file could be any type of server that you can point a URI at. ftp,tftp,nfs,https. etc.
Michael, have you gone through the build instructions ?? It doesn’t seem that the thing is properly organised. There is no install target in the makefile.
I would wait for a couple of weeks to let the people clean up the thing a bit, and simplify the build procedure.
Everytime I read something interesting about Red Hat I vow to install the next release of Fedora Core and check it out.
Then I remember they chose Yum over Apt, and all that implies. I shake my head and go back to what I was reading.
Perhaps Progeny could facilitate software to enable easy integration of LDAP and debconf using debconf’s LDAP driver. There are a lot of pieces out there, but not a lot of tools to help us integrate and manage them.
Ryan,
Interesting thought. I’ll think more about it.
-ian