1. Building and maintaining custom Debian- and RPM-based Linux platforms
WhenitcomestoLinux,onesizedoesn’tfitall.ProgenybuildsandmaintainscustomLinuxplat-
formstailoredtotheuniquespecificationsofourcustomersinthecommunicationsequipment,
server appliance, and other markets. We deliver custom Linux platforms at a lower price and
withhigherqualitystandardsthanplatformsthatourcustomerscancreatein-house.Ourcustom-
ers accelerate time to market and gain better control over their product roadmaps. Some
examples of recent custom platform projects:
Communications equipment vendors
· Carrier-grade Linux platform for next-generation network infrastructure solution (HP)
· Telco carrier-grade Linux platform (leading telco signaling and switching provider)
Server appliance vendors
· Application security gateway platform (next-generation SSLVPN vendor)
· Server appliance market platform (shipping a WAP networking company’s controller
application as an appliance)
· Storage market (OEM builder of network-attached storage systems)
High-performance technical computing, research and development
· High-performance technical computing platform (major OEM)
· Linux development environment (HP)
· High-performance cluster computing (Gelato Consortium)
· Linux-based research platform (Princeton University)
A custom Linux platform doesnʼt have to be painful
When Progeny creates, migrates, customizes, and/or maintains your custom Linux platform,
you lose the headache of doing it in-house, and gain major advantages:
· Lower costs
· Faster time to market
· Greater control over your platform roadmap
· Highly optimized and better integrated platform
· Flexible pricing model
· Direct access to Progeny engineers
Supporting users of legacy Red Hat
®
Linux
®
distributions
Many organizations have extensively customized and built critical infrastructure on top
of legacy Red Hat®
Linux®
products and need to maintain these distributions beyond the
vendor’s end-of-life schedule. Progeny Transition Service (PTS) provides subscribers with
security updates for Red Hat®
Linux®
7.2, 7.3, 8.0, and 9. This service provides subscribers
withadditionaltimetodevelopandimplementtheirplatformmigrationplans,whileknowing
that their platforms remain secure. Visit http://transition.progeny.com for more information
and to subscribe.
Platform Services
Products and Services
Security patches for legacy platforms.
Custom component integration. Platform
creation, maintenance, customization,
migration. With more than a decade of
experience building Linux solutions,
Progeny is the leading independent provider
of Linux platform technology.
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Why choose
Progeny?

2. Progeny relies on a range of open source and internal technologies, as well as the expertise
ofouremployeesandourrelationshipwiththeopensourcecommunity,todeliverhigh-quality
Linux platforms and security patches to our customers.
A key element of Progeny’s Platform Services is a componentized Linux architecture that
allows developers to assemble customized Linux distributions by selecting the components
or features they need, rather than working with hundreds of packages. The core component
is an LSB 1.3–certified Linux runtime. Componentized Linux lets developers take advantage
of the openness of Linux while better managing its complexity. Aportion of Componentized
Linux is open to the community, while Progeny maintains stable components and develops
advanced technologies for use with our customer’s platforms.
Progeny’s Linux Platform Manager tool suite administers and automates much of our
platform-managementprocess.Featuresincludesecuritypatchmanagementfacilities,version
control tools, and auditing capabilities.
TheplatformisdeliveredviaAPTrepositories.Progenyaggressivelymanagesthecustomer’s
platform components, testing and incorporating available industry updates and security
patches with our Linux Platform Manager tool suite.
Progeny can assist you with a wide range of Linux platform needs. We tailor your Linux
platformtoyourexactspecifications,ensuringoptimalperformanceandintegration.Progeny’s
Linux experts can help with specialized platform migration; custom component integration;
and platform creation, maintenance, and customization.
Progeny also maintains close relationships with the open source community and hosts a
number of open source, community-based projects at http://componentizedlinux.org:
· Progeny Componentized Linux is a templating infrastructure that allows distributions to
· be built at a feature level, rather than at source or package levels.
· Our port of Red Hat’s Anaconda to Debian brings the familiar installation experience of
· Anaconda to the rest of the Linux world.
· Progeny has achieved Linux Standard Base (LSB) 1.3 certification of a Debian sarge-based
· runtime–the only Debian-based distribution to achieve LSB certification.
· Discover is a set of libraries and utilities for gathering and reporting information about a
· system’s hardware.
Progeny
Componentized Linux
Linux
Platform Manager
Expertise
Technology and Expertise
Progeny is the leading independent
provider of Linux platform technology.
With more than a decade of experience
building Linux solutions, Progeny’s
Linux experts pioneered a number of
the technologies and best practices
that shape the Linux landscape today.
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fax 317·578·8920
info@progeny.com
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