Re: Linux deployment: never a better time

2012-05-11 Thread David C.
FYI: Followup thread started in the LC Linux forum. :) Dave C. (doc) On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Peter Alcibiades wrote: > >> Perhaps the thing that Linux can offer a developer which is unique is the >> ability to package an app into a turnkey appliance.  Any sort of

Re: Linux deployment: never a better time

2012-05-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Alcibiades wrote: Perhaps the thing that Linux can offer a developer which is unique is the ability to package an app into a turnkey appliance. Any sort of appliance running on general purpose minimalist hardware, and running something like Slitaz or a stripped down Debian version, and it

Re: Linux deployment: never a better time

2012-05-10 Thread Peter Alcibiades
kde and all of their works, and boot time is super fast and its super responsive. You can get even faster on even less hardware running slitaz. Worth a thought. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Linux-deployment-never-a-better-time-tp4623849p4624591

Linux deployment: never a better time

2012-05-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
This got a bit long (not the first time with my posts here) - sorry about that, but if you can spare a moment to read it I hope you'll find it rewarding: I just got back from attending the first two days of the Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS), held in Oakland this time. As you may know, Ubunt