BitNami makes it easy for mom & semi-geeks to use OSS
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| The company is best known for its BitRock InstallBuilder cross-platform
| product that competes with the likes of InstallShield. While the product
| itself is not OSS, BitRock offers open source projects free licenses to the
| product.
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| While everything BitRock does is closed-source in nature, (and pays the
| bills), the company has introduced BitNami to further the use of OSS as a
| community outreach service. BitRock hopes that BitNami will become a leading
| destination for end users and the average developer that wants an OSS product
| or an OSS development environment respectively, but doesn't want to hassle
| with dependencies etc. Since December 2007, BitNami has served up over
| 100,000 downloads of popular OSS Stacks. BitRock plans to open up the site so
| anyone can build and host their own OSS stack.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2008/04/bitnami_makes_i.html
Related:
Installing a modern Linux distribution
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| A modern Linux install should take no more than forty-five minutes for the
| initial install and maybe an hours worth of tweaking to get the missing bits
| running the way the user wants this may take longer with more complected
| setups like using ATI or NVIDIA cards with Compiz.
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http://www.raiden.net/?cat=2&aid=393
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