[COLUG] Companies that support a custom distribution

[Pat Collins]

On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 11:28:41 -0400 (EDT), R P Herrold <herrold at owlriver.com>
wrote :

> On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Jeff Frontz wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone heard of any company that can, given a list of 
> > packages/RPMs/whatever, create a distribution and provide 
> > some amount of support for it (perhaps along the lines of 
> > monitoring CERT, etc., looking for the intersection of any 
> > critical bug reports with said list of packages, applying 
> > fixes/updates, and performing a modicum of testing on the 
> > result)?
> 
> Well, of course, this is what I do through Owl River Company, 
> all day every day, with CentOS, as one of its founders, as its 
> security point of contact, and with my work for many years as 
> the editor of the RPM web presence.
> 
> As to spinning and maintaining a custom distribution, I have 
> done these for many years for customers:
>     http://www.owlriver.com/support/wings/
> 
> and also to support non-mainstream processor arches.  Reduced 
> package count line, and custom LTSP distributions for customer 
> needs, and then 'spike' packagings of 'hard to solve' package 
> groups -- bioinformatics, complex perl applications, are well 
> reflected at:
>     http://www.owlriver.com/projects/ORC/
> 

Are you now going to ban yourself for a commercial post?

Pat