Progeny & Componentization

[Mike Fedyk]

http://www.orangecrate.com/article.php?sid=757

This sounds like a direction Fedora is already headed in, but now it can 
be termed "componentization"...

*Chuck Talk*: I know that Progeny has developed the idea of 
componentized Linux for developers to build their Linux environment 
"from the bottom-up", can you explain what that means in terms of 
building a Linux distribution?

*Jeff Licquia*: In the past, people building custom Linux distributions 
have generally started with a standard distribution, stripped out the 
parts they don't need, and added or altered the features that they need. 
This results in a fork, with all that forking entails; the group doing 
the distribution now has to get into the Linux distribution business, 
spending lots of resources on things that are peripheral to the group's 
main purpose.

Componentized Linux is a different way to build custom Linux 
distributions. People pick and choose the standard components they need, 
build their own components for features that they need that aren't yet 
available, and put it all together to produce a complete distribution. 
In doing so, the work to maintain the core Linux components is shared 
among several groups of people with similar goals, with each group 
focusing on the part of the puzzle that they do best.