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Merchandising Online Store

The OpenPKG project established a small OpenPKG Merchandising Online Store at CafePress where you can buy OpenPKG merchandising articles.

Please help us to bring the spirit of OpenPKG and Open Source Software technology to all parts of the globe by showing your OpenPKG affiliation with these products containing our official OpenPKG logo. The OpenPKG project receives a small percentage on the sales from the products, too.

Community Advocacy

Since OpenPKG became public in 2002, the worldwide community has steadily grown. As of August 2004 there are approximately 10.000 distinct customers based on regular analysis of package downloads and mailing list subscriptions. Some satisfied customers have given feedback, providing a personal Public Advocacy Statement (see feedback form) as shown here.
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OpenPKG has been tremendously helpful in our efforts to make Open Source Software available to the entire campus. Deployment of the OpenPKG infrastructure on a fleet of Sun Solaris machines has allowed our organization to migrate away from a convoluted, out of date, shared NFS directory to cleanly managed and easily upgraded package system. This is light years ahead of any vendor alternative from Sun. OpenPKG has proven itself time and time again as an excellent base for the Kolab email server. Nowhere else can one deploy such a rich set of applications, so consistently, across so many different platforms. The ability to move between different UNIX platforms and GNU/Linux distributions while maintaining a consistent, high quality, environment is an invaluable tool for any administrator. OpenPKG is a natural choice for any organization or Free Software project that need to support various applications on a plethora of UNIX Operating Systems. OpenPKG allows everyone to understand what is installed on a system and makes consequent use of the package sources. I would like to see every Unix-like system make use of this approach so that installation and upgrade of packages finally lose the aura of magic and adventure. We are moving all our internal and customer systems to OpenPKG which has simplified our development and support. Finally some decent package management for Unix and Linux. OpenPKG deals with all of the headaches so I don't have to. OpenPKG has brought new life to a somewhat deprecated version of FreeBSD I am running. It has managed to keep me up to date on all of the major services it provides without having to do a time consuming full system upgrade on a machine in a remote location. I was able to install and make OpenPKG completely functional from a remote terminal all in the course of a day (which included gazing through much of the documentation). One bastard meta-distribution from hell (BMDFH). The OpenPKG suite is absolutely fantastic! It lowers the overall maintenance cost of supporting open source software across multiple unix flavors on many servers. It also saves me from reinventing the wheel with the generic rpm. That in itself is a lifesaver. Excellent work! @ 1.6 log @add entry from David M. Fetter @ text @d4 16 a19 1 Community Advocacy @ 1.5 log @english usage and style @ text @d138 11 @ 1.4 log @english spelling @ text @d8 7 a14 8 Since OpenPKG became public in 2002, our worldwide community is steadily growing. As of August 2004, we estimate it to approximately 10.000 distinguished customers -- based on regular analysis of package downloads and mailing list subscriptions. Some of our customers volunteered and gave feedback as satisfied OpenPKG users. Those of them who provided a personal Public Advocacy Statement (see feedback form) are quoted here. d106 1 a106 1 We are moving all our internal and customer's systems to OpenPKG which has @ 1.3 log @URL is bogus IMHO @ text @d8 1 a8 1 Since OpenPKG became public in 2002, our world-wide community is d72 2 a73 2 convoluted, out-of-date, shared NFS directory to cleanly managed and easily upgraded package system. This is light-years ahead of any d82 1 a82 1 for the Kolab e-mail server. Nowhere else can one deploy such a rich d125 2 a126 2 the major services it provides without having to do a time-consuming full-system upgrade on a machine in a remote location. I was able @ 1.2 log @fix URL rendering @ text @d122 1 a122 1 org-url="http://www.elitists.org"> @ 1.1 log @add advocacy page @ text @d46 1 a46 1 "\">" @