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Merchandising & Advocacy
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.
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convoluted, out of date, shared NFS directory to cleanly managed and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!
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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
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