NewsForge: Progeny’s Plans Could Make Linux Distros Interchangeable

“Progeny, which calls itself ‘The Linux Platform Company,’ has
made a Debian port of Red Hat’s Anaconda installer. Progeny is also
continuing its work on Discover, an XML-based utility that may
revolutionize the way Linux detects hardware and loads kernel
modules or other drivers. None of this work is immediately visible
to end users, says Progeny Director of Technology John Daily, but
these open source projects, and others Progeny is supporting, have
the potential to make Linux easier to administer for everyone from
high-end enterprise sysadmins to home users who only use their
computers for simple office tasks.

“Some of this goes back to the Linux Standard Base (LSB), a
project that hopes to make sure all Linux distributions and other
Unix-like systems do some things alike so that admins familiar with
one can easily work with another, and software developers only need
to package one set of binaries instead of making one set for Red
Hat, another for SUSE, one for Mandrake, one for Debian, and so
on…”

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