News Ticker
This is the OpenPKG News Ticker providing news messages from the OpenPKG world. The messages are shown in descending post date order. Messages which are currently also currently displayed on the title page are rendered with a white on black headline.
2007-04-19
OpenPKG Enterprise 1 Pro
The OpenPKG GmbH ships OpenPKG Enterprise 1 Pro now, the new online variant of OpenPKG Enterprise 1.
2007-02-21
The OpenPKG Foundation e.V. released OpenPKG 2-STABLE-20070221,
the latest snapshot distribution of the OpenPKG Community 2-STABLE
branch.
OpenPKG 2-STABLE-20070201
The OpenPKG Foundation e.V. released OpenPKG 2-STABLE-20070221,
the latest snapshot distribution of the OpenPKG Community 2-STABLE
branch.
2006-12-12
OpenPKG Enterprise 1
The OpenPKG GmbH ships OpenPKG Enterprise 1 now, the new premium product for business customers and their professional Unix server setups. OpenPKG Enterprise 1 is the successor to OpenPKG Community 2.5 as it provides essential security updates based on back-ported and compatible security fixes over the life-time of more than 1 year.
2006-12-01
Advent Calendar 2006
The OpenPKG Advent Calendar 2006 until Christmas delivers you daily pondering, backstage information and tips & tricks.
2006-11-11
OpenPKG GSBA Thesis
The GSBA thesis "How can OpenPKG support IT business" from Richard Maier is now available online. The thesis analyzes OpenPKG's value proposition from a business perspective and can be used by IT decision makers as a comprehensive foundation for their business judgement on OpenPKG.
2006-10-23
OpenPKG Crossed 1000 Package Cornerstone
After 6 years of steady development, OpenPKG-CURRENT today crossed the cornerstone of 1000 high-quality, concise and clean OpenPKG RPM packages.
2006-10-18
The OpenPKG Foundation e.V. released OpenPKG 2- STABLE- 20061018, the
latest community snapshot distribution of the OpenPKG 2-STABLE branch. Together with the forthcoming OpenPKG
Enterprise 1 this distribution finally supercedes
OpenPKG 2.5.
OpenPKG 2-STABLE-20061018
The OpenPKG Foundation e.V. released OpenPKG 2- STABLE- 20061018, the
latest community snapshot distribution of the OpenPKG 2-STABLE branch. Together with the forthcoming OpenPKG
Enterprise 1 this distribution finally supercedes
OpenPKG 2.5.
2006-09-24
Package Browser Available
A new OpenPKG web service is available: the OpenPKG Package Browser. It allows you to browse the OpenPKG packages by their group, search them via one or more keywords or even directly select them in case their name is already known to you. For each package package header, security advisory, source file and download information is provided.
2006-08-21
New Tracker & Statistics
Two long-standing services of the OpenPKG-CURRENT development efforts were now re-implemented from scratch: 1. the OpenPKG Vendor Version Tracker is now database driven and reports on demand with a Web user interface instead of bi-daily Mails. 2. the CVS Repository Activity Statistics are now reported again on the Web with nice bar charts.
2006-06-22
The OpenPKG project diverged the 2-STABLE branch and created a snapshot.
The OpenPKG Foundation e.V. merged CORE+BASE+PLUS packages
into the new OpenPKG 2-STABLE branch.
OpenPKG 2-STABLE Snapshot
The OpenPKG project diverged the 2-STABLE branch and created a snapshot.
The OpenPKG Foundation e.V. merged CORE+BASE+PLUS packages
into the new OpenPKG 2-STABLE branch.
2006-06-08
The video was produced end of April 2006 by the OpenPKG GmbH and first
spread to the public on DVD in May 2006 by the OpenPKG Foundation e.V. on the
LinuxTag 2006 exhibition in Wiesbaden, DE.
Demonstration Video Available
The OpenPKG Demonstration Video is now available, featuring OpenPKG on FreeBSD, Linux and Solaris in parallel.
The video was produced end of April 2006 by the OpenPKG GmbH and first
spread to the public on DVD in May 2006 by the OpenPKG Foundation e.V. on the
LinuxTag 2006 exhibition in Wiesbaden, DE.
2006-03-28
proud to announce the establishment of the OpenPKG GmbH, a sibling
organization with the dedicated goal of providing commercial services
to OpenPKG business customers.
Read more about this in the official Press
Release…
Business Services Available
After resource consolidations and organizational restructuring during 2005, the OpenPKG Project is
proud to announce the establishment of the OpenPKG GmbH, a sibling
organization with the dedicated goal of providing commercial services
to OpenPKG business customers.
Read more about this in the official Press
Release…
2006-03-27
New Websites Launched
The three OpenPKG websites…- OpenPKG.org (Project)
- OpenPKG.com (Corporation)
- OpenPKG.net (Foundation)
2006-03-20
OpenPKG at LinuxTag
OpenPKG was represented by the OpenPKG Foundation e.V. and OpenPKG GmbH at LinuxTag 2006, one of the largest and most popular European open-source Expo and Conference. Get an impression…
2006-03-20
OpenPKG-CURRENT Status
As of March 2006, OpenPKG-CURRENT consists of over 91,000 lines of polished OpenPKG RPM package specification code, resulting in over 950 freely available individual packages. OpenPKG-CURRENT is updated twice(!) per day. So, if you need the latest bleeding edge Unix software, drive OpenPKG-CURRENT!
2006-03-20
OpenPKG-RELEASE Status
Download the current RELEASE: OpenPKG 2.5 It contains 579 packages, carefully selected from the pool of over 950 OpenPKG-CURRENT packages and available for 19 different Unix platforms. Read more in the OpenPKG 2.5 Press Release…
2005-11-28
Download Policy Changed
Since 2005-11-28 the download policy on OpenPKG.org is changed to allow the OpenPKG project to better identify its effective user community. This is vital for the future of the OpenPKG project and every user is called to support the OpenPKG project with both a simple, free of charge and one-time registration and an identification during downloads. Read more…