rPath
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rPath, Inc. is a technology company based in Raleigh, North Carolina that provides a platform for software vendors to create and maintain software appliances and virtual appliances in multiple virtual machine formats. Each software appliance contains a purpose-built operating system and all the components it needs to run in a virtualized environment. This allows end users to more fully realize the benefits of virtualization.
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[edit] rBuilder Online
rBuilder Online is a free public service provided by rPath, with the stipulation that any development work done using rBuilder Online becomes public as well. rBuilder Online allows the creation of software appliances, virtual appliances and derivative Linux distributions based on Conary. rBuilder can create installable images, hard drive images and LiveCD bootable images. It creates virtual images in the following formats:
- VMware virtual disk (*.vmdk, *.dsk)
- Microsoft Virtual PC (VHD)
- Virtual Iron
- Parallels Workstation
- Xen
- Amazon AMI - to run in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
[edit] Conary
rPath developed Conary, a software package management and configuration software that forms the core of rBuilder. It allows rollbacks, incremental ("changeset") updates, and distributed downloading which removes the need for programs such as Advanced Packaging Tool or yum.
[edit] History
rPath was founded in 2003. Since rBuilder became publicly available in 2006, a number of popular appliances have been created, including a MediaWiki appliance, a network monitoring appliance, Openfiler, AsteriskNOW, and even entire desktop distributions such as Foresight Linux.
