Custom Linux Builder (and Money),
The Custom Linux Market is starting to heating up. Back in October of 2003 when Cobind had its first prototype of its DiY tools I knew this was going to be big. So maybe its not the easiest thing to sell. Your target market is a bunch of Linux hackers that would rather be buried in Emacs than use some application that abstracts all the bits-and-bytes of creating a distro. But I think it would be an ultimate application to be able to quickly and easily create new Linux distros and easily provide support for all of them. Cobind has failed to get the funding we needed to continue but luckily I’ve been able to continue this journey into a Custom Linux Building at Timesys.
The market is clearly there we have Progeny selling like mad and Specifix ramping up each of them targeting the Custom Linux Market. At TimeSys we have been focusing on the embedded market which I think is the right move, its a niche market that really needs customized Linux. The reason for this rant is to mainly say Timesys has more funding now and therefore I will get to see my vision of a source-to-distro Custom Linux Builder. How exciting!