Deploy your own "cloud" with Debian "Wheezy"

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The Debian Project                                http://www.debian.org/
Deploy your own "cloud" with Debian "Wheezy" 		press <at> debian.org
April 25th, 2012                http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120425
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Deploy your own "cloud" with Debian "Wheezy" 

The Debian Project produces an entirely Free operating system that
empowers its users to be in control of the software running their
computers. These days, more and more computing is being moved away from
user computers to the so-called "cloud" – a vague term often used to
refer to Software as a Service (SaaS) [1] offerings. We are concerned
that, without the needed care, this trend might put in jeopardy most of
the freedoms that users enjoy when running (on their computers) 
software that is Free according to the Debian Free Software 
Guidelines [2].

  1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_as_a_service
  2: http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines

We encourage Debian users to prefer cloud offerings where the SaaS
infrastructure is entirely made of Free Software and can be run under
their control. We encourage Debian users to deploy their own clouds, as
the ultimate way to retain all the freedoms that Debian stands for.

To help our users with these tasks, we are proud to announce the
availability of several new technologies that would ease the deployment
of Debian-based clouds. Starting with the forthcoming release of Debian
7.0 "Wheezy", users will find ready-to-use packages for OpenStack® and