La Distribution's mission is to distribute web applications and manage their lifecycle.
By making the installation of web applications accessible to everyone, we want to democratize their usage. This way, we want to help every person build his own applicative suite, precisely suited to their needs.
The ultimate goal of the project is to help our users, through these applications, escape proprietary platforms, and take back control of their digital life.
Sure, it seems like a huge endeavor, but we're only getting started…
Catalog
La Distribution's catalog is made of packages, available from repositories, similar to Linux distros in this principles.
In a distributed manner, anyone can create his repository and make packages available to other users.
Interface
Applications are commonly handled from a client application, which is either pre-installed by the host, or to be installed by the user.
From this administration panel, applications can be very easily installed, in 1 clic and 5 seconds, with no need for any technical knowledge whatsoever.
The panel allows you to manage the whole application lifecycle: installation, configuration, themes, extensions, backup, restore, updates, uninstallation.
Installation
La Distribution can be intuitively installed on common PHP/MySQL hosting providers. Read the detailed installation procedure.
However, we think the technology we develop is meant to be pre-installed by hosting provider, so that mainstream users don't have to handle strange things like FTP, chmod, MySQL.
This is the reason why we ourselves operate an experimental hosting service. Its name is appslots.com and it is currently in private alpha, by invitation only.
Contribute
La Distribution is a very young project, and the more it will be tested in various environments and situations, the better it will become. We're enthusiastically waiting for your bug reports, your ideas, big or small. Each of these simple contributions will be big steps forward for the project.
Also, the usefulness of La Distribution will grow with the number of packages available. This is why we really waiting for contributions in this area too. Any ideas? Browse and complement the application list.
For more informations about the development, check out our Trac.
About
La Distribution is a project conceived and developed by François Hodierne through the company h6e.
The source of La Distribution is made available to the public under the MIT and GPL licenses, allowing anybody to do nearly anything with it.
Enterprises or individuals, if you want to support us, you can make a donation through Paypal. The money will be integrally reinvested in new developments and packaging of new applications.
Don't hesitate to contact us by email for any inquiries:
contact at ladistribution dot net