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Anthill OS

A Bit of History

Anthill OS is the original Build Management Server that started the space when it was released in July of 2001. We developed Anthill OS as a result of build management difficulties that we encountered on a consulting project. Being software developers we wrote a piece of software that would enforce good build management practices and policies rather than creating any more written procedures.

The success of Anthill OS was a bit overwhelming. We counted tens of thousands of downloads and hundreds of people on our mailing list very quickly. There was so much interest in the tool that we had to dedicate one full-time person to just handling the mailing list traffic, support requests, feature requests, and all the other activities related to having a successful project. The problem was that it was just a source of additional cost for us; and so we decided to build a commercial version. We figured that if the commercial version covered at least the cost of maintaining itself and the OS version, then if would be successful enough. The commercial version was AnthillPro, and it's been a lot more successful we had ever hoped.

Documentation

A manual for Anthill OS is available for download in PDF format.

Mailing Lists

There are a number of mailing lists for Anthill OS.

Anthill Users Mailing List

This list is for people that are using Anthill on their own projects and would like to ask questions, share knowledge, and discuss issues related to using the Anthill build management server. Right now this is a low to medium volume list.
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Anthill Announce Mailing List

This list is for people that want to be notified of new Anthill features and releases. This list is not exclusive to Anthill OS, as AnthillPro releases are announced to this list as well. This is a low volume list.
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Anthill Developers Mailing List

This list is for people that want to be involved in the development of Anthill. Currently this is a low traffic list.
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License

Anthill OS is released user the Urbancode Public License, which is a Mozilla-like license. The Base Public License is referenced by and incorporated into the Urbancode Public License.