Recently I’ve been seeing articles about homeschoolers using free software: Free homeschool software: Probably the best conjunction of words that a homeschooling parent has heard since they found out that their child is going to summer camp. Why shouldn’t it be? Getting more for less is as American as homeschooling itself. I’ve commented on several [...]
This was the central question I reckon I carried away after talking with folks from Nexenta. They have an open source core, Nexenta.org, that uses an OpenSolaris kernel with ZFS and a rebuilt Debian non-GUI userspace. The combination provides network attached storage (NAS) with lots of potential as an open solution. What resonated most with [...]
The open source software companies (ISVs) that I’ve been talking with about Fedora have a common problem. Ironically they, as usual, are resolving this problem individually. Making an RPM that relies upon system packages is not seen as desirable, as it reduces their portability and focuses (in their minds) on one delivery platform — RPM-based [...]
This morning I was looking at the usual awesome performance of RHT stock and glanced at the business article under the headlines section. Despite the article title being about another company, Red Hat must have been mentioned, so I gave it a look. In reading it, a number of inaccuracies and old school misconceptions leapt [...]
For a number of releases the bug triage team and others have maintained a common bugs page. The idea is to make it simpler for a Fedora user to know if i) a behavior they have seen is already recognized as a bug, and ii) what there is to do about it (if anything). It’s [...]
(This article arose from my sitting on an open source round table on Monday 08 June in Santa Clara, CA at ConnectivityWeek 2009. My slides with full speaker notes are available.) For those who’ve never heard of building automation systems (BAS) and the smart grid, you have my pardon to take a few minutes to [...]
