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Today at SCaLE10x: System Administration Study Group

January 20, 2012 – 9:26 am

If you haven’t heard my ranting and raving about the SysadminSG last weekend at FUDCon, it went pretty well. Turns out, this weekend is another run of the event. The goal is to help Fedora contributors (and others) prepare for the tough world of Linux system administration.

If you attend the event, you will receive two study guides and an ec2 instance for about 24-hours. The idea is that you will spend the day today studying with others to improve your system administration skills. There are no instructors, but I will be there to get the ec2 instances setup and help with any non-study related issues.

If you are interested in the sysadminSG,  come visit us at SCaLE10x today:

Southern California Linux Expo 10x (SCaLE10x)
Los Angeles Airport Hilton – Catalina C
9am – 5pm

Cheers,

Herlo

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More Sysadmin Study Group than you can handle! FUDCon Blacksburg and SCaLE 10x

January 4, 2012 – 12:15 am

As mentioned previously, there will be a Sysadmin Study Group workshop at FUDCon.

Now we’re announcing the Sysadmin Study Group will be the Fedora Activity Day at SCaLE 10x!

So Exciting!

Well, it’s been a week since the first run of my ec2 instances for the SysadminSG (or System Administrators Study Group).Things look promising. The folks over in #fedora-cloud and #boxgrinder have been especially helpful! Thanks a ton msavy and gholms and rbergeron too!

The plan here is to grant every user in a room access to an ec2 instance for 24-hours. It may be shorter or longer, depending on a few unknowns at this time. After some additional testing tonight, I think just a bit more work and the workshop will ready. We still need to update the Study Guide to match the RHEL6 RHCSA exam and RHCE exam requirements, so if anyone wants to take that on, just let me know and I’ll point you in the right direction.

If you are looking to do some RHCE prep with others, come on down to the Sysadmin SG workshop at either FUDCon Blacksburg or SCaLE 10x! We look forward to seeing you there!

Cheers,

Herlo

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Releasing skein 2.0 into the wild – Grapple gets a client function

December 8, 2011 – 6:04 pm

The GoOSe Project has been very busy over the past two weeks. This evening, after dinner, I will be releasing skein 2.0. It’s major functionality will be documented and placed in the RELEASE.rst file on github. Essentially, the request, query, grant, import and build functionality is what makes this 2.0 and ready to use.

The best part about this tool is, while I have been working on it, almost all of the remaining SRPMS have been imported and the majority of them have been built on our koji server. Right now, we’re on the last batch and I expect it to finish sometime late Friday or early Saturday (12/10/2011). This ends our first major hurdle to getting an Alpha release of GoOSe Linux 6.0 out the door.

Another huge tool in this process is Grapple, written by python master Nafai, (aka Travis Hartwell). He spent a good bit of time getting this github hook in place that will record all git commits and help to process them automatically. I spent a bit of time and added a client script to grab the recorded commits and send them on to koji automatically with the proper dist value and url. No more guessing! This is the ‘automagic’ corollary to skein build.

Next up, I plan to rebuild the failed builds and push them through koji again, using skein build. Possibly doing this a few more times until we get things pared down to the packages that don’t just have dependency problems. I hope to have most of those fixed up and in place by Monday or Tuesday next week (12/12/2011).I’ve also noticed a few builds that will never build for our arches, so I will have to figure out what to do with them for now.  I don’t want to waste koji resources trying to rebuild them when I know they will never work.

The first Alpha ISO is getting close enough to taste it now! We’ll have to make sure to have a grand celebration upon our first Golden GoOSe Release :)

Cheers,

Herlo

 

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Happening Today: The Very First GoOSe Sprint!

October 22, 2011 – 10:10 am
We’re starting to really ramp up on the GoOSe Project. If you haven’t heard about this project, check out my previous posts.

Well, I have been meaning to write this post every day this week, only to be bombarded with work or other projects getting in the way. However, I am currently sitting at the Beans & Brews at 45 East 11400 South in Sandy, Utah participating in the very first GoOSe Sprint.

My goal today is very simple, get skein 2.0 out the door for testing. Most of contributors will be using skein to build the upstream packages necessary to make the distribution work, so I need to finish this work.

There are other tasks being performed today, including documentation, package building, automating tasks and finishing up the new website.

If you have any interest in seeing how an enterprise quality distribution can be rebuilt using free software, we’d love to have you stop by #gooseproject on irc.freenode.net. The GoOSe mailing list is another great place to read about what we’re doing.

Or if you like physical space, come on by the Beans & Brews today from 10am until 2pm. There should be at least a few of us working on something all day long. Just look for the nerds in the corner getting all excited while discussing phrases like ‘build process’ and ‘skein grant’ :P

Update: We’re going to be moving down to the Beans and Brews at 155 East 13800 South at approximately 12:45pm

Cheers,

Herlo

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Building RPMs and ‘This Week in Fedora’ interview

September 26, 2011 – 4:31 pm

Many of you may have already heard from my good friend Derek Carter about the GoOSe Project. If you haven’t, I’d love to hear your comments on what we are doing. I’d also encourage many of you to come and join the project and help us to build a community of contributors dedicated to making the best enterprise Linux rebuild available.

Recently, Jonathan Nadaeu and I sat down and discussed Fedora, GoOSe and a few other fun things on This Week in Fedora. The majority of the interview was about the GoOSe project and it covers a good bit of why we’re doing what we’re doing, how it works and how to get involved. Have a listen, and come hang out and help out the project!

In addition, I was asked to do a presentation this week on how to build RPMs at the Ogden Area Linux User Group (OALUG). While I teach this in my day job as a Red Hat Trainer, I’ve never given my own presentation. I’m really excited to share some very useful tips and tricks on how to build an RPMs and set them up in a custom repository for your company or for others to consume. It’s very cool and very easy to do most of this work.

So come on up to OALUG tomorrow night if you can.  I’ll make sure to follow-up here with the useful links for those interested.

Cheers,

Herlo

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Reminder: UTOS Project Day is Tomorrow!

September 16, 2011 – 10:29 am

Boys and Girls, pay attention here!

If you have never been to a UTOS Project Day, you just might want to attend. There have been 3 previously successful Project Day events and this one looks to be as awesome! In fact, just for attending and working on your project, there will be a raffle for a Motorola XOOM!

But really, that’s not why you should attend.

I will be there! :)

Oh, that’s not enough? Here are 5 excellent reasons to attend!

  1. It’s Software Freedom Day and what better way to come down and work on a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) project
  2. There will be a bunch of other folks there too, working on interesting projects
  3. Many will be willing to collaborate with you and discuss your project
  4. Free food and snacks throughout the day
  5. Helping out the Utah Open Source Foundation with its efforts for UTOSC 2012 next spring

Add your project

If you would like help with your project, it’s a good idea to add it to the list. If you are looking for a project, check out the entries and see if there is something there that interests you. Either way, there will likely be more projects than what is currently listed.

So come on down!

Miller Professional Development Center Room #226
9750 South 300 West (map)
Sandy, Utah 84070
10:00 am – 5:30 pm

I know quite a few folks who will be interested in staying later as well at a local coffee shop or similar and hacking well into the evening. Don’t let the draw of a football game get you distracted, there will be plenty of time to watch it on DVR on Sunday afternoon!

Cheers,

Herlo

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What I did today at Ohio LinuxFest – Salt

September 10, 2011 – 1:18 pm

Yes, I was at the Ohio LinuxFest this weekend!

Even though I did attend several presentations on Saturday. My day was mostly taken up with something else…

I built rpm packages for salt!

If you aren’t sure what salt is, check out their site and read the authors blog. Essentially, salt makes it easy to run a set of commands on multiple machines all at the same time, returning results quickly and asynchronously.

If you are interested in trying out salt on your system(s) and run Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, etc. feel free to try out the rpms. I’ve currently got a review request on bugzilla as well if anyone is interested in providing a review.

Cheers,

herlo

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Wedding, Project Day and SELF

May 28, 2011 – 8:53 pm

Folks, it’s been a few crazy weeks for me recently. Tons and tons of activity in my life. All of which has been good, so very good!

Wedding on Friday the Thirteenth

On May 13, Jennifer and I were wed at a wonderfully pretty chapel downtown in Salt Lake City. The Holy Cross Historic Chapel, inside the Salt Lake Regional Medical Center is very pretty. Although a bit hot in the chapel that day, it was a beautiful ceremony. I was very excited when Jennifer walked down the aisle. So beautiful! And when she said ‘heck yes’ to the question of marriage, I was very excited.

The reception was even more awesome and the best part of the whole day. All of our good friends and family came and enjoyed some of the most awesome food at the Wild Rose in South Jordan. If you have not been to this restaurant, I suggest you check it out. Awesome food, awesome environment and Ken Rose, the owner-chef extraordinaire went above and beyond on everything!

The Honeymoon

On Sunday, May 16, we flew to Miami. As we left the Salt Lake airport, Jennifer was a bit misty-eyed as we left AJ behind. Monday, we boarded the Norwegian Sky and enjoyed a 4-day cruise to the Bahamas. This being the first cruise for Jennifer and I, it was a ton of fun, but definitely not the culture we were expecting. Again, amazing food and great sites every day.

On Tuesday, we spent a good day out and about on Grand Bahama Island. Snorkeling and a deserted island with lots of good drinks and new friends. I really enjoyed the conch demonstration and later on, conch fritters at a little bar at Port Lucaya. Almost missed the last bus, but such a fun time.

Overall, quite an enjoyable time.

UTOS Project Day

Today was the UTOS Project Day. We’ve been planning on having a few more of these and today’s was no different. Quite an excellent event for those who made it out. Tons of hacking, snacking and collaborating. I had to run out to my niece Tanja’s 1st birthday part, which was excellent and tons of fun, for part of the day. Overall, lots of good geeking out was had today!

We’re planning another Project Day for August 27. Make plans now to come out and hack. More details to come very soon!

South East Linux Fest (SELF)

If you are going to SELF this year, or have heard about it just here, I recommend you all try to get out to this amazing event. It’s a great weekend conference in Spartanburg, South Carolina, June 10-12.

Unfortunately, I was trying to work out attending this event, but will not be able to make it due to many reasons. I went to the first SELF, and am sad that I haven’t been able to make it sense. It’s on my list for 2012 again, so here’s hoping.

The Future

Well, as you might be able to see, plenty of good things have been happening. Wedding, Honeymoon, Project Day and more work than I can handle is coming right along.

Recently, I announced the Silver project, an easy-to-use development environment for web development. I’ve been busy improving and should be able to release v0.3 by the end of June. Several good bug fixes and new features should bring more and more functionality, making it easier to do QA and deploy to live environments using Silver.

In the near future, another project I’ve been working on will be announced. I’m hoping it will happen in the next month or two. It’s the project that has been filling in the gaps while I wasn’t busy with the wedding, honeymoon or working. I am very excited to announce this project soon, so keep an eye out in the next little while!

Cheers,

Herlo

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UTOS Project Day: Install Fedora 15

May 25, 2011 – 8:54 am

Are you planning on attending the UTOS Project Day this Saturday, May 28? Come work on your projects in an open environment with food, friends and feedback.

Folks, since Fedora 15 was just released yesterday, I had an idea regarding the UTOS Project Day. I’m going to setup an installation server and usb keys for anyone who wishes to try out and/or install Fedora 15 on their computer.

There are only a couple requirements:

  1. If you want the media on your USB key, you must provide at least a 2GB key. (Any existing data should be preserved, but make a backup just in case.)
  2. Installations will be done using network boot, which requires a PxE capable laptop. Most are these days, just make sure yours supports this feature.

UTOS Project Day is going to be tons of fun. Come on down and try out Fedora 15, work on your project., or help someone else work on theirs.

Here’s to seeing all my geek friends this weekend at UTOS Project Day!!

Cheers,

Herlo

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Fedora 15 (Lovelock) is here – get yours today!

May 24, 2011 – 8:41 am

Here’s the announcement from Fedora Project Leader, Jared Smith.

Several new features are available, many which I am excited about.

  • GNOME 3 desktop environment – built from awesome!
  • Btrfs filesystem now optionally available
  • Better crash reporting
  • Better SELinux support
  • More apps in live media thanks to XZ compression
  • Better power management
  • LibreOffice replaces OpenOffice
  • Firefox 4
  • Systemd – the new and better replacement for SYSV init
  • And much, much more…

Download and share (via bittorrent) the latest release of joy and happiness. Fedora 15 is here!

Cheers,

Herlo

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