Just released today is the second Release Candidate (Beta-RC2) for GoOSe 6.0 – You can find it here. In addition to the DVD, netinstall and CD installation images, you will now find a Live Desktop ISO.

Please help us by downloading and using the ISO images. File any bugs you find. It’s incredibly easy to become a contributor!! (If you are not a contributor yet, please email bugs to the goose-linux mailing list.)

Cheers,

herlo

Coming up this Saturday at UTOSC 2012, we will be setting up a room dedicated to boardgames. We’ll be LA 122 starting at 10am and going until someone kicks us out of the building. It could be a fairly late night of boardgame fun!!

If you plan on attending any or all of the boardgames session at UTOSC, please bring your boardgames. Mark them in some fashion with your name, and bring them down! We need tons of games as many people will come to play!

Myself, I’ll be bringing at least the following games, possibly more:

• Mag Blast
• Ticket to Ride (USA and Europe)
• Small World
• Killer Bunnies
• Dominion
• Apples to Apples
• Bang!

Bring your games or come and play what is there. Either way it should be a blast!

Cheers,

herlo

The first will be on my latest project, GoOSe Linux – Rebuilding Enterprise Linux the ‘Community’ Way at 11:15am on Thursday, May 3.. If you ever wondered why CentOS took so long to rebuild Enterprise Linux, wondered what other options are out there, or even were just curious how Linux is built, come by and listen. It will be entertaining and enlightening.

The second talk will be Koji – A Reliable, Repeatable Build Environment, 4pm on Thursday, May 3. If you aren’t aware of what Koji does, it builds and manages RPMs. While we use it for the GoOSe project, many folks need a simple and clean way to build packages in a repeatable and reliable way.  Koji can also build LiveCD/LiveDVD images, manages repositories, tags builds and much, much more.

The last presentation I will be giving is ‘The State of Open Source‘, it’s a keynote presentation at 1:30pm on Friday, May 4. Expect this talk to be light and fun! I hope everyone comes out and enjoys this talk as well.

Additionally, it looks like Victor and the gang have created badges for you to put on your blog, Facebook, Google+, etc. so get them out there and come hang out at UTOSC 2012!

Cheers,

herlo

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:

Cheers,

Herlo

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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