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

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

Today, I released version 0.2. Silver is a full-fledged development environment built on one machine built purely in Python. Silver (formerly PyCamps) is inspired by the Perl based DevCamps project created by EndPoint. The idea is simply to make it easy for developers to have their own little environments to build web applications.

Silver is built to enable work on several projects in small, reusable areas, called camps. Focused on web applications, Silver helps to make quick and easy-to-manage environments. Each camp uses version control, and gives the developer ultimate control. Silver enables an easy workflow for quality assurance, integration testing and deployment to production for each project in similar workflows.

Building a camp is simple, easy and very flexible for both corporate and community projects. I’d like to get some feedback on Silver and am looking forward to continuing work toward more power and flexibility.

More information can be found by reading the documentation at http://projects.purpleatom.com/silver/0.2/index.html. Silver also has a github repository if you’d like to try to set it up.

Tell me what you think! It is of course open source, with an MIT license, and I am hoping some of you will join up and help the project grow!

If you are interested, please join the Silver Project google group and let’s build the awesomest development environment of the future, with Python!

Cheers,

Herlo

My point…

PASTEBINS ARE EVERYWHERE

One of the pastebins that has been in use for a very long time is http://fpaste.org and the focus of my post today. Essentially, the Fedora community tends to use fpaste.org over other pastebins as it has a bunch of nice features and it’s Fedora branded. About 2 months ago, I was asked by Jonathan Steffan (aka daMaestro) if I would be interested in packaging fpaste.org’s code and get it into Fedora infrastructure (FI). I accepted that challenge.

As Jonathan will tell you, the code was hacked together over a weekend at a coffee shop. Thus, it needed a bit of clean-up to make things work without including libs from other projects (a big no-no when packaging a Fedora rpm). After a few weeks of clean-up and back-and-forth with Jonathan, fpaste-server was born. That was the first big step to get fpaste-server into FI.

Fpaste-Server is comprised of many other packages. Since I wasn’t the maintainer on many of them, I worked with the amazingly awesome Dave Riches (dcr226) to get django-mptt, django-tracking, django-simple-captcha and django-dpaste into the EPEL repositories for both EL5 and EL6. Dave was not only helpful, but went above and beyond to complete these builds. Thank you, sir!

Over the past month, I’ve been really busy, prepping for my wedding and what not, but found some time recently to finish the package builds of fpaste-server. The packages are all approved, save for el5 which was submitted this morning. This was the second big step to get fpaste-server into FI.

This week, and after my honeymoon, I plan to finish up the work to get fpaste-server into FI. All that’s really left is to get django-tracking into EPEL6.

If you haven’t tried fpaste-server yet, you should. It’s a pretty cool and stable pastebin, it’s also very hackable. Changing out the background to fit your own logos and such is very simple. Please comment here if you find any bugs or issues, have questions or comments.

Cheers,

Herlo

Get it here.

You can read the official release announcement and other helpful links as well.

Cheers,

Herlo

# ls -l /root
total 88
-rw-------. 1 root root  1176 2008-11-23 17:22 anaconda-ks.cfg
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root  4096 2008-12-14 18:37 bin

See the . ? Where you ask?  Look closer!

drwxr-xr-x. <– look, there it is!!  At first, I thought it was just one file, but then I noticed it other places, then I looked further, and it seems to be everywhere.

What is up with that? Where does this come from?  What is it for?  LazyWeb, can you help me?

Cheers,

Herlo

Just a quick reminder about the upcoming Fedora 10 Installfest/Release Party previously announced.  Fedora 10 has been released and it’s time to party.  Alongside the party will be food, fun and of course an installfest, so bring those ‘puters and boxen to the ‘fest!

Cheers,

Herlo

SO BRING YOUR MACHINES AND GET THEM INSTALLED!

Victor Villa of the Utah PHP User Group (UPHPU) and a Utah Open Source Core Team Leader has offered his work as the location for the event.  It’s large, easy to find and best of all, centrally located in Draper, Utah.

We’ll have food, fun and probably even some prizes.  We’re working out the minor details but come on down and enjoy an evening of reverie with your Fedora friends!

Time to Fire It Up!

Clicking on the above poster will show the address and other details.

Here they are in print:

See you all there.

Cheers,

Herlo

Fedora 10 - Released

Available at mirrors everywhere.  Also via bittorrent ? and jigdo ?.

Freedom, Friends, Features, First!  That’s Fedora!

• Take the Tour
• Read the Release Notes
• Digg it

Cheers,

Herlo

And I am already running Fedora 10.  It’s stable, powerful and most of all, built from free software!  Also, I’m in charge of creating the Media for North America this release.  We’ve already pre-purchased x86 live media and plan to produce similar amounts of x86_64 live CDs as well as both x86 and x86_64 install DVDs.  It’s exciting because they should be to my house by early to mid-December!  Distribution plans are commencing as well, so keep your ear to the ground.

Mark Your Calendars

I’m organizing a Fedora 10 release party, with a usb creation station, installfest and all that jazz.  It will probably be held on December 6.  There are a couple possible locations currently being discussed.  More details to come in the near future.

Cheers,

Herlo