Catching up with recent news, I came across this blog post by Stephen John Smoogen in Fedora People, where he explains the reason for the recent disappearance of the Puppet package from the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL 6) repository: This week various people using EPEL on RHEL and CentOS 6 have found that … Continue reading EPEL : the effort behind the scenes
VimGolf – a quick and fun way to learn Vim text editor. Â There is a whole lot of different challenges for all levels – from novice to expert – that will test your knowledge of Vim trickery. You can also review the solutions provided by other people, from shortest to the most readable.
The General Public License (GPL) has been the source of many discussions since it was created in 1989 (with a few versions in following years) and applied to numerous Open Source Software projects. Currently, there is one more such discussion going on. Â It was kicked off by Matt Mullenweg, the founder and CEO of Automattic, … Continue reading GPL : Matt Mullenweg and Automattic vs. Wix
Here are a couple of interesting articles from the last few days on Slashdot. First, comes in a very non-surprising survey saying that “40 percent of organizations store admin passwords in Word documents“. Â Judging from my personal experiences in different companies, I’d say this number is much higher if you extend the Word documents to … Continue reading Yet another bit on security
Here is a good Open Source story – “How Google Uses and Contributes to Open Source“, which goes into some detail and history of how Google is working with Open Source community. I’ve seen this before: “There are companies and people who just take the software and say, “I didn’t have to pay for it. … Continue reading How Google Uses and Contributes to Open Source