Posts Tagged ‘open source’

openSUSE 11.2 release party

Just a quick post letting everyone know that there is a release party here in Provo, Utah.

The Open Source Technology Center, building A on the Novell campus, has been good enough to host us again.  It will be this Thursday, November 12 from 6 to 9.

I do not have the replicated DVDs, but I will have some burned copies of the isos.

We don’t have a sponsor for pizza yet, but please RSVP anyways just in case.  Maybe we can have people throw some money in for pizza.

Pass the word on and See you all there!

UPDATE:

We will have pizza and drinks.  Please RSVP!!!

Clear Center launched

Clear Center is the resulting company/group/foundation from a company that I used to work for.  Its a full complete small business solution that gives and empowers small business with the big boy tools without the big boy costs (ClearOS features overview).  For those that have heard of clarkconnect, this is the next chapter for them.

I wish them all the best in this chapter they are opening up!

openSUSE Factory is open for Community

Some great news was just announced!  The openSUSE project opened its Factory repo up to anyone in the community that would like to directly help maintain, support, and/or contribute to the core distribution.  For those that don’t know what Factory is it is the next release of openSUSE.  So, the current Factory will become openSUSE 11.2.  You can read all about this great news over at http://news.opensuse.org.

To a more open and community oriented future…

Open Source at Google Blog

I just found this on google’s blog.  Its a new blog that is dedicated to sharing about open source happenings at Google.

Graphically display your log files

glTail.rb is a really cool app for displaying your log files graphically using opengl. I finally decided to download it this evening and give it a try. Its really easy to setup, so minimal effort required. All you have to do is install a couple common packages, mod the script just a little, and run it.  This project was started only 4 days ago and has had several new things added.

I have it running against two of my web sites and it looks really cool. I don’t get tons of traffic so mine isn’t as cool as the video clip on the website, but cool none the less. The one thing that I wish it had was a the ability to parse mysql log files. I don’t know ruby, but might look at it anyways.