This paper examines the withdrawal behaviour of corporate contributors to OpenStack, which seems particularly relevant given most contributions in OpenStack are corporately supported, and corporate engagement is declining over time. Its also directly relevant to my own experiences contributing to the project, so seemed like a thing I should read. One interesting aspect of the…
Tag: opensource
pngtools, code that can nearly drink in the US
I was recently contacted about availability problems with the code for pngtools. Frankly, I’m mildly surprised anyone still uses this code, but I am happy for them to do so. I have resurrected the code, placed it on github, and included the note below on all relevant posts: A historical note from November 2020: this…
On Selecting a Well Engaged Open Source Vendor
Aptira is in an interesting position in the Open Source market, because we don’t usually sell software. Instead, our customers come to us seeking assistance with deciding which OpenStack to use, or how to embed ONAP into their nationwide networks, or how to move their legacy networks to the software defined future. Therefore, our most common role is as a trusted…
PNGtools 0.4
Wow, this is a blast from the past. When I wrote the pngchunks command in 2003, I had never seen a 64 bit machine, and knew enough to check that an int was the right size, but not enough to just use the guaranteed-to-be-32-bit version from day 1. I’d pretty much forgotten about this code…
Mirror traffic during the last day of LCA 2007
It seems obvious to me that videos of LCA 2007 are good. Specifically: IPTraf # Statistics for eth0 ########################################################## # # # Total Total Incoming Incoming Outgoing Outgoing # # Packets Bytes Packets Bytes Packets Bytes # # Total: 241091 228940K 96646 18025370 144445 210915K # # IP: 241091 225548K 96646 16655328 144445 208892K #…
My first sighting of the ImageMagick book in the wild
My ImageMagick book is for sale at the MySQL user’s conference trade show. There are only a few copies there, but it is nice to actually see it out there. I wonder if they’ll sell any copies?
Mirroring the Linux Update podcast
I’m glad James appreciates the mirror. Perhaps it’s worth using the mirrors in the XML feeds for the podcast? [icbm: home]
We’re getting there
So, we’re still pulling stuff, although a bit of that has been deciding what to pull… [icbm: home]
Thanks for the kind word Pia
Pia has nice things to say about the mirror project, but I thought I should chime in and mention that Andrew has done by far the most work so far. [btags:] [icbm: home]
The Linux Australia mirroring project
Some of you might be aware that Linux Australia recently agreed to support a trial open source mirror project for Australia. This mirror is being run by a sub-committee of Linux Australia, on hardware owned by Linux Australia. The purpose of this post is to remind people of the project, and give a quick status…