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On Selecting a Well Engaged Open Source Vendor

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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 advisor to help our customers decide which Open Source products to buy.

(My boss would insist that I point out here that we do customisation of Open Source for our customers, and have assisted many in the past with deploying pure upstream solutions. Basically, we do what is the right fit for the customer, and aren’t obsessed with fitting customers into pre-defined moulds that suit our partners.)

That makes it important that we recommend products from companies that are well engaged with their upstream Open Source communities. That might be OpenStack, or ONAP, or even something like Open Daylight. This raises the obvious question – what makes a company well engaged with an upstream project?

Read more over at my employer’s blog…

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Mirror traffic during the last day of LCA 2007

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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 #
 # TCP:         241086    225547K       96643   16655034      144443    208892K #
 # UDP:              4        412           2        266           2        146 #
 # ICMP:             0          0           0          0           0          0 #
 # Other IP:         1         28           1         28           0          0 #
 # Non-IP:           0          0           0          0           0          0 #
 #                                                                              #
 #                                                                              #
 # Total rates:      49188.4 kbits/sec        Broadcast packets:            0   #
 #                    6592.2 packets/sec      Broadcast bytes:              0   #
 #                                                                              #
 # Incoming rates:    3814.2 kbits/sec                                          #
 #                    2714.4 packets/sec                                        #
 #                                            IP checksum errors:           0   #
 # Outgoing rates:   45374.2 kbits/sec                                          #
 #                    3877.8 packets/sec                                        #
 # Elapsed time:   0:00 #########################################################
  X-exit

Yay for LCA 2007 videos.

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Second beta of linux.conf.au 2005 CD ROM

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There is a second beta of the linux.conf.au 2005 CD ROM, including an ISO image this time, available at http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux.conf.au/2005/. If people could have a poke around and point out any errors to me, that would be mightily neighbourly.

I don’t have time to take the CD ROM project much further than producing the image, due to imminent buggering off from Australia, but it is my fond hope that we’ll have the CD out before this year’s yuletide festivities.

(I’ve been watching Firefly, and I think it’s affecting my language style. Why on earth did Fox cancel that series, and worse than that, why did it gross so badly at the cinema?)

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First beta of the LCA 2005 CD ROM

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The first beta version of the LCA 2005 CD ROM is hosted here at http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux.conf.au/2005/cdrom-beta-1/. Feedback is encouraged — please send it to mikal@stillhq.com.

This announcement is sitting at the front page of the Linux Australia Mirror Project server. I would appreciate any comments people have on the beta CD ROM, especially what extra content I can fill the left over 150 megabytes with. I’ve tried to fill the empty space with useful looking things, but my brain is rapidly emptying.

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The LCA 2005 conference CD

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I’m bored, so I’m making a LCA conference CD. Given that we have no audio, and that the corrupt video is quite big and will be online soon (I just need to wrangle the data across), I’m looking for other things to fill the CD with. So far I’ve decided that photos of the conference would be cool. So, if you have some photos which you wouldn’t mind being on the CD drop me an email and I’ll see what I can do. I’m happy with stamp the images with a domain name like I do here if that makes people happier.

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