Category Archives: Fedora

Announcing ami-creator

I’ve been having to build some new CentOS images to be used with EC2 for work recently. I went into it thinking that it shouldn’t be too big of a deal. I know that some work had been going on in this … Continue reading

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Stop Using the Word “Cloud

The more I see it, the more I want to just completely see the usage of the word “cloud” go away. While it’s somewhat of a cliche to say so, it’s a term that has a very hazy and non-concrete … Continue reading

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EC2 and Fedora: Still stuck at Fedora 8

Amazon’s EC2 service is great for being able to roll out new servers quickly and easily. It’s also really nice because we don’t ever have to worry about physical hardware and can just spin up more instances as we need … Continue reading

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Why do all deployment systems suck?

At HubSpot, we have a pretty wide array of different things being used for the webapps running behind the scenes. This isn’t surprising. There’a also some home-grown scripts (in python, as that’s the scripting language of choice… something I’m not … Continue reading

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Beginning A New Chapter

The end of one chapter and the beginning of a new one for me. Today is my last day as an employee of Red Hat. I still remember walking in the door for my first day at Red Hat and … Continue reading

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Repeating the cycle, time to kill rhpl

Continuing on the historical vein, once upon a time there was a package included in Red Hat Linux called pythonlib. One of the things I helped do was to finish killing it off. We went along and then a few … Continue reading

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A request for some simple testing

Another thing that’s been on my list to look at that I’ve finally had time to sit down this week is the new isohybrid support in syslinux. This lets you take an ISO image, post-process it and then be able … Continue reading

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Boot tales, woo ooh!

(Take the title in the context of the theme from Duck Tales and maybe it makes sense?) There was a long and rambling discussion last week about the version of GRUB that’s shipped in Fedora and specifically the fact that … Continue reading

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PPC and Fedora: What’s Next?

Thanks to everyone for the feedback on PPC usage. At this week’s (public IRC) Fedora Board meeting, Seth had kindly put the issue up for discussion and since it was a public meeting, I took part as well. Now the … Continue reading

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PPC relevance in Fedora?

Warning: Something of a rant ahead… I considered not posting it, but am curious as to the responses I’ll get Okay, I know I’ve said this before, but I’m wondering why we continue with the illusion that PPC is a … Continue reading

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