more on linkat2

I've been asked to post some links about linkat2 as the official webpage is in catalan, so here they are:

here the slides that were presented at fosdem08:

http://files.opensuse.org/opensuse/en/b/b7/Linkat_FOSDEM_4.pdf


here the url for downloading the linkat2 beta 1:

http://download-linkat.xtec.cat/distribution/linkat-2.0/iso/linkat-2.0-beta1-dvd.iso

here the url for a net install for the linkat2 beta 1:

http://download-linkat.xtec.cat/distribution/linkat-2.0/iso/linkat-2.0-boot-cd.iso

and a vmware linkat2 beta 1:

http://download-linkat.xtec.cat/distribution/linkat-2.0/vmware/


and a very nice logo done by Artur Tallada and Marià Cano that you can see at the top.

Fosdem 2008 impressions

Just back from this great event that is fosdem, the most important event for community free software developers in Europe.

I have assisted to great talks and I am sure I have also missed some other great talks. Just to mention some:

on Sunday there were two very interesting talks about virtualization, one about Xen and the other one about VirtualBox
on Sunday there was a very interesting talk about kiwi, the system imaging creator for openSUSE isos, livecds and usb sticks. A must use technology for building custom distributions.
on Saturday there were very interesting talks about the build service, the openSUSE tool for building rpms and debs. A must use technology for building custom distributions, too.

Many thanks to the openSUSE people that let us present linkat and for their interest on the project, specially to Francis Giannaros.



Many thanks to the Fosdem organization, too, that make the 8th fosdem edition possible.

I've just uploaded the photos to my flickr account at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jordimassaguerpla

You can see photos from the linkat presentation at (thanks toni!):

http://www.flickr.com/photos/toniher/tags/fosdem2008/

CLAM 1.2 publicat

L'equip del CLAM ha publicat la versió 1.2 on hi ha incorporat el treball fet sota el paraigües del Google Summer of Code així com el fet en el "Barcelona Media Foundation Audio Research Line".

Podeu trobar més info a:

http://clam.iua.upf.edu/

Estan treballant en temes realment impressionants que val la pena no perdre's, com la simulació acústica en 3D o el testfarm, l'eina d'integració contínua que utilitzen, a més a més de tota la recerca en audio que, de forma molt intel·ligent, estan aportant a la societat a través de codi lliure. Un exemple de transmissió de coneixament a seguir.

JClic ja és Debian

El programari educatiu JClic, desenvolupat per Francesc Busquets i utilizat arreu del món en centres educatius, forma part ja de la distribució Debian. La informació del package la podeu trobar a:

http://packages.debian.org/sid/jclic

Debian té tot una política estricta (i ha de ser així) per a què un aplicatiu pugui formar part de la distribució. JClic compleix aquesta política i ha estat acceptat.

JClic té més de 1000 activitats, contribuïdes per la comunitat en diferents idiomes.

En la secció d'enllaços del projecte jclic http://clic.xtec.net/es/com/linkoteca.htm podeu trobar comunitats de llocs molt diversos: alemania, argentina, frança, chile, múrcia, aragó, balears, ....

El codi es troba a la Farga

https://projectes.lafarga.cat/projects/jclic/scm

i el projecte de traducció del jclic està hostatjat al launchpad

https://translations.launchpad.net/jclic/ .

Enhorabona als membres del project jclic!

proud to be a lizard

I'm very proud to be an openSUSE member. Today, the openSUSE board has accepted my application.

"openSUSE Members" are specifically distinguished contributors who have brought a continued and substantial contribution to the openSUSE project.

2 alumnes per ordinador: és possible?

Estic redactant un article que demostra com, utilitzant linkat2.0, la tecnologia LTSP, hardware reciclat i hardware de baix cost, podríem aconseguir que catalunya tingués 2 alumnes per ordinador, com a Extremadura, en comptes dels 6 que hi ha actualment (segons estudis estadístics de la generalitat). Ho creieu possible? Si voleu col.laborar en la revisió, contacteu-me a

No centOS for SUSE, that is the difference

Yesterday I published a post into the opensuse mailing lists explaining why there is no centOS and won't be as long as novell does not change its release policy.

What I am talking about is that RedHat publishes the source code of every update (SRPMS) when the updates are sent to its customers. Theses source updates are public, so anyone can take them and recompile them and, as long as they take out the branding stuff (and RedHat tells you where to look for it), distribute them. That is what people from centOS do. Why RedHat do that? It is being told that this is the first step for some companies before getting a RedHat subscription. So it is bringing customers to RedHat. What about the ones that will never pay? Well, they would have never paid either, so... if you do not believe it, take a look at:

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Client/en/os/SRPMS

and look for the dates of the updates.

Then, what happens with Novell? Novell publishes the source code (SRPMS) when they publish the updates. That means, you are either a Novell customer, so you can get the source code for every update that is sent to you, or you wait until Novell publishes the Service Packs. That is, when the Service Packs are public, so the updates. If you have doubts, take a look at the dates of:

http://forgeftp.novell.com/sledsource/SLED-10-i386-srpms/src/
http://forgeftp.novell.com/sledsource/SLED-10-SP1-i386-srpms/src/

Novell business model differs from the RedHat one on that aspect (and in others for sure). Actually I have the feeling that RedHat looks after big clients, that is clients that will pay RedHat for a Premium Support and, as they may have a lot of servers, will pay a lot. In contrast, Novell looks after, a part from the big clients, the medium size clients, by building a partnernet network all around the world. Medium size clients will be the ones that may not be paying if they had a NovellCentOS option. However, it is only my perspective....

You can follow the discussion at the opensuse lists at:

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2008-02/msg00294.html