This year I decided to do something I’ve wanted to do for a very long time: get my own private Linux server! A place where I could have total control (i.e. root access) and be able to install or run anything I wanted! Better yet, I wanted a conary managed system that could leverage all the packaging that I have already done for Foresight Linux and be dead simple to maintain!

It is with my Community Manager hat and as a Linux enthusiast that I bring you this post about the Foresight Linux distribution, literally born and brewed where I work and filled to the brim with the technology developed at rPath. However, this is not yet another article about yet another Linux distribution with arguments about how great it is compared to other popular ones out there. No siree Bob! In fact, if you are happy with the platform or distribution that you are running, then kudos to you!

It’s been a while since I last wrote anything here, mainly because I have been working very hard on a very cool project for work that I can now finally talk about it. rPath, the place where I have been working for the last 4+ years has just announced the release of rBuilder 5.8, bringing “model-driven, version-controlled system automation deeper into the enterprise with active inventory management and support for Windows”.

A newer version of the Transifex Appliance has been released with all the latest, juicy bits! In fact, this release is the mother of all releases with so many new features and goodies that it would take me a while to jot them down here! A few impressive nuggets are: Brand New Translation Storage Engine QT (TS) translation file format support Source language file tracking over HTTP Translation file metadata auto-updating Clone language Non-English Source Languages Lotte: Multiple Source Languages, Suggestions, Keyboard Shortcuts, Translation Memory Application Programmable Interface Can you believe that Transifex has reached the 1.

If you remember one of my last posts, I wanted to eventually migrate my Django Developer Kit Appliance to use Foresight Linux as the underlying operating system… and I am proud to announce that I have made huge strides toward this goal! Thanks to the guidance of some fellow rPathians, I managed to get an almost ready for production Django 1.2.3 + PostgreSQL 8.4 + Python 2.6.2 and lots of Django modules and latest versions for Git, Mercurial, Bzr, and Subversion ready to be used!

No, this is not a repeat from yesterday’s post. Turns out there was another security release for Django yesterday (thanks Zygmunt for the heads up), so here’s the release of Django Developer Kit Appliance 1.2.3. As always, choose from the following image types: Amazon EC2 AMI Large (ami-ba996cd3) Amazon EC2 AMI Small (ami-a0996cc9) ISO x86 (SHA1 11811571ee8f8f2a0d7778c9e4275060de73f271) ISO x86_64 (SHA1 065b1c5dfa410cffeec9950d577cddd15f369bad) Raw Filesystem x86 (SHA1 141427d7c84449ccc7eacbee7d527b8ba6f7ca48) Raw Filesystem x86_64 (SHA1 482ecbbd2c177e3fdc33b18dc0ee65c83d681956) VMware ESX x86 (SHA1 10757fd1f0ec119fe236f3402bf38dfde25cb40a) VMware ESX x86 OVF 1.

Today I’m releasing my Django Developer Kit Appliance 1.2.2 due to the recent security release of Django 1.2.2. Other than a newer version of Django, you’ll also get newer versions of several packages already included by default in the appliance. I have been working hard (time permitting, off course) on migrating the appliance to a slim Foresight Linux base in order to upgrade the underlying python from 2.4 to latest 2.

This post has been sitting in my Drafts folder for a while now, as I wasn’t sure when the right time would be to publish it. It is basically my personal reflection on the last 5 years I have worked doing translations for free and open source software (FOSS) and a few lessons I learned along the way. It is also a rant against those who took my labor for granted.

Received the following email this morning: Last night our Transifex installation turned 1 year old. I think with 101 users and 4012 submissions in 45 languages it has been quite a step forward compared to the previous mailing list-based submission system. For that I'd like to thank all the people involved, most noticeably Jannis for the initial setup, the Transifex guys for help and fixing bugs, Og for the appliance we've been running for the last half year and of course the Translators with all their patience and effort to make it a success.

Here’s what happened this week: The Maze Runner This past March I started a new routine to my Sunday mornings: shortly after breakfast with the kids, I flip my laptop open and start reading the Books section[…] Django Developer Kit 1.2.1 I have just released the Django Developer Kit 1.2.1 appliance to match with the release of Django 1.2.1! Check this page for[…] For The Win! Sunday I was lucky enough to have the chance of attending a book reading (well, a passage actually) by Cory Doctorow!