Built a MT-Daapd Linux appliance to share my music at home. Installed it in a machine with 1GB of RAM and am now as happy as I can be. The whole thing weighs in at 237MB (I’ve included vim, openssh, libogg plus a few other nuggets) and off course everything is managed by the awesome conary technology. I’ve also added ushare (upnp support) and am hoping to make it so that sharing videos and music can be all done via a web interface.

Se você curte o Openbox e quer brincar com a versão 3.4.8 RC1, faça o download aqui: http://icculus.org/openbox/releases/openbox-3.4.8-rc1.tar.gz. Note que você vai ter de fazer uma modificação no obconf substituindo ‘obrender-3.0’ e ‘obparser-3.0’ por ‘obrender-4.0’ e ‘obparser-4.0’ respectivamente no arquivo configure.ac. Ou se você usar uma distribuição baseada no systema conary, existe uma versão empacotada diretamente do repositório git que você pode instalar executando o comando sudo conary update openbox=foresightlinux.rpath.org@fl:2-devel.

if you like Openbox and want to play with the upcoming 3.4.8 version, download the release candidate 1 here: http://icculus.org/openbox/releases/openbox-3.4.8-rc1.tar.gz. Keep in mind that you’ll have to patch obconf by basically replacing ‘obrender-3.0’ and ‘obparser-3.0’ to ‘obrender-4.0’ and ‘obparser-4.0’ respectively in the configure.ac file. Or you use a conary-based system, there is a version packaged directly from their git repository which you can install by running sudo conary update openbox=foresightlinux.rpath.org@fl:2-devel.

This weekend I’ll be attending BarCamp Raleigh for the second year in a row. Together with a couple of fellow rPathians, I’m planning to pitch in the following talks: Building GNU/Linux appliances and deploying them in the clouds How to participate and contribute with open source projects like GNOME, KDE, XFCE, Openbox, etc If you’re one of the lucky ones who managed to register in time for the event, tomorrow there will be a get together (think drinks, snacks and all the trilug geeks you can fit in a bar) at Tyler’s Tap Room (map).

As some of you may know, I’ve been doing a great deal of testing for rBuilder Online, rPath’s online community service for all your GNU/Linux appliances needs. As a QA Enginner I have a chance to play with the most innovative technologies we create (and dare I say some of the coolest things in the system/package management world?) before it hits the general public. It is because of this work and my recent super involvement with our products that I decided to create a videocast on how to create a virtual GNU/Linux appliance using rBuilder Online.

Yesterday’s news about the Suse Appliance Program had me grinning all morning long… and I just had to forward what my co-worker wrote: Billy Marshall, CEO, rPath (2006): The Standard OS is Virtually Gone Nat Friedman, CTO, Novell (2008): The Standalone OS is Dead Indeed, we’re flattered. Yes, indeed!

Tenho um grande orgulho em apresentar o lançamento do Windmill Appliance! Construido com a tecnologia inovadora da rPath, está disponível para download como um ISO assim como também uma imagem VMWare para a sua alegria. "Mas para que exatamente serve este windmill appliance?", você pergunta. Que bom que você perguntou… O Windmill é um framework de testes em AJAX para interfaces web de código livre. Pelos últimos meses eu tenho usado e abusado deste software para estar apropriadamente a interface web de um de nossos produtos, e os resultados tem sido muito agradaveis.