Marek Mahut

I find Matt Asay’s new article about Mark Murphy’s analyzes on Oracle enterprise linux very interesting, quoting part of the article.

Oracle has failed in its attempt to enter the Linux market. Our recent survey of Oracle database customers reveals that only 1 out of 32 customers currently uses Oracle Unbreakable Linux. This one customer also [...]

Fedora 10 is out! GET IT NOW! Check what’s new.

Interesting report from pingdom about uptime of Linux ditros’ homepage (but also Apple and Microsoft). I’m more than happy to see Fedora and Red Hat taking leading positions in this benchmark.

If you are using clustered service with kerberos, you may want to merge hostnames keytab files to one for simple distribution.

Create host and service principals.

kadmin: addprinc -randkey host/node1.corp.intranet.lan
kadmin: addprinc -randkey host/node2.corp.intranet.lan
kadmin: addprinc -randkey host/node3.corp.intranet.lan
kadmin: addprinc -randkey host/node4.corp.intranet.lan
kadmin: addprinc -randkey host/node5.corp.intranet.lan
kadmin: addprinc -randkey host/node6.corp.intranet.lan
kadmin: addprinc -randkey host/node7.corp.intranet.lan
kadmin: addprinc [...]

Congratulation to my ex-CEO, Matthew Szulik, for his Ernst & Young National Winner for Entrepreneur of the Year 2008 Award. Matthew’s acceptance speech.

Mike McGrath, the Fedora infrastructure lead, made an awesome presentation on puppet and how to use it. Slides and audio record are posted at http://mmcgrath.fedorapeople.org/puppet/.

I’d like to thank all attendees! It was really one of the best conference I’ve been, great talks, great people, great hackfasts. I hope we will have the luck to make another FUDCon in Brno in the future happen.

I can feel the excitement in the streets of this small city. Only in few days an enormous event will take place here. Yes, I’m writing about FUDCon! You can join even if you missed the registration. Flick FUDCon Brno channel is ready too. See you there!

Photos from solar eclipse observation party at Cerova has been posted on my flickr account! Enjoy!
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We ran Fedora 9 with USRP to operate the radio-telescope. Great success!
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Let me invite you all to FUDCon that will take place in Brno during September 5 – 7, 2008. You will have chance to participate to hack-fest as well to various presentations: func, FirstAidKit, Transifex, SecurityAudit, Fedora Astronomy and much more! Visit https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConBrno2008 for more information.