Marek Mahut » open source

I’m going to FUDCon Zurich 2010

marek — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:51:14 +0000

I’m going to FUDCon Zurich 2010. See you there!

Videos from Red Hat Developer Conference 2009 available

marek — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:41:36 +0000

Thanks to Radek Vokal, you can watch video recordings of few presentations from Red Hat devconf 2009. Enjoy!

First amateur radio-astronomy detection in Slovak Republic

marek — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:34:33 +0000

First amateur radio astronomy detection of Cygnus A and the Hydrogen-line in Slovak Republic has been done with Fedora system using gnuradio software package.

More information on WavesFromSpace.org.

Linux Developers and Users Conference 2009 in Brno

marek — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:17:57 +0000

Red Hat Czech announced an open conference in Brno for all open source developers and users (yeah, sysadmins are also users). The list of presentations and workshops is growing and I already found some interested topics I’m looking forward to attend. Bookmark the link to its wiki page, more information will follow shortly.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DeveloperConference2009

Red Hat Czech Open House

marek — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:04:44 +0000

Red Hat Czech invites you to Open House event in Brno. Come and see how enterprise open source software is build – be a part of it! :)

How to disable USB Disk STANDBY mode

marek — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:06:34 +0000

Recently I bought an external USB Disk Seagate FreeAgent XTreme, but after some idle time, it spanned down. Take me a while to find out how to disable this standby mode. First install sdparm.

If you want to start the drive in standby:

sdparm –command=start /dev/sdb

To clean standby mode flag:

sdparm –clear STANDBY -6 /dev/sdb && sdparm -a /dev/sdb

VMware announces open source vmware viewer

marek — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:32:02 +0000

Wow! Even VMware understood the power of open source, they just announced open souce vmware client. Who will get it first into Fedora? ;)

Linux Defenders alive!

marek — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:58:18 +0000

Linux Defenders. Architected to eliminate poor quality patents and ensure that only high quality patents issue, the Linux Defenders program enables individuals and organizations to efficiently contribute to: “Defensive Publications” that codify ‘known’ inventions that have not previously been patented so that they can be brought to the attention of the patent office to ensure that later developed patent…

Lou Rosas’ bug report

marek — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:21:11 +0000

Bug 17063 PackageKit does not work at all is really a funny bug report Lou Rosas really know how to get the attention.

The open road: Red Hat “deeply undervalued,” Oracle Linux “has failed”

marek — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:56:14 +0000

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 commented that “support is terrible, it is difficult to get an answer to my problems, Oracle’s agents never understand my company.” The survey reflects a very low penetration rate in the 2-year period since Oracle unveiled Unbreakable Linux with much fanfare, including live penguins running around onstage with Larry Ellison. Resellers continue to characterize Unbreakable Linuxas a failure because Oracle ultimately cannot control the future direction of RedHat Enterprise Linux, upon which it is based.

While the Street has expected Unbreakable Linux to severely impact Red Hat, its failure ironically serves as a proof-point of the underlying defensibility of RedHat’s business model. In fact, in the two years since Oracle introduced Unbreakable Linux, Red Hat’s billings have grown at an average rate of 31%–representing clear market share gains.