This Friday at SCaLE 9x in Los Angeles, CA there will be a special build an open source cloud day teaching users how to use technologies from Cloud.com, OpenStack, Opscode and Zenoss to deploy, configure, manage and monitor infrastructure-as-a-service using open source software. Here’s an overview of the program: “Build a Cloud Day” will be [...]
In celebration of System Administrator Appreciation Day I published a story at Linux.com called Open Source Toolchains for Systems Administrators, here is an excerpt: “Software developers are very familiar with toolchains, series of programs where the output of one program forms the input for the next. A free software example would be using the GNU [...]
This weekend I am in Atlanta at the Atlanta Linuxfest I was also able to sneak down to The Varsity for a hot dog (see the Varsity menu on the left, very heart healthy). I was honored that I was invited to speak and even more surprised to see over 80 people cramming into a [...]
