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Bongo Experimental Packages In rPath Repo

Well,

I remember I said to myself this year I will get the svn build for Bongo into the bongo repo on rPath. It has taken a awhile but I now have the 0.4 svn version available in the repository. I will also be creating a few VM's of the experimental new rPath 2 version of the Bongo appliance.

WARNING!!!!!!

The Web UI …

Foresight Linux Product Definitions

General rPath Foresight Linux

I have been working on the product definitions for Foresight Linux repositories which will help the different versions have a common set of details.

I will try to blog as much as possible about this so that everyone knows where I am at.

I am currently setting up a test definition on my playground repo so that I can …

Linux Live

General Bongo Linux

On Friday and Saturday I was lucky enough to have gone to Linux Live in Olympia London UK and work the stand with Alex. As Alex has blogged the show was very quiet and it seems the .org village was an afterthought to the organisers.

As Alex said in his blog http://www.alexhudson.com I think that there was not enough …

Over 7000 Downloads

General Bongo rPath VMware

This evening Stu Gott dropped a bombshell on me, not literally but it had a similar impact. The people at rPath have run a report on our little project and I was shocked to say the least when I found out that the Bongo appliance has been downloaded 0ver 7000 times. I seem to remember thinking this is a nice small …
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Vmware Server 2

General Developing Foresight Linux Personal Thoughts VMware

I have been running the release version of VMware Server 2 and I must say I am impressed. the only problems I had were with existing VM's and upgrading the tools on them. And also VM's that have open-vm-tools installed.

After updating the tools the systems all have been functioning just fine over the last few weeks and …

Looking to virtualise at home

General Foresight Linux Personal Thoughts VMware

Ever since vmware made ESXi a free download I have wanted to install and run it at home so I can P to V my systems at home. And save money on electricity. And before you ask I have looked at the Xen and Virtualbox and Kvm solutions but have found them not quite ready fro my prime time.

I had been running vmware server …

Busy Bees

General Developing Bongo rPath

Well it has been a while since the Bongo team has released a version and there is good reason for this.

Over the last few months since the release of 0.3.0 the developers have been rewriting a large proportion of the store code. Alex realised that the old one was not as efficient as it could be when there were large …