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small announcement: Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2011

cyco — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 21:33:47 +0000

This weekend we did run a booth at Chemnitzer Linuxtage. As always, it was a joy to be at this event. We had great discussions and talks with guests and exhibitors, I also enjoyed a small number of lectures. The booth did run well, beside some quirks. Some pictures can be found here.

Debian 6.0 ‘squeeze’ released

cyco — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 00:18:35 +0000

Our baby was release just some moments ago. Many thanks to all who made this happen, I’m very proud!
Also many thanks to the release team, ftpmaster, cd people, www-team, press folks and all who worked so hard today instead of having release party, to make it real.

New server hardware for svn.kvirc.de

cyco — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:15:12 +0000

Maybe some of you have noticed, svn.kvirc.de was running under heavy load recently while it was smashed by search engine crawlers.

First we tried to tweak the trac installation, which caused the heavy load, when running the spiders trough. But it turned out, that this doesn’t has the effect to recover the situation, since the trac tree is growing (with the svn tree and revisions). So the spiders have more to crawle and taking more resources away.

We checked our relations and we where lucky to find with waaf.net a sponsor for new server hardware.

Some features of our new ProLiant DL360 server we baptized ‘baikonur‘:

* Dual Core Processor
* 2 GB RAM
* Compaq Smart Array Raid Controller
* 2x 72.8 GB IBM Ultra3 10K
* 2x Gigabit Ethernet
* Integrated Lights Out

The migration was quite relaxed. svn.kvirc.de is a virtual maschine, so we did setup the new host and proudly racked it up at the bandnew hosting center of TMT Teleservice as first (sponsored) customer. The last step was to migrate the system over to the new host and change the DNS records. The outage was something about 5-10 minutes basically caused by the TTL of 600.

Looking into the Load Average I think we have enought resources for a couple of more svn revisions and search engine spiders.

That’s all, happy ircing, and happy developing.

10th Chemnitz Linux Days

cyco — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:01:08 +0000

Like Meike already told, it was a nice event, like always. IMHO it’s based on the good balance of community and a small amount of business booth and of course the visitors.
This year we was apart the Sidux Project. Didn’t heared about (much) before, but their slogan is Hot & Spicy! Maybe ‘hot’, cause it’s based on Debian unstable. Hopefully you won’t get tears if it’s too spicy. Anyways … if you want, you could take a look. My opinion is, this would be a good case for a Custom Debian Distribution, if there would be a requirement for it. But he.. everybody is free to do, what ever he want, if nobody else is restricted.
The talks I attended was in most cases excellent, some of them was funny … only one of them did really suck. Desktop Virtualision … after the talk, my question if there could anything else virtualized then the OS from Redmond, was answered with ‘Unfortunetly only XP’ … how lovely!