I played with the OLPC for a little bit at the Fedora table at OLF this past weekend. The Sugar desktop environment works on the metaphor of circles. It took me a few minutes to figure them out, but as soon as I was pointed at the right button (a dot, of all things), I …
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#moosefs @smartfile – distributed, redundant file management (#olf2013 talk)
As promised, some follow-up to OLF. Chris from SmartFile gave a great talk at OLF this year on MooseFS and how SmartFile leverages it to handle their rapidly-growing storage infrastructure. Specifically, he compared it to Ceph and GlusterFS. In short, MooseFS provides better configurability than either Ceph or {{GlusterFS}}, runs with lower overhead, and provides …
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olf 2013 in the bag
This past weekend I went to OLF with my friend Peter and a fella who’s now more than an acquaintance, Nathaniel – one of the lead devs for FreeIPA at Red Hat. Got to go to a variety of great talks and sessions, met some awesome folks, and just generally enjoyed the geek weekend 🙂 I’ll be …
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