Mandriva
rsec, msec, sectool.. hmmm… I smell opportunities
So I was approached by Eugeni, one of my former fellows at Mandriva, today about some collaboration in regards to Mandriva’s msec and my way-back-when fork for Annvix, rsec. He wrote a blog post about msec’s future and plans detailing the things he wants to do with msec in the future. So he dropped me [...]
Never a dull moment with Mandriva…
Well, today is my last day and so without much fanfare I say “adieu” to Mandriva. As the title indicates, never a dull moment. You get spoiled with new stuff, then have to go back and re-setup old stuff. Part of this switch for Oden is that the build system goes with him, but of [...]
Leaving Mandriva… again
Well, that cat is out of the bag now (finally). As noted here: http://blog.mandriva.com/2009/01/23/goodbye-vincent-welcome-back-oden/ I am leaving Mandriva after almost 9 years. And I quote: After nearly 9 years, Vincent Danen will be leaving Mandriva at the end of this month. Again we would like to thank him for his commitment and endeavour whilst at [...]
Mandriva update statistics
Some statistics, before I go on holidays until the end of the year. Looking at bugfix updates, we’ve seen a steady increase since I’ve kept track (going back to 1999, although I think in 1999 it was only a half-year of doing updates). 1999: 13 2000: 24 2001: 25 2002: 27 2003: 44 2004: 64 [...]
Sad metrics on community decline
I’ve been saying it for a while, but never really put hard evidence to it. Our community has declined and by the numbers I’ll produce, I’m going to say it declined a lot. I just wrote a quick shell script to parse the number of messages posted to each given list (cooker, expert, and newbie) [...]
Do we matter?
A good friend of mine has over the last little while been feeding me some really great books that have made me re-evaluate a lot of things. The first book is “PresentationZen” (ISBN: 978-0-321-52565-9) which gives some really great ideas regarding presentation design and delivery of presentations. While it primarily focuses on design pertaining to [...]