Last weekend Dennis M. Ritchie, creator of the C Programming Language, the UNIX Operating System, The Plan 9 Operating System and many other key contributions to computing, passed away due an extended illness. I learned about it yesterday trough Rob Pike, former dmr’s colleague and friend. I’m writing this post to honor him and his [...]
Compute clusters for Debian development and building – final report Summary ——- The goal of this project was intended to have Eucalyptus cloud to support ARM images so it allows Debian developers and users to be able to use such facility for taks such package building, software development (ie. Android) under a Debian pre-set image, [...]
Hello, this is the fourth report for the project. First, I’d like to apologize for being late, I took a short trip over the weekend and missed the deadline. This time I’ve good news for my project. As expected I’ve made the necesary changes to have Eucalyptus support ARM images. The approach was extending and [...]
Hello, this is the 2nd report regarding my project. I’ll offer a brief summary of how are we doing and then the details, so you don’t have to read everything at all. I have to start saying that over the last two weeks I made a lot of progress on the project. The most important [...]
Hello, this is the official project report for the Debian GSoC admins and everyone. It’s been few days since the official coding phase started. Most of the time I’ve been figuring out the details regarding integration of non-x86 images to the Eucalyptus IaaS and working on the ARM image, as you’ll learn later. I’m also [...]
Hi, been offline for a while and now after my mid-term exams I’m glad to tell that I’ll be working on this year’s GSoC project called: “Compute Clusters Integration for Debian Development and Building”. The main idea for this project is to give Debian developers and downstream developers a set of tools for helping them [...]
For some time ago I’ve been pondering about this question. As long as GSoC 2009 is about to start and people are looking for project ideas, I’m posting here a very preliminar draft of my findings and an idea for a posible software project. It’s pretty written on-the-fly while I’ve managed to have some minutes [...]
Often I happen to come with some pretty crazy ideas about anything in life. That’s me. Some of them may work, that’s why I adventure to share them with the world. Working with computers, software in particular, for almost 12 years have brought interesting views regarding life. For the past 3 years I’ve progressively improved [...]
Last night I’ve been recalling how many debconfs I’ve already missed and this got me thinking about how long I’ve been a bit off the records on my Debian involvement. Many things have happened in the last couple of years, many for the good. I’ve started a business and learned a lot about entrepreneurship, resumed [...]
Se aproximaba el final del año 97 u 98 cuando el encargado de coordinación me ofreció pasar a formar parte del grupo de operadores OpenVMS en la BVL/CAVALI. Mis compañeros en TdP me decian que no aceptara, que ahi estaba bien. De hecho, ya estaba mas adaptado y la gente me apreciaba, intuyo que además [...]