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svn changelist tutorial
It is not unusual that I’ve come upon the situation where I’m working over a local Subversion working copy and I wanted to commit bits of what I’ve already baked and ready to go. Odds are that there’s just one file not belonging to such changeset but usually it involves many files scattered around. This […]
FLISOL Puno
Past Saturday April 28 I attended to the FLISOL 2012 Puno hosted at the “Casa de la Cultura” in downtown Puno. It was a great experience to deliver a talk after a while, the second speech since I enrolled into the UCSP’s Computer and Engineering Faculty to get my Computer Science BS degree. Puno is […]
DebianPeru
Hello, this is just a quick post to announce some good news. Back in 2004 we’ve formed a local Debian group in Peru. We were active and spread the word country-wide. There were good times. As time passed and interests changed things slowed down. Past two weeks we are rebooting it. We’ll be working with […]
Dennis M. Ritchie aka dmr
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
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, […]
Compute Clusters Integration for Debian Development and Building – Report 4
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 […]
Compute Clusters Integration for Debian Development and Building – Report 2
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 […]
GSoC: Status report 01
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 […]
GSoC 2011: Compute Clusters Integration for Debian Development and Building
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 […]