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Video: Package management and creation in Gentoo Linux | Striving for greatness
https://dberkholz.com/2013/02/12/video-package-management-and-creation-in-gentoo-linux
The life and times of a Gentoo developer and leader. Video: Package management and creation in Gentoo Linux. As one of my four talks. I gave one on Gentoo titled “Package management and creation in Gentoo Linux.” The basic idea was, what could packagers and developers of other, non-Gentoo distros. As we’ve advanced through EAPIs (Ebuild APIs), starting at 16:39. If you click through. To YouTube, the larger (but not fullscreen) version seems to be the easiest to read. Written by Donnie Berkholz. OSCON mee...
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Get paid to write open-source software this summer | Striving for greatness
https://dberkholz.com/2013/05/01/get-paid-to-write-open-source-software-this-summer
The life and times of a Gentoo developer and leader. Get paid to write open-source software this summer. If you’re a university student, time is running out! You could get paid to hack on Gentoo or other open-source software this summer, but you’ve gotta act now. The deadline to apply for the Google Summer of Code. If this sounds like your dream come true, you can find some Gentoo project ideas here. And Gentoo’s GSoC homepage here. For non-Gentoo projects, you can scan through the GSoC website. The ones...
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[Gentoo] Setting up a diskless cluster, volume 1 | Striving for greatness
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The life and times of a Gentoo developer and leader. Gentoo] Setting up a diskless cluster, volume 1. I’ll be putting together a small, diskless, mixed-node Gentoo cluster this week and hopefully detailing my progress on here. I recently got some interesting ideas from a fellow dev, Christian Zoffoli, on the gentoo-cluster mailing list. He had a setup something like this:. What it should do:. Start PXE — look for DHCP, TFTP servers. Download the kernel and a uclibc initrd. Start a full Gentoo system.
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Gentoo needs focus to stay relevant | Striving for greatness
https://dberkholz.com/2015/01/13/gentoo-needs-focus-to-stay-relevant
The life and times of a Gentoo developer and leader. Gentoo needs focus to stay relevant. After nearly 12 years. Working on Gentoo and hearing blathering about how “Gentoo is about choice” and “Gentoo is a metadistribution,” I’ve come to a conclusion to where we need to go if we want to remain viable as a Linux distribution. More recently, I attempted the same on a Mac. Same result a total nightmare if you aren’t building for Mac or iOS. Frankly, I’ve never come across as easy of a dev environment ...
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OSCON meetups: FLOSS lunch, RedMonk beer | Striving for greatness
https://dberkholz.com/2013/07/17/oscon-meetups-floss-lunch-redmonk-beer
The life and times of a Gentoo developer and leader. OSCON meetups: FLOSS lunch, RedMonk beer. It’s been a few years. But I used to have an OSCON. Tradition of getting a bunch of interesting people together for lunch, from a variety of free-software and open-source communities. This year I’m suggesting we do the same, on Wednesday of OSCON week. Let me know in the comments or via email if you’re interested. 2013/07/19): Beers will begin around 9:30pm Wednesday at Bailey’s Taproom. July 17, 2013 at 4:32 pm.
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How to give a great talk, the lazy way | Striving for greatness
https://dberkholz.com/2015/04/20/how-to-give-a-great-talk-the-lazy-way
The life and times of a Gentoo developer and leader. How to give a great talk, the lazy way. Got a talk coming up? Want it to go well? Here’s some starting points. I give a lot of talks. Often I’m paid to give them, and I regularly get very high ratings or even awards. But every time I listen to people speaking in public for the first time, or maybe the first few times, I think of some very easy. Ways for them to vastly improve. The last bit is the key. What I put on my notes is the main points. Starting...
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3 days left to apply for the Google Summer of Code | Striving for greatness
https://dberkholz.com/2014/03/18/3-days-left-to-apply-for-the-google-summer-of-code-2
The life and times of a Gentoo developer and leader. 3 days left to apply for the Google Summer of Code. Students, this Friday at 1900 UTC is the deadline to apply for this year’s GSoC. It’s an awesome program that pays you to work on open-source projects for a summer (where you = a university/college student). It’s by no means too late, but start your application today. You can find more information on Gentoo’s projects here. Click on the Ideas page to get started; also see our application guidelines.
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Gentoo Linux and community consulting | Striving for greatness
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The life and times of a Gentoo developer and leader. Gentoo Linux and community consulting. For community-related consulting, please contact me. In my new position at 451 Research. As of April 2015). I am no longer providing consulting services for Gentoo Linux; here’s a list of Gentoo consultants. If you’re interested in the value my unparalleled expertise in Gentoo Linux and in open-source communities. Can provide to your project, please contact me. What’s your problem. Negotiation with difficult people.
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Writing | Striving for greatness
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The life and times of a Gentoo developer and leader. I do freelance journalism and technical writing on Linux- and open-source-related topics with a focus on Gentoo Linux. Here is some of my work:. The state of Gentoo. Google’s Summer of Code: Past and future. Gentoo: New release, “new” leadership. Distributions in the Summer of Code. Is Gentoo in crisis? Development Gentoo for developers. Who made Gentoo Linux, and when? A report from OSCON 2007. Package management in Gentoo Linux. Welcome to my world!
