Open Source @ TalkBMC

Tom Bishop - In the Mind of a CTO

In the Mind of a CTO: Podcast interview with Tom Bishop, chief technology officer for BMC Software, Inc.

What is a producer's blog anyway?

 

Steve Carl and whurley (William Hurley) - Open Source is a Journey

Open Source is a Journey - Podcast interview with Steve Carl, manager of R&D Open Systems Support and whurley (William Hurley), Chief Architect, Open Source Strategy at BMC Software, Inc.

Ron Michael - Using Open Source as the Glue

Using Open Source as the Glue: Podcast interview with Ron Michael, lead platform administrator for R&D support at BMC Software, Inc.

William Hurley - Doing Open Source Right

Podcast interview with whurley (William Hurley), Chief Architect, Open Source Strategy at BMC Software, Inc.

Blog Archive

 

No

No

Open-source does not equal Linux

Open-source does not equal Linux

a day without open source

a day without open source

Viruses on linux

Viruses on linux

VMLMAT Handles Requests

BMC R&D has a tool that fills the niche. Developers and QA users both use its features to support their needs.

The future of VMLMAT is Open

Literally. Where the VMLMAT tool goes, and what it does going forward are defined by the people that use it, just as what it is so far was defined by the needs of the people that created it.

Mint 6 RC1

Looking at the release candidate of Mint 6 to see how well it works as an enterprise desktop.

Saving Capital Money on Disk Space with VMLMAT

Fixed Block Architecture, Count Key Data, Lions, Tigers, and Bears

The "Law of Unintended Consequences" is Not Always Bad to You

VMLMAT (http://vmlmat.wiki.sourceforge.net/) comes in handy for something it was never originally intended for

Beyond Linux cloning, what's in it for DR?

Moving IT management into the hands of users requires more robotic processes.

Mainframe Linux, and BMC's new Open Source tool, VMLMAT

Introducing a new Open Source tool from BMC, available at Sourceforge, for managing Linux guests under VM on the mainframe.

More GFS based CentOS cluster HOW-TO

Helpful information for running a CentOS Cluster continued

Mint 5 Revision 1

Minor revision to a great Distro

Ch-ch-changes

Moves and grooves

The Myth of Device Diversity

Enterprises are standardizing on devices at a time when the rest of the wireless world is doing just the opposite.

OpenSUSE 11 GA

OpenSUSE 11 General Availability as an ELD, Now with secret sauce

The XO-1, the iPhone, and Zero

The little green laptop that could

Cronus and Zeus

The battle of Titans continues....

Web Slinging Mainframe

An introduction to a short web application for mainframers.

More Mepis

Mike P writes in with answers and concerns regarding "Off Label Mepis 7"

Off-Label Mepis 7

Looking at Mepis 7 through Enterprise Linux Desktop Eyes

Bug 431253

The chief NAS blaster of R&D Support gets bugged about the NFS Create problem

Add the "open source candidate" poll to your blog or website

The only price is participation.

An Introduction to "Open for Mainframe"

About me and why I'm writing this blog.

a new home page test 3

 

Kernel Hackage

The Chief R&D Support NAS Basher takes a deep dive into kernel code to fix our CentOS cluster for HP-UX clients

YAB

I must be crazy. Yet Another Blog: "On Being Open", at the Open Managment Consortium new website.

Vacation Strikes Again

Gone till January, 2008

Linux Mint 4.0 as Enterprise Laptop

A look at the Ubuntu 7.10 based newly minted version of Linux for use as my daily use system

Open Source @ TalkBMC

Conversations on TalkBMC tagged with open source, linux, or gnu

CentOS 5 HA Cluster Speeds and Feeds

The good, the bad, and the trivia of the certification of the CentOS 5 HA cluster

CentOS 5 NAS Cluster

Update on replacing the Tru64 NAS server with Linux High Availability (HA) CentOS 5 server

BMC UserWorld, Vancouver 2007

Day one at BMC UserWorld, and how BSM applies to things other than a production shop.

Mint, Ubuntu, and OpenSUSE

Multiple Distros on multiple machines to test Linux for the Enterprise Desktop continues

Testing Evolution on Multiple Distros

Last weeks "failed" test plan now leads to a new test plan. This time, more platforms are included to help isolate Evolution issues from Distro issues.

OpenOffice gets a push!

New developments in OpenOffice

Evolution 2.10.3 under PCLinuxOS 2007

A week of using PCLinuxOS as the main office desktop and the office "Killer App"

If you like it, then that is good

If you like it, then that is good

Two rights make a ... right?

Two rights make a ... right?

I agree. Being Open IS better.

I agree. Being Open IS better.

The Secret Linux Agenda

Now it can be told for the first time anywhere: the secret agenda of the Linux community is... is... ahhhhhggg! They got me..... Its all going dark.... sinking....

Access Linux with GUI

Full graphical remote access to Linux desktops

Another Linux Unsupported Printer Printing Tip

Turning the printing problem around from the last time: Printing from MS Windows to a Linux system, where Linux does not support the printer

Hello and welcome!

An brief introduction to Nitin's blog.

Open Source Management Systems

Open Source Management Systems

Re: Managing In The Open

Hear that faint crowd noise like you're one block away from a heavy-weight boxing match that just ended in round one with some chump taking a dive? That would be your customers trying to get your attention.

Vacation, Week Two

Back to work next week. Meantime a few observations about the BMC open world from this (vacation) side of it

A World Of Linux

Well, it’s that time again, time for LinuxWorld San Francisco.

Fedora 7 for the office

A companion to the Fedora 7 as a home Linux blog

Stopping the NFS mystery

Clarifying the exact nature of the Tru64 NAS server issue we and others have had, and the short term solution to it

"Who Do You Serve and Who Do You Trust?"

A sequel of sorts

The New Weblog, Same as the Old Weblog, Only Different

Experimenting with a new Weblog to talk about Linux at home

Oracle And Open Source

 

You miss the KHTML developers' intent

You miss the KHTML developers' intent

NAS Redeaux: Q&A

Reader of the blog writes in to ask why. Film at 11.

Huh?

Huh?

Linus Torvalds on GPLv3

Linus Torvalds on GPLv3

No Penguins On Today’s Safari?

 

It's called Konqueror

It's called Konqueror

The Death Of A Software License

 

Camino

Camino

That's pushing it...

That's pushing it...

Well....

Well....

Apple and Open Source Zen

Apple and Open Source Zen

Just another OSS developer's perspective...

Just another OSS developer's perspective...

Death? Hah!

Death? Hah!

DRM does matter to many open source developers

DRM does matter to many open source developers

NAS Redeaux: Hardware

Rethinking the hardware for better supportability, but still maintaining a reasonable cost

The Bugatti Principle

 

Mint 3.0 GA, Fedora 7 LiveCD GA

A state of the state of each release.

Re: Scalability Reality

Re: Scalability Reality

Fedora 7 LiveCD Beta

Looking at Fedora 7's Beta LiveCD and making inevitable comparisons

Linux Hostility

Pondering Computer Religion

automobiles vs. software

automobiles vs. software

Color Theory

Linux and Personal Preferences

Three Reasons Microsoft Shareholders Need Open Source

 

Egoless Programming and Open Source

Meeting the needs of the creator

no open source?

no open source?

A Day Without Open Source

 

Open source

Open source

Seven Reasons Microsoft Loves Open Source

 

and there's more

and there's more

Good bye NAS, Tivo and VOD

Good bye NAS, Tivo and VOD

Getting Started with DITA

A brief overview for a couple of fellow Austin writers who have asked me recently how and where to get started with DITA.

A day w/o Open Source

A day w/o Open Source

The Internet wouldn't work at all

The Internet wouldn't work at all

Oh Noes the Tubes are not working

Oh Noes the Tubes are not working

MSN can't load balance without linux

MSN can't load balance without linux

Total Collapse

Total Collapse

Lab Results

You had me at “Toronto”

Debunking the crap

Debunking the crap

Giving back

Contributing in ones own way, to the community. In this case, the Open Source community

once you stop making money off it...

once you stop making money off it...

A death wish is not love

A death wish is not love

Comments

Comments

Response

Response

7 Things to tell them from me.

7 Things to tell them from me.

good analysis

good analysis

Love != Support

Love != Support

incomplete assignment: please redo and have your parents sign

incomplete assignment: please redo and have your parents sign

I'll have to start the "conversation" with refutation

I'll have to start the "conversation" with refutation

Open source threat

Open source threat

Linux not the threat; the GNU GPL is

Linux not the threat; the GNU GPL is

http://ian.sundermedia.com

http://ian.sundermedia.com

Linux

Linux

Monster Mash Version 2.0

or, in Open Source project numbering, 0.2. Maybe even 0.1.1. 0.1.0.1? In any case, with Ubuntu 7.04 GA, I do another Mint 2.2 / Ubuntu 7.04 mash

Open Source Is Inevitable

Open Source Is Inevitable

Re: Human Nature Avoidable?

Re: Human Nature Avoidable?

On being a resident of opensville

Since I can't wait to see how whurley answers the questions raised by his first post, I can't help but think out loud about some of the things it means to be a near resident of opensville.

laissez faire and Darwinism

laissez faire and Darwinism

Doing the Monster Mash

Mix and Match Linux

What is Open Source?

The power and the endurance of open source, in all it's various meanings

Doing Open Source right

The whurley is a circle, without a beginning, and nobody knows where he'll really end...up
With apologies to David Merricks's Carnival

openSUSE 10.2 GA / Linux Mint 2.0

Looking at 10.2 and asking if it is ready as Enterprise Desktop. Then realizing that is the wrong question for the computer at hand, and installing Linux Mint 2.0.

DITA from the trenches

Information Architect from IBM, Kristin Thomas, presented to the Central Texas DITA User's Group meeting last week, and here are my notes.

Google Office Beta

You'd have thought I knew what and when Google was planning when I last posted here.

Ubuntu and Evolution 2.6.1 / MS Exchange 2003

Re-installing Ubuntu and testing it's Evolution

Ubuntu and Kubuntu back to back

And on ancient hardware to boot...

Open Conversations

 

Codeweavers Crossover Office 5.03

New release fixes OpenSUSE 10.1 and FC5 menus

More Linux in the Data Center

Pondering the pull thru of increased Linux presence in the Data Center

100-Dollar Laptop: UN Secretary General’s Office shouldn’t be used for exploiting the poor

100-Dollar Laptop: UN Secretary General’s Office shouldn’t be used for exploiting the poor

NAS Server Testing, Part 6: Network Tracing

The last part of the NAS server testing articles (at least for now), looking at using Ethereal as a tool to trace a problem.

A trip report from SXSWi 2003

Let's jump into the wayback machine to 2003 for a walk down SXSWi memory lane

NAS Server testing, Intro

Introduction to a series of articles about how we go about testing our NAS servers for "usage certification" in R&D Support

Nexenta OS appears

Nexenta: Open Solaris meets Debian

Commoditization of hardware

How Off The Shelf (OTS) hardware is changing the way we buy and deploy computers

A busy news week

News about OpenOffice, AJAX, and the future of PC's and the Internet

Trials and Tribulations of Evolution

Outline of the recent problems with Evolution email client, and some SUSE 10 notes

Another Crossroad

The 2.4/2.6 kernel crossroad, plus many other happenings

Steve Carl