While I was learning how to use Mercurial in order to contribute to the Mozilla platform, I became addicted to it, and with the migration tools now I have access to my repositories with full history on the go, without need of permanent connection to the CVS or SVN server. I can even do...

Development, Open Source

The later announcement of the Novell/Microsoft partnership is another example of the attacks that Red Hat is facing, the previous one was from Oracle . Red Hat is the current leader in the commercial Linux server market, and Novell is a very distant second. This is just Novell trying...

Linux, Open Source, On the Net

Dirvish package has been approved and is now part of Fedora Extras .

Linux, Open Source

Soon, the Mono runtime will have a Portability Layer or what I call the Welcome Bad Coders Layer . This is not the correct way to do things, fix the application if you have those problems and do not hack the runtime to allow bad coding practices. What will we see next?, a new patch to the...

Development, Open Source

Now is the Dirvish turn to be packaged . Dirvish is a relly easy to use tool to create disk based rotating network backups.

Linux, Open Source