Open Source Musing by Jeff Sheltren of the OSU Open Source Lab

Lance and I were enjoying a glass of wine at Enoteca on Friday evening and noticed that our phones were connected via 3G. I'm also now getting 3G reception at my house and other spots around town -- yay for faster web/email on the jeebus phone!

I've built openldap 2.4 packages for EL4 and EL5. Since many base packages link against openldap, I include an appropriate compat-openldap package for each --
EL5 has 2.3.27, and EL4 has 2.2.13. That way, all of the base packages which link against openldap will still work, but you can run the newer version of slapd.

The 2.4 release announcement outlines many of the features and can be found here:
http://www.openldap.org/software/release/announce.html

The packages/spec files can be found here:
http://staff.osuosl.org/~jeff/openldap/

Last week at OSCON was pretty special for everyone here at the OSU Open Source Lab. We were recognized by both SourceForge and Google in various talks which mentioned how important the OSUOSL is in supporting open source projects and communities. We provide hosting for projects that are typically larger and more demanding than what SourceForge, Google Code, and others tend to cater to. It's nice to be recognized for what we are doing, and I feel that we compliment services like SourceForge and Google Code very well.

I spent the last two days meeting with a great group of people from the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. They will be at OSCON in Portland next week and were able to extend their trip a bit in order to come down to the Oregon State University Open Source Lab for a visit.

We've been pushing the capacity of our current FTP disk arrays for quite some time now. Luckily, we were able to get enough funding to purchase new arrays for our three FTP servers. This will double our current disk space from 3TB each server up to 6TB.

I started providing Drupal training to Oregon State University faculty and staff earlier this year. Currently, there are two different sessions: an author session and an administrator session. The author session concentrates mainly on creating and editing content, while the admin session looks more into the administrative configuration of Drupal and even touches on custom content types.

All of the training materials are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License, and are available here:
http://osuosl.org/training/drupal/

I recently setup a Fedora 9 system to test some things out. I've run the alpha/beta/rc in a virtual machine, but I happened to have an extra machine sitting around and decided to install F9 there to see how it went. The install was pretty smooth; I did a network install from a local mirror which is pretty much how I've always installed Fedora. Pulling the packages down over a gigabit link is always nice :)

I've built updated cfengine 2.2.6 packages for el4 and el5. You can find them in the usual spot:
http://sheltren.com/downloads/cfengine/testing/

The same package has been built for Fedora development/rawhide and should be available there soon.

Some bug fixes as well as support for detecting xen hosts/guests is now included. Let me know if you have any problems!

Ubuntu 8.04 was just released. We're having fun watching the bandwidth graphs. See the graph below and try to figure out when they made the release announcement...

I should note that is just the traffic coming out of our FTP server here in Corvallis. We also have two remote FTP mirrors in Chicago and Atlanta which are each pushing ~350Mbit/sec.

Update: Here's an image showing each of our three FTP mirrors and how much traffic they are each pushing.

Yesterday I was up in Portland at the InnoTech conference to give a "lightning talk" on the OSU Open Source Lab. It was a lot of fun to meet a lot of people I've been in contact with on the phone or via email and put a face to a name. There's a great group of people in the Portland area involved with Open Source, and I really need to get up there more often to see some of them!