Archive for the 'Advocacy' Category

Open Sourcing FreshPorts

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

I am just back from OSCON.
While there, I attempted to incorporate some CSS patches into FreshPorts…. I failed.
It is time to Open Source FreshPorts. It uses PHP (website), Perl (message processing), and Python (cache). It’ll take me a while to get the infrastructure into place. I have servers suitable for this purpose. […]

Python, PostgreSQL, and LISTEN

Tuesday, August 1st, 2006

PostgreSQL is my database of choice. Any who has worked with commercial databases will find more in common with PostgreSQL than any other open source database.
I moved to PostgreSQL for the transactions, the stored procecdures, and the relational integrity Sure, other databases have begun to catch up, but they still don’t have the […]

Bacula 1.38.8 changes

Friday, April 14th, 2006

Folks!
Yes, I’m a big fan of Bacula. It’s a great backup solution. I recently became the port maintainer. I’d like to point out a few recent changes.
Please read /usr/ports/UPDATING with regards to rcNG scripts. You must now add entries to /etc/rc.conf or /etc/rc.conf.local to allow the Bacula daemons to start.
You must […]