Sage - RSS Aggregation

Started using Sage, a plugin for Firefox, for RSS feed aggregation. That's only for my Windows desktop - under Linux I'm still deciding between Blam! and Liferea.

tech/windows | 11 May 2005 | #

RHEL Purchase

So a project I worked on about 4 years ago resurfaced in the past week - the customer needed a new deployment and wanted us to do it for them.

The install had been running on Red Hat 7.2, but given the lack of security updates I suggested we move it to the closest enterprise-supported equivalent - Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4.0

That's when the problems began.

Finding an Australian distributor that could get us the software in reasonable timeframe at a not-too-greatly-inflated price is not easy. Adding to that the slow approval mechanism of purchase requests and invoices, means that it's going to be the end of next week before I get the shrink-wrap in my hands.

If RHEL were freely downloadable I'd slurp a copy, and start validating our software while I waited for the shrink-wrap box. Alas it isn't, so my only choice is to go to a friendly local supplier who re-badge RHEL (following Red Hat's artwork removal guidelines to make it all legit) and use that while I wait for the "official" version to arrive.

Hoping to start the validation process tomorrow. In the mean-time, I'm testing our application against Hoary :-)

tech/linux | 11 May 2005 | #