Re: [PLUG] Fwd: PLUG N: "Hacking FOSSCON"... follow-up

JP, thanks for summarizing the meetings, I'm not sure about others but I appreciate it. I wish I could have been there last night.

Julien M.

Oh, I forgot. I talked about Redmine, that I'm trying to get to use at
work, and that I found trying to get Ruby & Rails to work on CentOS-5.x
was a giant mess. There are better ways though, like:

http://www.turnkeylinux.org/redmine
    = 7 flavors (more-or-less) of VMs

http://bitnami.com/stack/redmine
    = a VM (but really hazy on details of said VM)
    = Or a monolithic "just stick it all in /opt/" installer

I had previously missed the monolithic installer. With THAT I had
Redmine installed on CentOS-5 in ~10 minutes, though granted it's
controlled a bit different than usual. E.g.:
http://wiki.bitnami.com/Native_Installers_Quick_Start_Guide#How_can_I_create_a_full_backup_of_a_Stack.3f
http://wiki.bitnami.com/Native_Installers_Quick_Start_Guide#How_can_I_start_or_stop_the_servers.3f

(Also, a tool Jonathan likes: http://www.turnkeylinux.org/etherpad)

-------- Original Message --------

Thanks to Jonathan for an interesting case study and discussion on the
implications of the proliferation of forking that is so popular and easy
with modern DRCS and , e.g., git-hub.

We also had some interesting discussions before, during and after the
talk, and in particular the following came up:

http://www.startssl.com/?app=1
    " StartSSL Free (Class 1) certificates are domain or email validated"

http://www.codecademy.com/
    "Learn to code interactively, for free" (esp. for kids)

https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm
    "Effing Package Management...helps you build packages quickly and
easily (Packages like RPM and DEB formats)"

Thanks,
JP
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