Staffing for Medium and Large Size Businesses... In this article we discuss things to consider when you are starting to staff for a Medium to Large size Business. This is the final article in the series about staffing. Next week we will talk about choosing a pilot progress.
Friday, October 2, 2009 at 11:56PM Linux the Happy Penguin | Post a Comment | Permalink | Share Article In this weeks FLOSS Weekly found here Randall Schwartz and Jono Bacon interviewed "Mr. Linux" Linus Torvalds. They covered a lot of interesting stuff including last weeks scandal around his comment that the Linux Kernel is bloated. After listening to him describe in much more detail than I had see anywhere else what he meant it makes sense. Linus believes that the once thin and trim kernel is getting larger becuase it has to and not becuase anyone wants it to. The bloat he describes is around how things are secured which he doesn't seem to believe should be removed. He seemed to be hinting that he may be trying to find a way to make the kernel more effecient about how it does those types of calls. He also discusses that with his GIT project he has seen how other OSes do it and still believes that Linux is doing it better. Most of this is becuase of the lack of legacy software to work with. I think you will find the interview interesting and fun. It's less about the geeky kernel stuff and more about his history, what it's been like moving to the US, and the politics of and OpenSource life. The part about how and why Linux is open souce is really something all companies should think about.
I got an E-Mail this morning about the launch of a new site called MonitorForge. The sites focus is around the open source tools built for monitoring Servers and equipment. They are bragging about hosting 1700 projects. Some of note are the Nagios, Zenoss Core, Network Weather Map and MRTG. There are a lot of good tools out on this site. If you haven't tried any of these tools highly recommend you give at least a few a test run.
Friday, September 18, 2009 at 9:54AM Brian "Wags" Wagner | Post a Comment | Permalink | Share Article Brian "Wags" Wagner
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