This week's TechMail is A Mandriva user kicks around Fedora Core 10: How does it compare? (not the title I chose, but I guess my editor figured it needed my "flare"). Basically talks about my first impressions of using Fedora 10, considering I've more or less exclusively used Mandriva for …

This week's TechMail is Check out subversion repositories with ViewVC which is pretty much just about installing and configuring the ViewVC web-based tool to view subversion repositories (works with cvs too).

Well, technically speaking, I guess this is a bit of a downgrade. But, since I'm not longer using Mandriva and need to get used to Red Hat products (Fedora, RHEL, etc.), CentOS makes sense for upgrading my internal server to. It was also a long week, so I goofed a …

Well, I took my first trip to the USA, ever, this week and it was down to Raleigh, NC, for orientation with Red Hat. I'd like to say it was an experience (meaning the trip), but it wasn't... I was mostly fighting too hard to stay awake so it all …

This week's TechMail is: Get started with the security tool OSSEC, a quick run-down of what OSSEC is and how to use it. It's a pretty big "package", so I couldn't cover everything, just a single-server-use scenario which I think is what the majority of people would use it for …

I better post this before I forget about it. One of the issues I had today was getting corp3/x86_64 installed in a chroot with Mandriva 2009.0 as the host. Of course, the db4 version had changed, so I had to take advantage of some conversion tools. urpmi is …

Well, today is my last day and so without much fanfare I say "adieu" to Mandriva.

As the title indicates, never a dull moment. You get spoiled with new stuff, then have to go back and re-setup old stuff. Part of this switch for Oden is that the build system …

This week's TechMail is VMware Server 2.0 offers handy new upgrades which takes a look at the new(ish) VMware Server 2.0. When I wrote it, it was pretty much the first time I've looked at VMware Server for a while... it made a decent alternative to VMware …

So, I've gotten quite a few emails about what I'm going to be up to, so to save myself having to type the same thing over and over, here's the lowdown.

I'll be hanging out with Adam for two days in February... you can see where he's going to be …

Well, that cat is out of the bag now (finally). As noted here:

http://blog.mandriva.com/2009/01/23/goodbye-vincent-welcome-back-oden/

I am leaving Mandriva after almost 9 years. And I quote:

After nearly 9 years, Vincent Danen will be leaving Mandriva at the end of this month. Again we …