In the second installment of the Spotlight On series, we feature Red Hat engineer Richard Hughes on the fantastic new abstraction layer called PackageKit. PackageKit allows users to manage packages in a secure way using a cross-distro, cross-architecture API. This maintains a common set of GUI features, enabling the user to have a better session experience overall. For more information, visit www.packagekit.org.
Red Hat engineer Dan Williams demonstrates the shared networking capabilities of Fedora 10.
We here at Red Hat are pleased to bring you a brand new set of videos aimed at showing off the latest and greatest enhancements in our technologies–featuring the very people who helped create them in the first place. The “SPOTLIGHT ON” series highlights the ways in which collaboration drives innovation by looking at projects that have been improved by community input. In our first installment, we track down Red Hat’s own Karsten Wade and Stephen Smoogen from the University of New Mexico to talk about Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL), the Fedora-sourced repository of add-on packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. They discuss how EPEL is a tool for user-driven innovation that comes from and benefits enterprise customers with more stable code and lower business costs.
If you’ve ever watched a video from Red Hat Magazine, you’ve probably heard the soundtracks in the background. Whether it’s the remixable Birdsong video or one of our other interviews or overviews, the music we use is often created in-house by our soundscape specialist. Napoleon creates custom music and animations for various Red Hat projects, as well as commercial materials and custom beats, lyrics, and compositions. In his free time he enjoys sampling 70s soul records to create beats for local hip-hop artists. And now he’s here to share some of his work with you.
Everybody wants to be heard. Some of us have a rhythm to go along with it.
I was introduced to ccmixter a couple months ago and have been hooked ever since. It is a utopia of sound for music makers and mixers alike.
From acapellas and samples to remixes, ccmixter wants you to download, sample, cut-up, and share music of all types. Some artists post entire albums for the community to remix.
Best of all, it’s all licensed under Creative Commons so there’s no worries.
Check out my page of remixes.
If you create a remix and want to get in touch with Napoleon–or just have a question–feel free to leave a comment (or contact information) on this post.
You’ve seen him here before, but it’s been a while since he popped in for a visit. You can enjoy his earlier work here, here, here or here. (Or check out his entire RHM collection). Who is that masked man? It’s the Fedora Project’s Greg DeKoenigsberg. And who better to talk about this history of the Fedora than someone who has been involved nearly every step of the way…
Brian Stein and Perry Myers, part of the oVirt engineering team, continue their discussion and demonstration of oVirt. This time, they delve into the embedded hypervisor, showing how it can be quickly and statelessly accessed or a new node created. They also discuss virtualization technologies–KVM vs. Xen–and what direction oVirt will be taking, and why. » Read more
oVirt allows administrators to visualize what’s going on with their servers–whether they’re down the hall or entirely virtual. In addition to status checks, the tool allows easy management of virtualized space and computing resources. Listen as Hugh Brock and Perry Myers–both members of the engineering team that developed oVirt–discuss how it can help simplify IT organizations and reduce cost. Follow along as they demonstrate deploying and assigning hardware through oVirt’s graphical interface. » Read more
John Halamka, CIO of Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, was one of the keynote speakers at this summer’s Red Hat Summit. In this video, he explains how open source is critical to the healthcare industry and talks a little about his implanted RFID chip. Learn more about how Beth Israel saved $200,000 and reduced downtime to nearly zero.
One of the biggest pieces of news during the Red Hat Summit was the open sourcing of Red Hat Network code. The project, named Spacewalk, finally allowed developers and community members to participate openly in the improvement and expansion of Red Hat Network technologies. Spacewalk is the upstream free and open source systems management project that many had been waiting for. In this video, you’ll hear from the cross-functional team that brought Spacewalk to this point, and will help guide it in the future.
Joel Berman explains the ‘G’ part of the MRG offering–the grid. Watch as he demonstrates how the Amazon Cloud can be used to help complete resource-intensive tasks much more quickly.
