The Economist on the Desktop Linux: Free is too expensive. An interesting reading.

To succeed on the desktop, Linux needs to penetrate the office. Unfortunately, there is no such thing as a single Linux to go up against Windows 7. What there is instead is a fragmented field of hundreds of different Linuxes, each with its own learning curve, skill set and maintenance needs. Even the top five distributions (Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Fedora, openSuSE and …

OpenShift recently introduced a new DIY cartridge which allows for execution of any HTTP server. Some nice features of TornadoWeb (like the auth modules) are not available when running as WSGI, as that doesn't permit ASYNC requests so I decided to update the past HOWTO documenting how to deploy it using the new DIY cartridge. Enjoy!

I've prepared a quick HOWTO on how to migrate a legacy NIS environment to FreeIPA (ldap/kerberos). I hope it will be useful to some: http://freeipa.org/page/NIS_accounts_migration_preserving_Passwords

I've published a little guide to the rhc command line tool, that is the command line tool (ruby gem) needed to deploy your apps on OpenShift. You can find it here: https://github.com/gfidente/openshift-rhc-quickstart

I've published a demo webapp for mobiles written using Flask and jQuery Mobile. The backend storage is MongoDB. The app allows you to check and edit a shopping lists from your mobile phone so that if your fellow file the list from home, you'll have it at your finger tips later, when at the mall!

This has been deployed on OpenShift which offers MongoDB instances for free, as well as support for any Python WSGI …