lefred

lefred

I am MySQL Community Manager for EMEA & APAC. I joined the MySQL Community Team in May 2016. I have been an OpenSource and MySQL consultant for more than 15 years. My favorite topics are High Availability and Performance.

Wanna test openERP on Fedora or CentOS ?

Hello, If you want to test the latest version of openERP (5.0.6) on Fedora 12 or CentOS 5, you can try the package available on inuits repo (some other packages for other projects will be available too) :-) Those packages are still in development, don't hesitate to send me feedback. How to setup the repository : edit /etc/yum.repos.d/inuits.repo with (for Fedora):
 [inuits]
 name=RPM Inuits repository Fedora $releasever
 baseurl=http://repo.inuits.be/fedora/$releasever/os/
 enabled=1
 gpgcheck=1
 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-inuits
Don't forget to import the GPG key (you can find it here
 rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY-inuits

Open Source et logiciels libres, l’entreprise en liberté ?

Today I was attending a conference in Mons (Belgium) from libre-tic about open source software, free (as freedom) the enterprise ? To be honest I was disappointed, the conference didn't achieve my expectations. (and I don't talk about the lack of WIFI or the massive use of windope vista) The majority of the speakers didn't convince me, they didn't really focus on the subject of "l'entreprise en liberté". We had examples of people using FLOSS to make business, to retrieve money from Europe but they don't contribute to the community and they even seem proud of it ! A nice initiative is intelli-n TV, even if they didn't know yet the FOSDEM, we invite them to it. Of course some speakers were great : - Robert Viseur talking about the licenses and the economical models - Fabien Pinckaers, CEO of OpenERP, explained his economical model and showed an amazing demo of his product (it's really time that I invest more time in it!) - the presentation of a company that contribute to the community of Alfresco with mailmanagement solution I was also interested about the presentation of TechnoCité form Gilles Betrand. The great idea was to ask to a radio animator (Cédric Godart) to animate the discussion, but to be honest there was not really a debate due to timing and interest of the presentations. Something I don't understand is how the organization selected the speakers, there was people from the South of France defending a nice open source product (lundi matin business) but that can't be used in Belgium. On logiciellibre.be there are 96 open source companies referenced and certainly many real players and not only users acting as a open source company. I was happy anyway too spend that day with Gildas and Alain.

ptxArchiver 0.2

for those that are using ptxArchiver, this is a new version. zipkid added the timestamp when the archiving is done on files (to not override them)

dstat and my.cnf

What a surprise, this week-end I received I very nice email asking me some help on the plugins I wrote for dstat. I wrote them more then 2 years ago while listening to Linus Torvalds in Cambridge :) The request was to enable the read of the password and user from the my.cnf file instead of exporting them in environment variables. Here are the patch for the release 7.x (fedora) and 6.x (centos 5.3) The patch is only for one of the plugin, but it's easy to apply it to all of them.

As MySQL Community Manager, I am an employee of Oracle and the views expressed on this blog are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Oracle.

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