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Xen PV network driver
I haven’t used Xen HVM until recently. When I was at Amazon and hanging with the Xen provisioning folks, I recall complaints about the performance of network drivers on HVM instances. I’ve recently discovered that this was due to the use of the ioemu virtual interface (vif) system. In paravirtualized environments, Xen vif devices are…
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A quick update – I’m a grad student!
Hey all! I’m sorry I haven’t been very active with my packages recently. I all-of-a-sudden started grad school and have been swamped with studying. I also started a contract and have been busy trying to learn a new codebase while contributing something other than snark. I promise I’ll get back to packaging IronRuby and IronPython…
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Mono 2.4.2.3+dfsg-2 just hit debian
Thanks to Meebey! Sorry for the being out of touch thing and the not posting anything recently thing. A vacation took me by surprise and clocked me right upside the head. Next on the TODO list: Update the dlr-languages package to indicate dependence on the new release make sure it builds correctly on my sid…
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some links to my language-related blog posts
http://cjcollier.livejournal.com/2716.html http://cjcollier.livejournal.com/7191.html http://cjcollier.livejournal.com/8730.html http://cjcollier.livejournal.com/113549.html
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dlr-languages package passes another hurdle
It looks like the upload of the Iron* languages to Debian is imminent. We’ve gotten the debian/watch file downloading a tarball of the git tag we’ve chosen for this release. This was the last bit meebey needed in order to present it to the maintainer of ironpython in lenny. He has agreed to let the…
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MS-PL is acceptable for Fedora as a GPL-incompatible license
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-legal-list/2009-August/msg00017.html In addition, IronRuby/IronPython/DLR may make it in to FC 13, thanks to Brett.
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Randal Schwartz interviews Michael Foord about IronPython
The FLOSS Weekly folks (including my homie, Randal) just published this week’s interview. It is with Michael Foord, who I just met a couple weeks ago. He published a book about IronPython. He mentions Mono, the DLR and IronRuby, too ;)
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dlr-languages packaging
An update on recent changes to the IronRuby packaging. We’ve changed the name of the source package because We’re packaging IronPython as well as IronRuby (thanks doko!) I’ve added the wrapper scripts (irake, igem, etc.). Maybe this is showing that I’m not a heavy user… After building meebey’s packages and installing them: $ cat /etc/debian_version…