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re. Installing Mono on SuSE Linux with Red Carpet

I was hunting around for some information on Mono dependancies when I found this article by Kevin Shockey:

Installing Mono on SuSE Linux with Red Carpet

Interesting – but one subtle flaw. The ZLM client components – also known as Red Carpet – are available online and they are open source – source hosted at cvs.gnome.org.

I mailed Kevin:

Kevin

I’ve just read your article from the end of last year – http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6123 – and I thought it was particularly interesting.

One thing to note – did you know that the ZENworks Linux Management client components – also known as Red Carpet – are 100% open source and available without downloading ZENworks Linux Management?

We have the RPMs for many platforms at ftp://ftp.ximian.com/pub/redcarpet2 – certainly fast and easy.

Also we have the public Red Carpet server http://red-carpet.ximian.com which provides community updates – including those for Mono.

Finally we have another open source project – Open Carpet – which lets developers host their updates to be consumed by the Red Carpet/ZLM client components – http://opencarpet.org

Let me know if I can be of any further help – and please feel free to reference this data in the future.

Regards,

/ezs

Let’s see if this gets a response. I’m keen to evangelise the benefits of OpenCarpet for developers and hacker teams.

BrainShare – keynotes and breakout sessions

Well – as usual it’s the week before Novell BrainShare and it’s hectic.

As I write I am in the Novell offices in our Product Management War Room building servers, clients and demos for the two ZENworks keynotes.

I’m also presenting three breakout sessions:

IO115 ZENworks Overview and Futures
TUT215 Managing Novell Linux Desktop with ZENworks Linux Management
TUT316 Advanced ZENworks Linux Management deployment and best practices

Information on these sessions is on the BrainShare breakout session site

Birdman redux

No sooner have I posted on ZENworks 7 Linux Management – when a slew of press comes out:

Novell Linux Strategy In Full Bloom
http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=159401396

Novell CEBIT announcements are loud and clear
http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/03/11/0231214.shtml?tid=2&tid=3

Novell debuts ZENworks for Linux
http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/03/11/HNzenworks7_1.html?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/03/11/HNzenworks7_1.html

Novell Ramps Up its Linux Push
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1775498,00.asp

Novell Upgrades Zenworks Linux Management Software
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1775525,00.asp

This also got on Slashdot:
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/13/1233251&tid=223

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Blogging

Tim Bray wrote an excellent article on blogging:

Ten Reasons Why Blogging is Good For Your Career

  1. You have to get noticed to get promoted.

  2. You have to get noticed to get hired.

  3. It really impresses people when you say “Oh, I’ve written about that, just google for XXX and I’m on the top page” or “Oh, just google my name.”

  4. No matter how great you are, your career depends on communicating. The way to get better at anything, including communication, is by practicing. Blogging is good practice.

  5. Bloggers are better-informed than non-bloggers. Knowing more is a career advantage.

  6. Knowing more also means you’re more likely to hear about interesting jobs coming open.

  7. Networking is good for your career. Blogging is a good way to meet people.

  8. If you’re an engineer, blogging puts you in intimate contact with a worse-is-better 80/20 success story. Understanding this mode of technology adoption can only help you.

  9. If you’re in marketing, you’ll need to understand how its rules are changing as a result of the current whirlwind, which nobody does, but bloggers are at least somewhat less baffled.

  10. It’s a lot harder to fire someone who has a public voice, because it will be noticed.

As a people manager I’m not too happy with #2 and #6 – but every point is spot on. As Product Managers we are inherently Marketers too.