Developers Blog

Update of Rivendell 2 beta packages

on Nov 01, 2011

First Rivendell 2 debian/ubuntu packages were released last week to be tested. Update : Rivendell 2.1.0 has been released yesterday, packages have been updated. These new releases (2.0.2-2 and 2.1.0-1) provide several improvements in packaging : Changes Packages remove their…

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Rivendell 2, beta Debian/Ubuntu packages

on Oct 18, 2011

Rivendell 2 has been released in May. Few months have been necessary to refactor the debian packages. Here is a first “beta” release. The packages need to be tested on various platforms before a real release. Your feedback is welcome…

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Arduino Uno as a connected event trigger

on Feb 28, 2011

In the beginning, there was a need One of our customer asked us for a hardware solution to create events in the pigebox without having to access the web form. He said the members of the radio are not always…

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Dev support at SysAdmin Paris

on Feb 18, 2011

On 10/11 february, the second SysAdmin Paris days were organized in the nice IRCAM site near the Centre Pompidou. During the two days, the talks were very interesting : Postgresql 9, MongoDB, large storage solutions, … The talks were broadcasted…

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Sudo authentication with libpam-ssh-agent

on Sep 28, 2010

With virtualization environments, a simple infrastructure contains easily 15/20 hosts. Administrators often have to perform operations across several hosts. One of the consequences : a (good) administrator has to input his passwords to “unlock” sudo several dozen times per day….

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Qemu and vde switch

on Sep 11, 2010

By using QEMU or KVM virtual machines (to test Tryphon Boxes for example), you have to configure a network access. Even if tap/tun and NAT/bridge configurations have no secret for you, configuring a tap0 device on each qemu boot or…

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debian.tryphon.org migration

on Aug 20, 2010

The Tryphon debian repository has been migrated on a new server : a larger storage, a newer debarchiver version (with bzip support), a more powerful apache server. For many years, this repository provides debian and ubuntu packages for several domains…

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Agile Puppet at Séminaire SysAdmin 2010

on Aug 15, 2010

The first edition of SysAdmin Séminaire was organized on August 2 in the buildings of the Ecole des Mines de Paris. Here are the slides of our presentation “Agile Puppet”. If Puppet changes sysadmin operations into source files, we need…

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Test StreamBox livecd

on Jun 03, 2010

We’re releasing the first demo livecd for the Tryphon StreamBox. This 200MB iso image contains the StreamBox boot image. You can burn and boot it or use a virtual machine. Don’t espect a nice desktop, the StreamBox is a small…

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PuppetCamp Europe 2010 – Embedded Puppet

on May 28, 2010

Here are the slides for our presentation “Embedded Puppet” yesterday at PuppetCamp Europe 2010. We’re using Puppet to build embedded systems provided in Tryphon Boxes (run puppet in a chroot environment, create readable build scripts, share code between projects). Puppet…

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Tryphon Boxes at PuppetCamp Europe

on May 24, 2010

The PuppetCamp team has selected our speaking “Embedded Puppet” for PuppetCamp Europe (next thursday and friday in Ghent). We’re very proud to present how Puppet helps us to make Tryphon Boxes. We’ll present the two Puppet roles in our boxes…

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Large download with open-uri

on May 09, 2010

By creating release upgrade of Tryphon Boxes (especially for StreamBox), we discovered that OpenURI downloads the given url in a temporary file (or memory for small files). Certainly a nice idea in most of cases, but when you’re a Tryphon…

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