Well, you obviously took my whining to heart. 8) Other than taking credit for something other people have done (as above, apply humor filter,) is there anything else I can do to help out the fedora-legacy project? I can analyze fixes, apply patches and sling SRPMs around. I can also write documentation. If there's a need for QA, I can consider converting a server over to an unpopular release. (7.[12]? 8.0?). I imagine you have enough 7.3 capacity, though if that's not the case, I have one server running that release. I can't remember if I gave a "self introduction" or not, so here goes. I have 18 years systems administration experience, starting on VAX/VMS in 1986. I put my first Unix system, a Sun 4/110, together in 1989. I loaded Linux for the first time on a home PC in 1993 (Slackware with kernel 0.9something, IIRC.). Linux has become increasingly important in my professional life since then, of course. I switched over to Red Hat at 5.2, and I've pretty well stuck with them since. I'm currently supporting a large multinational's 7.3 based legacy Linux distro with security patches, working for another large multinational as a contractor to the first. I also do quite a bit of other work in the Linux line on the same project. My core specialty is systems administration tools. For many years, I maintained "op", which is a sudo-like program. I recently wrote sudoscript (http://egbok.com/sudoscript) which is a system for auditing activity in a root shell using sudo(8) and script(1). The first program is in C, and the second in Perl. I have lots of experience in both, though my Perl is much more current. I'm a Linux enthusiast, as well as a Linux professional. I believe in Free Software, but I'm not a fanatic. Systems Administrators have to be practical about most things, mainly because they rarely have a choice about what their users will throw at them. 8) If anyone took offense to my earlier postings, then I apologize. The flood of new fixes is impressive. I do think large lag times in releasing fixes is a problem for users depending on a service like this. But I'm volunteering to help out all I can to reduce turnaround. I can probably give five to ten hours a week. Thanks for the useful service. As I've said before, the triage has been particularly helpful to me. Keep up the good work! -- Howard Owen "Even if you are on the right EGBOK Consultants track, you'll get run over if you hbo@xxxxxxxxx +1-650-218-2216 just sit there." - Will Rogers -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
