Puppet with zypper

Title says it all
For people that use puppet on OpenSuSE there was a small problem since 10.2 because from that release on OpenSuSE did not include the rug command anymore to manage software…. but it’s still the default package provider for puppet (OpenSuSE switched to zypper).

So this weekend I wrote an initial zypper package provider (based on the rug package provider).
Drop this file in puppet/providers/package/ and you are ready to start using “provider => zypper” in your manifests

July 28th, 2008 - Posted in opensuse | | 0 Comments

Application virtualization

Today I saw a presentation from Acresso, the guys from AdminStudio and InstallShield.
The topic was Application Virtualization with products like Thinapp (formerly Thinstall) and Citrix.

I learned that with these kind of technologies it’s possible to create an executable of any (windows) application (msi) which also contains all the dependencies that this app needs (dll, registry keys,…) to executed. The advantage is that you can create an executable and run it everywhere (from a USB disk,..) and on every machine (win9x, XP, 200x,..)

This got me thinking…

Would it be possible to create a virtual application (e.g Photoshop) and run this under Wine?

July 10th, 2008 - Posted in Uncategorized | | 0 Comments

MagicBox

Today I received the openSusE 11.0 (DVD) Box.

It contains a DVD, Start-up guide and 2 stickers.

(Contributors to the project receive this gift as a way to thank them for their participation)

Thanks Novell/SuSE!

July 9th, 2008 - Posted in opensuse | | 0 Comments