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Video: Spotlight on Network ManagerNovember 25

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Today’s installment of Spotlight On features Dan Williams discussing Network Manager. Dan explains how the Fedora community designed Network Manager to make network configuration less of a hassle–now getting onto the internet is easier than ever before.

Video: Spotlight on oVirtNovember 18

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We caught up with Chris Wright at the Red Hat Summit to discuss how the oVirt sessions were going, and why people are so excited to see open source bring a virtualization tool to the market. oVirt works across platforms and architectures to meet the challenge of managing virtualization in the datacenter. For more information, check out http://ovirt.org.

Introducing Pylons: A hacker’s web frameworkNovember 5

Python has a good reputation for tasks like systems programming, network programming, and scripting, but Python for the web is becoming red hot. Part of this has to do with the very popular web framework Django, that was developed at a newspaper to help quickly create Content Management Sites. . Another reason is that Google App Engine–Google’s Cloud Computing offering for developers–only exposes a Python API.

If you are new to Python Web Development, then I’d recommend Django, as it is ideal for building CMS-type applications, social networking websites, and blogs. On the other hand, If you want a hacker’s framework, you might want to give Pylons a look.

Please note: By hacker, I am referring to the kind of hacker Eric Raymond refers to when he writes, “Becoming a hacker will take intelligence, practice, dedication, and hard work. Therefore, you have to learn to distrust attitude and respect competence of every kind. Hackers won’t let posers waste their time, but they worship competence — especially competence at hacking, but competence at anything is valued.”

Ok, so what problem does a hacker’s framework solve that a framework like Django doesn’t? According to some of the Pylons developers, their framework is geared to solve 80/20 problems. Most people—80% of people–want to build blogs, and CMS-type applications. And for that 80%, Django works just great. Of course, the other 20% is where Pylons comes in to play as a �

Interview: Chris Morgan on JoprOctober 31

JBoss Operations Network (JON) recently became available as an open source solution through the Jopr project. (That’s pronounced “jopper.”) We interviewed Chris Morgan from Red Hat’s JON group to learn more.

1. What does Jopr do?
Jopr is an open source project that provides an integrated management platform that simplifies the development, testing, deployment, and monitoring of your JBoss technologies. From a single console you can inventory and monitor resources from the operating system to deployed applications. It also lets users control and audit application configurations to standardize deployments. It’s a robust solution to manage, monitor, and tune your applications for improved visibility, performance, and availability.

2. What about Embedded Jopr?
Embedded Jopr provides many of the same features as Jopr, but only for a single instance or (in the near future) a cluster of JBoss technologies. It’s essentially an administration console to manage JBoss products–users don’t have to rely so much on command line and XML configuration to set up their JBoss environment and applications.

It doesn’t offer the extensive monitoring and historical auditing capabilities of Jopr, but it is perfect for an individual developer or administrator to use. In contrast, Jopr is what you use to manage the entire enterprise or multiple instances and clusters from one

Video: Spotlight on PackageKitOctober 29

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In the second installment of the Spotlight On series, we feature Red Hat engineer Richard Hughes on the fantastic new abstraction layer called PackageKit. PackageKit allows users to manage packages in a secure way using a cross-distro, cross-architecture API. This maintains a common set of GUI features, enabling the user to have a better session experience overall. For more information, visit www.packagekit.org.