Re: [Trouble-maker-developers] Project kickoff

[Developers l. f. trouble-m. <tro...@li...>]

Anything in particular we will be breaking?  Should we be installing LAMP
type things, or just a standard desktop environment?

 

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Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 8:27 PM
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Subject: [Trouble-maker-developers] Project kickoff

 

Thanks for volunteering to help out the trouble-maker project.  I know that
all of you have differing levels of both commitment and skill levels with
Linux.  I'm fine with that, as any attention at all will be more progress
than the project has had in recent years.

I created trouble-maker to help me get my RHCE.  In a nutshell, it's an
application that randomly breaks a system so you get the fun of fixing it!
I believe that the engine is solid, but I need help writing/adjusting
scripts to both break a system and test that it's been repaired correctly.
I learned a lot about Linux building the original project, both on RHEL and
SLES.  Based on this, I expect that anyone who works on it will learn a lot
about the distro of their choice... That said, at this time, RHEL is still
the most popular platform for the project, as it's directly relatable to the
RHCE.

It's going to be a bit of time before I can start any training sessions, but
the ultimate goal here for me is to get an updated project and hold regular
(monthly?) "classes" about Linux administration.  This will be a good way to
build Linux experience, both from the admin side (fixing a broken system)
and scripting (building out the project).

To start, we'll need to leverage virtualization or have dedicated test
hardware.  My personal preference is for vmware-server, as it's free and
works pretty well.  However, things should work fine with others like KVM or
VirtualBox.

Based on the list discussion, it seems Ubuntu and RHEL are the most useful.
So for the next few weeks, let's just get some machines built.  If you want
to get experience with RHEL, just build a CentOS VM.  If you run into
issues, just ask for help on this list.  I may be hard to get ahold of for
the next few weeks due to existing projects, so I'm not really looking for
this to really kick off until mid March.

I will, however, be paying attention for the next several days, so if you
have any questions, now is the time and here is the place.

Thanks again,

-Josh More