Open source and I - Revision history

Per Jessen at 17:49, 4 January 2020

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← Older revision		Revision as of 17:49, 4 January 2020
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	**lilo - upgrade to latest version.		**lilo - upgrade to latest version.
	**Yast2::iSCSI - a fix of a very minor problem that nonetheless prevented iSCSI from working in openSUSE.		**Yast2::iSCSI - a fix of a very minor problem that nonetheless prevented iSCSI from working in openSUSE.
−	**[http://opensuse.jessen.ch/ stats] of my bittorrent seeder

← Older revision		Revision as of 18:36, 15 May 2012
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	**lilo - upgrade to latest version.		**lilo - upgrade to latest version.
	**Yast2::iSCSI - a fix of a very minor problem that nonetheless prevented iSCSI from working in openSUSE.		**Yast2::iSCSI - a fix of a very minor problem that nonetheless prevented iSCSI from working in openSUSE.
		+	**[http://opensuse.jessen.ch/ stats] of my bittorrent seeder

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 Later on I upgraded the openSUSE nasm package.
-* analog (weblog analyzer).
+* [http://analog.cx/ analog] (weblog analyzer).
 I added support for XML output.

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 * [http://www.clamav.net clamav]
-In 2005, I wrote a patch to make the freshclam daemon more resilient with respect to poorly written OnError and OnUpdate scripts.
+In 2005, I wrote a patch to make the freshclam daemon more resilient with respect to poorly written OnError and OnUpdate scripts.  Later, I wrote a 2nd patch to introduce
-bwclamd: a reworked clamd. work in progress. In production, but not yet published.
+* bwclamd: a reworked clamd. work in progress. Locally in production, but not yet published.
 * [http://etherboot.org/ etherboot]

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 * dosemu
-to be completed.
+This goes back to 2001/2002 or thereabouts - I honestly cannot remember what I wrote for dosemu, but I suspect you'll
 * [http://www.clamav.net clamav]
-Couple of new freshclam options: doodledee and doodledum.
+In 2005, I wrote a patch to make the freshclam daemon more resilient with respect to poorly written OnError and OnUpdate scripts.
 bwclamd: a reworked clamd. work in progress. In production, but not yet published.

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-open source and I go quite a way back.  All the way to 1995 when I uploaded "WFDOS" to a [http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Compuserve Compuserve] area or forum or whatever they were called. WFDOS is a utility for integrating DOS-tools for use within IBMs Workframe/2, part of the VisualAge C++ suite of tools. If you google it,
+open source and I go quite a way back.  All the way back to 1995 when I uploaded "WFDOS" to a [http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Compuserve Compuserve] area or forum or whatever they were called. WFDOS is a utility for integrating DOS-tools for use within IBMs Workframe/2, part of the VisualAge C++ suite of tools. If you google it,
 you'll quite likely come across references or maybe even a download. I know I have seen it listed on sites that collect OS/2 tools and utilities.
-Going even further back to the 80s, I suspect my first encounter with "open" source was MVS 3.8 on microfiche or tape and later on JES/328X, an RJE spooler for MVS, on paper. I think I might even still have the JES328X source code somewhere up on the attic.
+Going even further back to the 80s, I suspect my first encounter with "open" source was MVS 3.8 on microfiche or tape and later on JES/328X, an RJE spooler for MVS, on paper. I think I might even still have the JES328X source code somewhere up in the attic.
 I was probably a little late getting on the Linux bandwagon, perhaps because I was a keen OS/2 developer at home, and writing IBM mainframe

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 PMMail used to be my email client on OS/2, and wrote a couple of scripts for miscellaneous PMMail maintenance.
-* openSUSE::lilo
+* openSUSE stuff
+Apart from bug reports and mailing lists, I don't actually contribute a lot to openSUSE, but since mid-2011, I have started
-My second openSUSE contribution - I updated lilo to the latest version.
+fixing or upgrading the odd package:
+**nasm - upgrade to latest version.
-* openSUSE::Yast2::iSCSI
+**jfsutils - upgrade to latest version.
+**lilo - upgrade to latest version.
-A fix of a very minor problem that nonetheless prevented iSCSI from being used in openSUSE.
+**Yast2::iSCSI - a fix of a very minor problem that nonetheless prevented iSCSI from working in openSUSE.

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	* openSUSE::Yast2::iSCSI		* openSUSE::Yast2::iSCSI

−	A very minor ~~fix~~ that nonetheless ~~precented~~ iSCSI from being ~~useful~~ in openSUSE.	+	A fix of a very minor problem that nonetheless prevented iSCSI from being used in openSUSE.

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 * [http://etherboot.org/ etherboot]
-To be honest, I think I only wrote one, maybe two patches, certainly nothing major.
+To be honest, I think I only wrote one, maybe two patches, certainly nothing major. Something about the driver(s) for 3c509 or 3c515 comes to mind, but it's
 * hercules-390

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 * linux kernel
-A two line change to provide AHCI support for 88se9125. I also wrote a driver for flashing some AMD serial EEPROM, but I never published it.
+A two line change to provide AHCI support for 88se9125. Back in 2002 or 2003, I also wrote a driver for flashing some AMD serial EEPROM, but I never published it.
 * nasm
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 PMMail used to be my email client on OS/2, and wrote a couple of scripts for miscellaneous PMMail maintenance.