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Upcoming Events: CentOS Connect, FOSDEM, and CfgMgmtCamp

January 31, 2025

The next few days are shaping up to be packed with open-source goodness! I’ll be heading to CentOS Connect, FOSDEM, and CfgMgmtCamp, three of the best events in the ecosystem. These conferences always include a great mix of technical talks, hallway conversations, and spontaneous meetups with friends—both old and new.

If you’re around, let’s catch up!

CentOS Stream: fatti e leggende

October 28, 2023 - Milano, IT

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CentOS Linux 8 EOL

December 31, 2021

In December 2020, the CentOS Project announced a series of changes. The three most important are:

That announcement created a lot of different sentiments in the community and even more among the CentOS Linux users. As many predicted, multiple solutions are now available for the users that used to be on CentOS Linux.

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SSH with Yubikey

November 3, 2017

Authentication factors

One of the common way to create more secure authentication in systems is adding more “factors”, creating in this way a Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). The idea behind MFA is that there are many different ways to authenticate a user, and those can be split in different “categories” based on the kind of challenge we require. Generally speaking, it’s common to divide the authentication methods in mainly three categories:

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The AWS tools are approaching EPEL7

January 27, 2016

A couple of weeks ago, I’ve announced the availability of AWS tools for Fedora. I’m very happy to announce that today they are available in the EPEL7 repository as well.

The Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository is an RPM repository managed by the Fedora community that creates, maintains, and manages a high quality set of additional packages for Enterprise Linux, including, but not limited to, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, Scientific Linux (SL), and Oracle Linux (OL). As you can imagine, the 7 stays for the version, so only the version 7.x of the named distributions will allow you to install those packages.

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Innotop 1.10.0-0.3

December 22, 2015

Innotop is a tool that allows you to control the status of a MySQL/MariaDB database. It is widely used since it shows the data with an interface very similar to the top one.

Lately it’s development has slowed down, but small changes do come regularly.

The biggest change this time (compared to the 1.10.0-0.2 version) is the addition of a patch that allows innotop to work properly with MariaDB 10.1 and 10.2 that has recently hit the Fedora 24 repositories.

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Innotop fixed for MariaDB 10

August 24, 2014

One of my clients asked me to upgrade their MySQL 5.1 installation to MariaDB 10. This caused some problems mainly due to the fact that many MySQL clients are not MariaDB 10 ready. An example of a MySQL client not yet ready for MariaDB 10 is Innotop.

Innotop is a widely used client for MySQL/MariaDB that shows you an interface similar to the “top” Unix command. To solve this, I found a patch online and, after some testing, I’ve added it to the Fedora package.

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