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One of these days I was trying to boot the latest OpenSUSE image on one of my p series machines, to see how the new release was doing on power. However, I hit a problem: I was not able to boot the installation program on my openfirmware based machine. My friend Carlos figured out what [...]

It’s certainly no news when we say that trac is a very popular project management application for free software projects, with good real world usage examples such as pidgin and the twisted framework. We were discussing about bug tracking software on the autotest, and I ended up defending trac against the other alternatives. Of course, [...]

We’ve been working on a new release cycle, and when time allows, I’m continuing to do my small contributions to the project Autotest. These days I was thinking about a good metaphor to describe autotest, when the idea of a robotic arm grabbing a tux came to my mind. Using my (very very poor) inkscape [...]

On our daily work, we have to deal with a quite large number of test systems (usually spread across the world), and perform some operations on these test systems. Even though we automate the testcase execution, it’s useful to have ssh/console access to a machine when you need it nevertheless [1]. After some time having to [...]

For those reading this blog trough planet LTC, I’ll introduce myself: My name is Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues, and I’m the lead of the Linux on Power test team. My team does testing of the enterprise distros of our partners, to ensure high quality of the final product. As we’re software engineers, we’re allways searching for ways [...]