Finally out! The new CAD/CAM repos are built for fc16, and are the only RPMs for Fedora or any RH-derivative distro that I know of. The first entries are FreeCAD and OpenCASCADE that FreeCAD depends on.
On the back end, there is a brand-new infrastructure for managing the repos. Grinder keeps Zultron's Fedora and supporting mirrors up to date. Tito automates building RPMs from git tags. Tito sends releases to Koji, which manages the released Zultron RPMs, including those in the CAD/CAM repos. Koji builds the RPMs using Mock, which creates chroots to build RPMs for any distro or arch. Koji keeps track of which builds go into which repos, and also keeps track of package signatures. Sigul provides a secure interface to automate signing packages with the Zultron RPM signing key. Finally, Mash takes care of pulling the signed repos' packages out of Koji and putting them on the disk, along with the repo metadata and human-readable web pages. Whew!
April 6th, 2012 in
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Replacement projector bulbs cost $150, or $250, or for my ancient out-of-production 3M MP8650, $1000! Recently I bought a Compaq MP1600 on craigslist for $15, but it needs a $250 bulb. This kind of investment is more than the projector is worth, so what do you do? Read the rest of this entry »
February 23rd, 2010 in
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My first "computer" was a DECSYSTEM-20 (see top picture). Actually, it belonged to the University of Texas, and my father had a terminal with a keyboard, thermal printer and acoustic coupler called a "Silent700" (see lower picture) that he dialed in with.
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February 20th, 2010 in
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This post describes the new RPM for FreePBX in the Zultron repo. This RPM, compared to some others, is fully functional, and can be installed, removed and verified with the usual RPM commands, and contains other important pieces of infrastructure. Read the rest of this entry »
March 25th, 2009 in
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A brand-new FreePBX RPM is released in the Zultron repo. It was built from scratch, and improves over other FreePBX RPMs I am aware of:
- Contains latest versions of all modules
- RPM verifies, and uninstalls cleanly
- Init scripts for FOP server
- SRPM contains scripts to help automate updates when new modules come out
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March 22nd, 2009 in
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The Zultron repo now contains some Asterisk RPMs along with some supporting packages.
The SRPM is originally from ATrpms with the following changes:
- All /etc/asterisk config files, except for asterisk.conf, not installed (for compatibility with the FreePBX RPM) (samples still in the doc directory)
- Minor changes to RPM macros so it can compile outside the ATrpms environment
- asterisk-extra-sounds-en-gsm added to support FreePBX
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March 22nd, 2009 in
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New RPMs for dahdi-linux and dahdi-tools are now released in the Zultron repository. They are based on the ATrpms RPMs, and contain some improvements:
- Kernel module RPMs can be built against any
kernel-devel or kernel-xen-devel RPM
- OSLEC echo canceller
- No ATrpms proprietary macros, so the RPMs can be compiled outside the ATrpms environment
- RTC is disabled by default for kernel-xen RPM modules
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March 22nd, 2009 in
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It seems a shame to hoard RPMs, so the new Zultron repository is setting free a pile of new RPMs with features never seen before in other RPMs. These RPMs are compiled for CentOS 5 and depend on EPEL, and may or may not work for other distros. Currently, the focus is on Asterisk-related RPMs, but this may change over time.
Check this link for instructions about how to use the repo.
Announcement posted on the asterisk-users
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Announcement posted on the freepbx development forum
March 22nd, 2009 in
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This is about getting the Dell PowerEdge SC1435 working with the Dell PowerVault MD1000. I bought two PEs and a PV for each of our sites, one in China, one in the US. Evidently, I should have done more research before choosing this combination, because it's known not to work. However, our Dell salesmen (both in China and the US) still happily sold it to us. At this point, the system now does what we need, but only after quite a bit of hassle. Maybe this will save the next person some headache if they find themselves with this combination of hardware in their hands. Read the rest of this entry »
December 3rd, 2008 in
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The target configuration
The target configuration for this HOWTO is an SPA3102 connected to the same LAN as the PBX, or at least a routed but non-NATted situation(we use this same configuration for an SPA3102 across a VPN). The SPA3102 will be connected to the LAN through the 'INTERNET' port, and to the PSTN through the 'LINE' port. Setting up the phone port is very easy, and you should look for another tutorial for this. If you decide to use the 'ETHERNET' port for something, that's fine, but you're on your own there too.
Why another howto?
Why another howto for getting the SPA3102 to play with FreePBX? Because the howtos I've seen just don't work for me. There was one I found once, actually, that was excellent: It walked you through steps, just as any other howto would, but broke it up into separate sections where the user would complete a set of steps and then do some tests to make sure that particular functionality was working before moving on. That works well for a user who's not an expert, but wants to narrow down what he has to debug at each step. I tried to follow this approach here. Suggestions welcome!
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November 9th, 2008 in
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