| AUUG 2006 Slack talk |
I gave a talk on how Google deploys software configuration to machines at AUUG 2006, and this reminded me to put the slide deck and paper online. So, here they are: slides in PowerPoint and PDF, as well as the conference paper.
Update: Now with URLs that are correct! Sorry for the cut and paste error...
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Michael Still
Ahh, sorry about that. I've fixed the URLs. Thanks for pointing it out.
To answer your other question, getupdates is more about OS packages than slack. Getupdates is a lot like "apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade" (but smarter than that). Slack is about software configuration, and doesn't touch parts of the machine not relevant to that slack role.
Is that clearer?
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Thaths
You are, single-handedly, responsible for zombies' server being slashdotted (See benley's comment in http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/06/10/17/1721224.shtml)
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Tim Riley
Hi Michael, I think you linked to your NSLU2 slides again here. I look forward to seeing the new ones!
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Tim Riley
I found the files, the PowerPoint link was correct but the others weren't. I have a question for you, however: does the slack tool bear any relation to the getupdates tool that Marc Merlin has used at Google? Has it superceded getupdates or does it do a similar job in a different way? Thanks for the information you have uploaded!