Building Puppet's unofficial forge community
Jun30

Building Puppet's unofficial forge community

A Puppet module might only be some 500 lines of code and a bunch of tests, but that doesn’t mean it’s effortless to maintain. Puppet modules should run on a range of operating systems and support a range of Puppet versions (and hence, Ruby versions)—and that in and of itself makes it quite challenging. So while a single person could easily write a Puppet module, what happens when that person gets sick? Changes jobs?...

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4 cool facts you should know about FreeDOS
Jun30

4 cool facts you should know about FreeDOS

In the early 1990s, I was a DOS “power user.” I used DOS for everything and even wrote my own tools to extend the DOS command line. Sure, we had Microsoft Windows, but if you remember what computing looked like at the time, Windows 3.1 was not that great. I preferred working in DOS. read...

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