Yahoo stores more than 250 Billion objects and half an exabyte of perpetually durable user content such as photos, videos, email, and blog posts. Object storage at Yahoo is growing at 20-25% annually. The growth is primarily driven by mobile, images, video, and user growth. Yahoo is betting on...
VyOS 1.1.0-beta1 is now available for download from http://dev.packages.vyos.net/iso/preview/1.1.0-beta1/. Image naming is the same to release images.
1.1.0-beta1 should be stable enough for non-critical aplications, but it’s not ready for production and needs your testing. Please install it...
Smileys in OCaml
OCaml already supports “;;” and “^^” asian style smileys (expression terminator and format string concatenation respecitively), but support for user-defined operators allows you to add some missing ones.
(* Meaning assigned at random *) let (=^.^=) x y = if (x mod 10) = (y mod 10) then true else false ;; let (><) x y = if (x mod 10) <> (y mod 10) then true else false ;;
You can try those immediately in top level loop:
# 11 =^.^= 21 ;; - : bool = true # 11 >< 21 ;; - : bool = false
The myth of Brocade killing Vyatta Core
The opinion that Broacade killed the open source Vyatta is surprisingly common. It’s not absolutely incorrect, but the complete picture is a bit more complex. Facts that are ofteb overlooked:
- The amount of proprietary code was growing steadily.
- Vyatta never really relied on community participation and wasn’t doing anything to increase it, like at least releasing an API reference.
- All actions like removing features always went complerely unexplained.
OpenSSL vulnerabilities
As you should already know, several security vulnerabilities in OpenSSL were discovered recently.
An updated package is already made by debian and included in squeeze repos, we are working on 1.0.4 maintenance release, expect the ISOs soon. If you need a fix right now, you may try installing updated packages (libssl0.9.8 and openssl) from the debian repos on a live system.
VyOS Subscription Edition was a joke
April Fools Day is almost over in the western hemisphere, so in case anyone took VyOS Subscription Edition seriously, it was a joke.
We may introduce commercial support and professional services in the future, but the software will always stay free and unified.


