Year: 2015

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Configuring a Brother MFC-7460DN Laser Printer/Scanner on Fedora 23 (64-bit)

Update: the MFC-7460DN printer is now supported via the brlaser open source printer driver by Peter De Wachter. See this post for a much simpler way to configure this printer on Fedora (and other Linux distributions). I’ve always been a fan of Brother, as their devices usually come with decent support for the Linux OS […]

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Blogging on the openATTIC Community Blog

In case you were wondering why there were so few posts on this blog in the past weeks: since we’ve set up a dedicated blog for openATTIC, a lot of my recent blogging activity has taken place there. You can find all my posts using the Posts by Lenz Grimmer view.

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Slides and Video of my talk “The Evolution of Storage on Linux” at FrOSCon 2015

Last weekend, I gave a presentation titled “The Evolution of Storage on Linux” at this year’s FrOSCon 10 conference (Happy Anniversary!). In case you have missed it, you can find the slides and video recording below. Thanks to the FrOSCon team for having me, it’s always a pleasure to be there! Unfortunately I had some […]

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Creating a Contributor Agreement for Your Project

Back in the MySQL days, there was a need to have a contributor agreement that made it clear under which terms code contributions to the MySQL code base could be accepted. This was a requirement due to the dual-licensing model of MySQL, under which the software was available both under the GPL and a proprietary […]

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Moving on

Today, I’ve started a new chapter in my career: I’ve left TeamDrive Systems after 1.5 years and joined it-novum in Fulda, where I will be responsible for their open source storage solution openATTIC as a Senior Product Manager in their infrastructure group.