BalaBit Blog

  Last week I was at Linuxwochen in Wien as part of the Fedora team. As most of the presentations were in German and my German knowledge isn't that good any more as was in high school, I spent most of my time at the Fedora booth. We had many visitors: our booth had a 3D printer printing Fedora logos and other small objects, and a gaming laptop and a Raspberry Pi running Fedora to catch peoples attention, so I answered many questions related to these.  But of course there were many “why Fedora” type of questions and random Linux questions, like if a given USB serial adapter works with Linux. As I was wearing my syslog-ng T-shirt, many syslog-ng users dropped by. Instead of questions, they mentioned how happy they are with syslog-ng, which was quite good to hear :-) The only complaint I heard was about updating from version 2.X to 3.X as there are too many scary warning messages.   My presentation was in the evening of the second day and one of the few presentations held in English. Still, many people wanted to know what is new in syslog-ng. As I was not just talking but demoing these features, I was sitting in front of the audience instead of standing. This felt a bit strange at the beginning but proved to be a lot ... [Read More]