Aujourd’hui, les grandes entreprises et administrations publiques hésitent entre continuer à utiliser des logiciels propriétaires ou basculer vers les Logiciels Libres. Pourtant, la plupart des logiciels libres sont capables de bien traiter les données issues des logiciels propriétaire, et parfois avec une meilleur compatibilité.
C’est alors la barrière de la prise en main qui fait peur, et pourtant...
Les logiciels libres
L’aspect « Logiciel Libre » permet une évolution rapide et une plus grande participation des utilisateurs. Les aides et tutoriels foisonnent sur Internet ou sont directement inclus dans le logiciel lui-même.
Enfin, les concepteurs sont plus proches des utilisateurs, ce qui rend les logiciels libres plus agréable à utiliser et conviviaux.
Grâce à la disponibilité des logiciels libres, vous trouverez facilement des services de support techniques et la licence n’est plus un frein à l’utilisation de ces logiciels par votre personnel.
Notre support technique concerne essentiellement les logiciels libres, que ce soit sous forme de services ponctuels ou de tutoriels.
- 11 janvier -
If you use the fediverse, you know that
the main bot-hosting instance,
botsin.space, closed recently. I document here
one or two things about the new hosting of two bots I maintain, one
answering BGP
requests and one for DNS information.
These two bots are documented in the
articles "A Fediverse/Mastodon bot for
DNS" and "A
Fediverse/Mastodon bot for BGP queries". They were hosted on
a dedicated-for-bots instance,
botsin.space. This one is now
closed so I had to move elsewhere.
This proved to be surprisingly difficult. Many instances no
longer accept new inscriptions, or are subject to a (sometimes long)
process of registration. Some have policies against bots (or mention
they are just "tolerated", something I did not want) or against the
use of some specific vocabulary (and I did not want the DNS bot to
filter words used in domain names).
But there were also technical issues. Some instances never hosted
a bot (more specifically a read-write bot, which will need the
ability to read notifications; many bots are write-only) and
therefore have surprising issues (one accepted the connections but
never sent the heartbeats that the Mastodon API uses to
check liveness, another replied with 404 to all requests of the
streaming API). And I had no experience with debugging
these issues (but now I do). In the end, while I would have
prefer to try another instance, I used the instance where my main
acount is hosted, mastodon.gougere.fr.
As usual on the fediverse, no instance is perfect
(botsin.space was blocking a big instance,
mamot.fr, for instance) but at least this time
it works. You can now resume sending DNS and BGP queries.
Thanks to the people who maintain instances (it is often an
unrewarding task) and let's toot.
