Test day for systemd tomorrow.Tomorrow, Tuesday September 7, there will be a Test Day for the new systemd init facility in Fedora 14. You can find the participants on IRC Freenode at #fedora-test-day. Participating in a test day is simple, and you don’t even need to have the Fedora 14 prerelease installed on your system to participate. We have a nightly Live image that you’ll be able to download and run from USB to do all the testing. If you do have a prerelease of Fedora installed, though, you’ll want to make sure it’s updated with the latest software. These Test Days are a marvelous way for the whole community to participate in the development of new and innovative software for Linux users everywhere. Whenever we have these test days, we communicate the issues we find to the upstream so they can make the software better for everyone. That’s the open source way at work. You might also be interested to know that soon we’ll be having test days for the free graphical (Xorg) drivers for Nouveau, Radeon, and Intel graphics cards the days of September 28-30. These drivers have been making huge progress over the last few releases of Fedora, and the Test Days have definitely helped. Just about anyone can run the tests for these drivers and help us squash out bugs in your favorite system’s video card. Please join us for systemd testing tomorrow, and keep your eyes peeled for news about other exciting test days. You can help make free software even better! |
Helping the defenders, errata.Some additional information regarding my last post about helping Red Hat with a Fedora trademark issue: It turns out that materials using the old Fedora logo aren’t necessarily irrelevant. In fact, any evidence of our using the word “Fedora” in connection with our distro before January 30, 2007 is valuable. Check out this email from Pam Chestek, who deals with IP issues in Red Hat’s legal department, for more details. In a couple personal emails to some helpful contributors, I may have mentioned that only the new logo was useful (thus limiting us to a window from about late 2005 through January 30, 2007. However, that was incorrect, and if you have earlier evidence of our use of the word “Fedora” (whether it has the old logo, the new logo, or simply the word “Fedora” in connection with the Fedora distro), it’s useful! You can find the mailing addresses you need in this original posting to the advisory-board list. |
