Head ‘em up.So I’m sure that title has never, ever been used in a blog entry about Rawhide. Ahem. Anyhoo… I’m trying F7 test3 (more or less, whatever Rawhide was this afternoon) on my ThinkPad T60p and, like Warren, getting absolutely no love from my ipw3945 wireless using the new iwlwifi. This is a supreme bummer, because it’s really impossible for me to work at home right now without wireless, which allows me to stay around where the kids are and keep an eye on them. It also allows my wife to at least observe my physical presence during nighttime hours, even if I’m not paying attention to her. And yes, now that you mention it, she is, in fact, a saint.
UPDATE: Nope, the kernel deadlock problem continues. It usually shows itself when I load a voluminous page in Firefox. |
Hidden gems.With all the talk about xchat notifications, it’s worth noting that the xchat-gnome package already comes with this functionality. Simply use gconf-editor (or hand) to edit the GConf key apps/xchat/plugins/notification/level key. I set mine to the value 3, which means any normally hilighted messages will generate a notification. |
Mixed feelings.Chris, I’m torn about these ads myself. On the one hand, they don’t completely suck. Attractive female representing Linux is a nice touch. Both the script and the production values are pretty good. On the other hand, the ads contribute to the mistaken impression that there’s no innovation in FOSS. I mean, can’t we come up with our own original campaign while embracing the aesthetic simplicity and beauty at which Apple PR excels? |
As if anyone needed convincing.For anyone still wondering, here’s why holding a FUDCon during every release cycle is a good idea. |
The Bloviators.When Max writes about metrics, it’s important to remember that he’s not picking on Ubuntu. We firmly believe that Linux success is roughly proportional forward and backward with Fedora success; my personal feeling is that when Linux does better, any hand-waving and blustering to thte contrary by people with prior agendas, Fedora does better at a greater rate since our product has less suckage overall. Our numbers are, as far as I know, the first hard evidence, backed up by a known, transparent methodology, of the true magnitude of Linux usage. Everything else up to now? Press regurgitation of numbers spouted by half-informed tech consultants, analysts, and other journalists. Certainly Red Hat has some idea of the number of RHEL boxen out there — at least the ones used by sysadmins who know what they’re doing and why. There’s also CentOS to consider, and that’s before you reach out for Debian, Ubuntu, Slackware, and everything else. The numbers start to add up easily into the tens of millions. Then think of the legacy versions in place, not just of Fedora but all other Linux distros. It wasn’t too long ago that I met an administrator running a Red Hat 4.2 box for his company’s 1,000+ seat email server. I naively asked, “why not upgrade?” to which his response was an understandable “if it ain’t broke…”. Fat chance counting those boxes. The code for smolt is out there, free to use. I would encourage other distros to start putting it to work as a way to benefit all of FLOSS. With real numbers in our pockets we can succeed in new and undreamed-of ways. |
Art imitates life imitating relevance.Says it so much better than I could, and in color too. |
Cross it off.Things accomplished:
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