Linux, musical road-dogging, and daily life by Paul W. Frields
 
Category: <span>Linux</span>

Outreachy internship available

Here’s a fantastic opportunity in open source for folks from underrepresented backgrounds. The Fedora Engineering team has an Outreachy internship available December 2015 to March 2016. Applications are being accepted at the Outreachy site. The deadline is 1900 UTC Monday, November 2, 2015. Are you familiar with Outreachy? It’s a program designed to boost participation …

Flock 2015 thoughts.

Getting started at Flock Like everyone on the Fedora Engineering team, I was in Rochester for the Flock conference last week. After several flight delays on our direct flight from DCA to Rochester, Justin Forbes, Ricky Elrod, and I finally arrived a little after 9:00pm — about four hours late. Thankfully Josh Boyer came to pick …

Fedora Engineering team opening.

The team I manage at Red Hat, the Fedora Engineering team, includes people who work on Fedora system administration, release tooling, application development, and design. We have a job opening for an engineer to work with our infrastructure applications team on some challenging, fun, and forward-looking problems: Building and enhancing our tools …

PulseAudio is still awesome.

PulseAudio is an indispensable part of my Fedora Workstation. While PulseAudio may have detractors, my experience has been all good. Most sound problems I’ve seen come down to one of the following: Bad drivers at a lower layer (not PulseAudio’s problem) Bad hackery in the distro (ohai *buntu) People parroting years-old Internet “wisdom” …

Fedora under construction?

Fedora’s quality makes complacency easy. But in truth, we’re always under construction — or we should be. You could call that constant disruption by different names. Risk positive. Forward leaning. Embracing change. Since inception, Fedora was intended to avoid the status quo. So what’s next for shaking up said status? …

New addition.

I’m proud and pleased to announce that Adam Miller is joining the Fedora Engineering team in mid-April, as our new release infrastructure guru. Adam is not new to our community — he’s been involved in Fedora for a number of years. He also has a long history of working on …

Fedora kernel engineer.

Red Hat has an immediate opening for a full-time engineer to join the kernel team in Fedora Engineering. This job will work with Josh Boyer and Justin Forbes to maintain and improve the kernel in Fedora, and participate and contribute to upstream development and testing. This job interacts with the Fedora team and community, the …