Linux, musical road-dogging, and daily life by Paul W. Frields
 
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Broadcom brightening.

I saw something interesting in my email today — apparently Rawhide (which is rolling toward next week’s Beta release of Fedora 12 even as we speak) and Fedora 11 have received the b43-openfwwf package, which supports a bunch of Broadcom wireless models. You can find out more information about b43-openfwwf …

If I’m lyin’, I’m dyin’.

Some important statistics from the first week of Fedora 11 release: Over 140 Terabytes of Fedora 11 shipped via BitTorrent. Approximately 200,000 direct downloads from unique IP addresses. (Incidentally, there were over 600,000 requests but some IP addresses requested more than one download.) Over 1,000,000 1,200,000 visits to our web …

Get your goggles on.

Tomorrow is the day — Fedora 11 roars into action! Make sure that you fire up your BitTorrent client and seed for others; help to spread the love! I want to take a moment to thank each and every person who supported this release — whether it was by writing …

This. Is. ALPHA!

[This post was supposed to be out yesterday, but somehow I managed to brush my touchpad the wrong way and… well, the dog ate my homework. Or WordPress did. Either way, sorry about the lateness of the hour, and all that. Revised now for more contemporary enjoyment. — Ed.] Yes, …