On the brink.
I sent some thoughts to fedora-announce-list tonight about the upcoming Fedora 9 release. An enormous and sincere thank you to all our contributors for making this such a great release. Just a little over eleven hours away… ?
Month: May 2008
Lesser known contributors, Vol. 9 Issue 2.
It’s time for another post where I introduce you, Constant Reader, to another Fedora contributor you may not know personally, but who deserves some recognition. With this post, though, I’m actually naming a whole crew instead of just a single individual: the Fedora Ambassadors of Italy! I haven’t had the …
Slipping behind.
The only problem with putting your head down and your back against the stone is that sometimes you almost miss out on the scenery. Dear Trent, I’m guessing you made out pretty well on that whole Ghosts I-IV thing. Thanks for putting the bastards in their place with another CC-licensed …
Flushing the pipes.
It’s true, we had some problems with permission bits and rsync last night with the release candidate, which has resulted in some incomplete leaky mirrors. Users who try these mirrors may find that they don’t get what they’re bargaining for, because of missing bits. (Not to mention which, everything’s still …
A disk, by any other name.
Karsten, I don’t think we should be using, or telling others to use, the /dev/sd* device names at all anymore, when there’s a far better alternative — /dev/disk/*. The /dev/disk/* namespace has several ways for identifying your disks beyond a shadow of a doubt. For instance, /dev/disk/by-label/* files show your …
Lesser known contributors, Vol. 9 Issue 1.
In the tradition of Max’s “lesser known Fedora contributors” series of blogs from last year, I wanted to recognize people you may not know, who make an enormous difference in Fedora every single day. This is the first in a series that I’ll be highlighting around our Fedora 9 release, …
Choose a plank and cling to it.
The period for nominations to the Fedora Board is well underway, as I’ve blogged earlier. What I didn’t mention earlier, but which would be a great idea for anyone who wants to run, is to fill in your name and other helpful information on the official nominations page. This will …
World now safe for inanity.
Jef Spaleta prepared new builds of Istanbul, the GNOME screencast recorder, that feature a fix for a long-standing pernicious GStreamer problem. Most Fedora maintainers wouldn’t carry this sort of fix as a patch because it’s pure silliness (basically “ignore this error”), but upstream GNOME is living with it for now …
And the big tomato says, “Catch up.”
Problems (and the wailing, and the lashings) continue with the new WRT54GL router. I’m now using the current Tomato 1.19 firmware, which is totally swank but unfortunately hasn’t fixed the problems. The router seems to be offering DHCP addresses on the WLAN, but neither my laptop nor any other box …
To which you’ll return.
Most enjoyable movie night in a long while tonight, watching Stardust with Supawife. Romance, action, magic, drama, and comedy, with the extra one-two punch of Michelle Pfeiffer looking her best (and worst), and DeNiro doing La Cage. In all honesty, I haven’t seen something quite like this since I saw …