Just so no one gets too surprised, I see that our Desktop team has subtly altered the notifications in F12/Rawhide. Notification bubbles now look like this: These bubbles drop the gray theme with a color bar used in previous releases for the more prevalent “none more black” found in Ubuntu …
Very cool — the Hamster applet, which I use to track my time, is featured in the GNOME 2.28 release notes. I really enjoy using this application to keep count of my hours and the way I spend my time during the work day. Thanks to its flexibility for noting …
A couple tidbits related to the FUDCon Toronto 2009 event happening in a few months, of particular interest for travelers coming from outside Canada: Check with your mobile phone provider ahead of time, to check your coverage. Nothing sucks more than coming back from an event to find a huge …
Coming up in a few weeks is one of my favorite events from last year — the fantastic Utah Open Source Conference 2009. It will be held October 8-10 in SLC and features a cross-distribution speaker lineup that includes people from projects all around the free software universe. Ace community …
(I’m not ready for International Talk Like a Pirate day to be over, apparently, given the subject line.) Spot, in response to your insightful post, your experience at Atlanta Linux Fest seems a bit different from the many distribution-agnostic events that happen every year, like SELF, UTOSC, LinuxTag, and Ontario …
What a lovely day we had for our Software Freedom Day 2009 celebration. It was about 68F by the time we set up in the morning, and the weather would stay mostly sunny and 75F all afternoon. We set up our tables in the small courtyard in front of the …
Tomorrow I’ll be gearing up for Software Freedom Day here in my hometown, along with a bunch of dedicated friends from FredLUG. We’re going to have balloons, a free raffle for some swank gear, and stickers, temporary tattoos and CDs and DVDs of Fedora. We’ll also have bunched of copies …
Well, as everyone probably knows we’ve got coming up in December the North American edition of the always joyous Fedora Users and Developers Conference (FUDCon) in Toronto, Canada. And with that comes the somewhat less joyous task of figuring out how we can squeeze the maximum number of Fedora contributors …
The recent mockups of an improved Anaconda storage UI are really interesting. In the back of my mind, it did get me thinking, though. These mockups have a lot of really juicy information for knowledgeable users. For the most part, the information shown is going to be really helpful for …
Yes, there’s a big news update for FUDCon Toronto 2009, the upcoming Fedora Users and Developers Conference in Toronto from December 5-7 — check out all the details in the announcement. Pre-registration is already open on the wiki, where you can find loads of other information and maps as well. …