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

Snake charming.

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 …

FUDCon Toronto 2009!

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. …

Chi love.

Tomorrow morning I’ll be heading down to the Richmond airport to head out for the world-renowned, forward-looking, future-proofing, often imitated, never equaled Red Hat Summit in Chicago.  I’m giving a talk on Wednesday afternoon on how Fedora fits into the overall Linux development strategy at Red Hat. But I’ll also …

Sneaky Pete, no. 71.

A few months ago I discovered a neat trick you can play in Anaconda, the Fedora installer, and thought I would spend time writing it up and passing it on. Imagine you have a USB hard disk with the release tree available. It doesn’t matter what release, but let’s assume …

Fedora 12 Alpha!

Today marks the Fedora 12 Alpha release, hot off the presses! You can pick up a copy to try all the latest technologies here: //fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease I’ve been running the Alpha version for about a week or so on one of my home machines. While there are some minor foibles here …

Firmware goodness.

Richard, Yes indeed — I installed a fresh system with Fedora 11 just a month or two ago, and was totally surprised when PackageKit offered to go get firmware for my EchoAudio Layla24 PCI card. A couple clicks and a reboot later (so the kernel could load the appropriate stuff …