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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Things looking generally up today. For whatever reason, my new WRT54GL is now working fine. Dinner plans with friends fell through, so as nice as that would have been, I now have some extra hours for some bits and pieces I needed to work on. Also, turns out this crazy …
Bumpy ride. To continue today’s epic streak of bad luck: My softphone gave out on me right before I was supposed to speak on an agenda item at a meeting this afternoon. My landline was in use by the wife, and when she got off, the conference system wouldn’t let …
A few weeks after the release of Fedora 9, it will be once again time for Fedora Project Board elections. This time around, as you may have heard, we have shifted our composition to five elected seats out of nine, instead of the previous four. Are you someone who thinks …