I’ve got a new favorite… Archive Mounter. I had a collection of .iso files (CD and DVD images) on my Desktop for various purposes, and today I discovered a new feature in the Fedora 9 Beta, courtesy of GVFS. Right-click the file, choose Archive Mounter, and voila! The CD is …
You can read the release notes to see what’s in store, and then… GRAB THE COOKIES! They’re good for you, we promise.
I am really looking forward to my trip to Berlin in May for LinuxTag 2008. I’ll get to meet a lot of the Fedora Ambassadors from Europe who make up such a thriving part of our community, to see Europe’s biggest .com-meets-.org Linux trade show, and (hopefully) to realize how …
This weekend was as good a time as any to take a step back from work for a bit, so I might as well wrap up some non-Fedora things I’ve been doing lately — less accomplishments than enjoyments, really. I got some reading done for pleasure, including one of Alan …
For folks attending FUDCon Boston 2008 at the Red Hat Summit, I wanted to extend a tip: If you or your employer is springing for attendance at the actual Summit itself, and you attended a previous Summit, you’re eligible for a special alumni rate. Check your email from the last …
Took my main workhorse — my laptop — to Rawhide tonight. Looking pretty sweet so far.
I updated the marketing surveys page on the wiki last night to include the full report from the FUDCon Raleigh 2008 event. Some people may have noticed that the available answers from Question 6 (as originally written) ended up truncated online, and we didn’t realize it until many people had …
Even though saddened by Arthur C. Clarke’s passing, I still chuckled when I saw this, and the fact that I did again this morning means I have to post it here: “Or we’re turning this car around! We mean it!
One of my favorite authors working in the science fiction genre, Arthur C. Clarke, passed away today at the age of 90. I will never forget the wonder I felt when I read 2001: A Space Odyssey (in an attempt to better understand the Stanley Kubrick film). I didn’t realize …
There has been some discussion lately about how to use our Firefox landing page, start.fedoraproject.org. The search bar there right now defaults to a Google search, but aren’t there better ways to use this page? One of the things we might want to do is to help seed a project …