Normally I’m really good at meeting deadlines by a good margin. However, with all the excitement going on ’round these here parts with leaving the old job and getting the house ready for sale, time has been short recently. Nevertheless, I got my conference talk submitted this morning for OSCON …
Today marked the end of this stage of my career, as I left public service. Yesterday, friends threw me a going-away luncheon where I told them, among other things, this (the best recollection I have of what I said): It took a very special job offer from a very special …
The problem with my (otherwise totally rocking) Dell XPS M1330 I previously blogged about here, and earlier here, where the Dell MediaDirect application restored itself over the first several gigs of my hard disk, wiping out part of my LVM physical volume, is solved. To prevent the Dell MediaDirect from …
Christopher Negus has turned out yet another very useful book, Fedora Linux Toolbox, which concentrates on command line skills. I met Chris a couple FUDCons ago, in awe of his reputation as an authorial powerhouse. Turns out he’s also one heckuva guy and a real Friend of Fedora, even though …
Dell’s MediaDirect killed my hard disk today, in the sense that “killed” means “overwrote a big swath of space including part of the LVM PV.” AGAIN. I can definitely say at this point that it has something to do with booting a Live image off the optical drive. The last …
Aside to aspell: When one opens up talks with a second party, it’s a dialogue. That is, in fact, a correct spelling in US English, and the abomination dialog is reserved for computery people who don’t have time for niceties like spelling, and typing two extra letters.
Note: Post was delayed to a ridiculous point by house painting, sorry if it’s stale. Yesterday Max posted some details about how recent Red Hat personnel actions affect Fedora, undeniably for the better. Because of the amazing work done over the past year by each and every Fedora community contributor, …
As Max said, congratulations are in order. This announcement is GREAT for Fedora. Besides his rapier-sharp wit, his keen eye for detail, his unmatched follow-through ability, his wicked sense of humor, his superb people skills, his stentorian speaking voice, and his Perl mastery, spot’s also got (from what I hear) …
As other people have noted, I started my Fedora life as a user of Red Hat Linux back in the day, starting with 4.1 (Vanderbilt?), and became a contributor as soon as I heard about the emergence of Fedora Core 1. And yes, as this implies, I missed a lot …
It’s time for the release notes dance again — the time that comes but twice a year, give or take seven or eight times, when we ask community members, developers, and package maintainers to step up and inform the public about what you’re doing. Fedora is all about innovation — …