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

We’re golden.

From the IRC buffer of #fedora-devel, looks like Fedora 7 will be in General Availability on 31 May. To all those who repeatedly tested and fed back bugs and information, a hearty and heartfelt thank you. I’m sure the actual release engineering folks will have more to say about this …

So much for free time.

I’ve put a release candidate for the F7 Installation Guide on my wiki page, along with instructions on how to read it and how to file bugs for problems. Patches to the DocBook XML happily accepted, of course. You don’t need to check out any CVS or do anything other …

More on being a heel.

A while ago, I wrote a bit about tracking down a sham “charity” that was soliciting donations for support-worthy causes like disabled firefighters and homeless veterans. I was contacted a few months back by a reporter about my dealings with this charity, but somehow with the vagaries of time differences, …

Right, NOW you can drool.

The most coveted piece of hardware seen at the Red Hat Summit: These showed up at the semi-exclusive, Office Space-themed RHCT/RHCE cocktail reception on Wednesday night before the IBM beach party. The table centerpieces also included ancient-vintage HP LaserJet printers complete with baseball bats. (I was a little disappointed we …

Emotional journey.

OK, so the trip from Dulles to San Diego was more of a leg-cramping, neck-cricking journey, courtesy of United. But did have the following observations. An older, married couple were sitting a few rows up from me on the plane. When the wife (center seat) returned from the rear lavatory, …