The Grand Fallacy

Linux, musical road-dogging, and daily life by Paul W. Frields
 
The Grand Fallacy

FUDCon notelets, no. 2.

A couple tidbits related to the FUDCon Toronto 2009 event happening in a few months, of particular interest for travelers coming from outside Canada: Check with your mobile phone provider ahead of time, to check your coverage. Nothing sucks more than coming back from an event to find a huge …

I’m speaking at UTOSC.

Coming up in a few weeks is one of my favorite events from last year — the fantastic Utah Open Source Conference 2009. It will be held October 8-10 in SLC and features a cross-distribution speaker lineup that includes people from projects all around the free software universe. Ace community …

Even keel, arrr.

(I’m not ready for International Talk Like a Pirate day to be over, apparently, given the subject line.) Spot, in response to your insightful post, your experience at Atlanta Linux Fest seems a bit different from the many distribution-agnostic events that happen every year, like SELF, UTOSC, LinuxTag, and Ontario …

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 …