The Grand Fallacy

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

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 …

Sneaky Pete, no. 71.

A few months ago I discovered a neat trick you can play in Anaconda, the Fedora installer, and thought I would spend time writing it up and passing it on. Imagine you have a USB hard disk with the release tree available. It doesn’t matter what release, but let’s assume …

Fedora 12 Alpha!

Today marks the Fedora 12 Alpha release, hot off the presses! You can pick up a copy to try all the latest technologies here: //fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease I’ve been running the Alpha version for about a week or so on one of my home machines. While there are some minor foibles here …

Firmware goodness.

Richard, Yes indeed — I installed a fresh system with Fedora 11 just a month or two ago, and was totally surprised when PackageKit offered to go get firmware for my EchoAudio Layla24 PCI card. A couple clicks and a reboot later (so the kernel could load the appropriate stuff …