The Fedora Board election results and the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee election results have been posted. Thank you to all those who voted, and to all those who ran for election. I’d like to welcome Dennis Gilmore and Tom ‘spot’ Callaway back to the Board, and also a special welcome …
I didn’t realize until very recently that our yum-presto plugin and DeltaRPM leverage a good bit of work done over in the openSUSE community — and that work is AWESOME. If you check out one of our recent podcasts for Fedora 11, you’ll hear Jon Dieter talking about this feature …
Some important statistics from the first week of Fedora 11 release: Over 140 Terabytes of Fedora 11 shipped via BitTorrent. Approximately 200,000 direct downloads from unique IP addresses. (Incidentally, there were over 600,000 requests but some IP addresses requested more than one download.) Over 1,000,000 1,200,000 visits to our web …
Day 1: Slept really poorly, probably just a result of angst over my keynote, which, in the tradition of fine Fedora Project Leaders of yore, I completely rewrote the night before, finally turning in around 1:30am and waking up about every hour afterward (like clockwork!). The first day of SELF …
I should have mentioned one other fun thing that I did with my evening last night. I don’t want to put unfair pressure on anyone, and I’m sure he’s doing a ton of interviews over the course of the SELF event. But I had a great time having a long …
I had a great flight yesterday from Dulles to Greenville — the plane was very sparsely filled, and I had an exit row all to myself! It made for a great work environment even with a short flight. When I landed and picked up my car, I was both horrified …
Due to my travel to this week’s Fedora Activity Day in Raleigh, and the marketing work around the release, I find myself a little strapped for time and with a lot of writing to do. Tomorrow I will probably be absent from most IRC and only addressing critical email so …
“C” also stands for “Community.” Why bring this up now? Because along with Leonidas roaring to life this week, we also have some other great news to share with our (little-“c”) community members: Fedora Community – the new collaboration site for Fedora contributors! Fedora Community is powered by Moksha, a …
Did you know that the wonderful Red Hat Creative team put together a video about a couple of the cool features in Fedora 11? Come check it out on the redhat.com site.
Leonidas roars to life! Come get some. You can read the official release announcement here, which includes other helpful links as well.