The Grand Fallacy

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

How about that desktop?

I figured while I’m in a super-bloggy mood today I’d add this tidbit. Someone asked me a question about what might be missing from distributions like Fedora that would help it reach more users. This question isn’t new and I’ve given the subject a lot of thought over the last …

FUDCon and gifting.

I had a couple tidbits to pass along on the day after release, neither of which directly concerns Fedora 10 itself. FUDCon classroom space has been confirmed at MIT. We’ll be taking up in the Sloan Building as predicted. We have plenty of classrooms reserved on the third floor and …

Worsed than damned lies?

A word about statistics: Fedora continues to be completely open and transparent about the ways we gather statistics and the ways we present them. We don’t document these statistics for purposes of competition, but because we believe our community and our sponsors are invested and interested in knowing some of …

On the brink!

The excitement mounts — less than two hours to release of Fedora 10: Cambridge! Last night I sent a thank-you message to our whole community for the work done on this important release. Today we can really kick up our feet for a few hours and celebrate the culmination of …

Fedora unfiltered.

Tonight I had the opportunity to appear on The Linux Link Tech Show for an extended interview with the crew there. I was really happy to be able to do this since fate didn’t allow us to sit down together at the Ohio Linux Fest last month. Tonight’s interview was …