I wanted to take a moment to let everybody know about the splendiferousness of somebody very special. Why here? Because at least 71.9% of all the awesome stuff this person does makes it possible for me to do my job as FPL and be a software freedom advocate every day. …
Clint, the nautilus-open-terminal package may be (sadly?) one of my proudest achievements in doing something technical in Fedora. I’ve maintained that package since Fedora Core 5, when GNOME removed the terminal opening function from the default Desktop quick menu. I actually agreed with the change — if the average user …
Everyone in the USA, regardless of personal political persuasion, should acknowledge this is a historic day. Sen. McCain just made an incredibly gracious, dignified, and honestly moving concession speech acknowledging the moment and importance of the election of our first President of color. Now I’m waiting for the victory speech …
Preview Release. First, the goodiest of the goodies: Fedora 10 Preview Release is out today. Grab a torrent and start seeding the love! (Don’t forget to add vga=0x317 or the like to your GRUB to see the hot new Plymouth feature at work.) Update: Jeremy tells me that this is …
We’ve set up for 75 rooms at the Marriott Boston Cambridge for FUDCon F11. I am waiting on the hotel group code, which should be coming very shortly from the hotel group sales coordinator. Once that happens, all the information will be on the wiki as soon as possible thereafter. …
We should have hotel information available very soon, which will be posted to the wiki and notifications made everywhere there’s free space. I wanted to ask people, even if they have already signed up for FUDCon, to revisit the page and make sure all the columns are filled out. I …
January 9-11, 2009. These are the dates when the North American Fedora community will gather in Boston, Massachusetts to host another in a long line of very successful, mostly self-organizing conferences where we gather to talk about hot new developments, assess and kick off work on the next release, and …
Here I am at the end of a few whirlwind days visiting our Neighbor to the North, O Canada! I’ve been visiting Toronto for both the 2008 Free Software and Open Source Symposium and the Ontario Linux Fest. My only travel difficulty thus far was the fact that I absent-mindedly …
“Can China have its own software?” one angry poster writes in response to Microsoft replacing their desktop view with a black screen and (presumably) an offer to buy completely unaffordable genuine Windows software. The answer is yes, yes you can. It’s called Fedora, and it’s free for everyone to use …
I’ve noted before in the pages of this blog that I’d be surprised if Warner Brothers didn’t succeed at screwing up Watchmen, the comic book miniseries widely regarded as the best ever created. For good reason, too — it’s heady stuff, layered and mindful of human frailty and foibles, even …