For the last couple of days I was at FOSE 2008, the biggest IT conference and expo for federal government. I went to help out at the Tux.org booth to promote free and open source software (and, of course, Fedora). I wanted to especially thank Nicholas Brenckle, who headed up …
I was recently invited to give a presentation to the FOSSMeet 2008 conference at the National Institute of Technology Calicut. The conference is happening this weekend, and looking at the user list for their site, I see a number of our contributors there, including Kushal Das and Tejas Dinkar. The …
In between bouts of fighting one of my broken systems at home, I’m trying to spend some time working on our Single Source Summary page on the wiki. In doing that, and in talking to some other people about the Fedora 9 Beta, I found out that some of our …
The other night, I gave a little explanation of the technical mumbo-jumbo behind SELinux, and how it works in Fedora to make your system more secure, to my wife. She then came back to me with the best non-geek explanation ever: “It’s like a valet key for your services.”
Having the North American FUDCon for F10 colocated with the Red Hat Summit in Boston has a number of great benefits that go along with it — lots of enterprise, SMB, and individuals gathered in one place for open source content; plenty of space for workgroups to form around discussing …
As my good friend Karsten pointed out, the deadline to sign up as a Google Summer of Code mentor is fast approaching — 31 March to be exact. Ideas are super, but ideas need people power behind them to help guide and monitor the summer coders in their efforts. Please …
Rendition: Even great actors like Meryl Streep can’t save a hack, one-sided script with no room for the audience to mull over the moral and political questions it should have asked. Wishes it was In the Valley of Elah; waste of time. Margot at the Wedding: Superb character study piece, …
I’ve got a new favorite… Archive Mounter. I had a collection of .iso files (CD and DVD images) on my Desktop for various purposes, and today I discovered a new feature in the Fedora 9 Beta, courtesy of GVFS. Right-click the file, choose Archive Mounter, and voila! The CD is …
You can read the release notes to see what’s in store, and then… GRAB THE COOKIES! They’re good for you, we promise.