One of my favorite authors working in the science fiction genre, Arthur C. Clarke, passed away today at the age of 90. I will never forget the wonder I felt when I read 2001: A Space Odyssey (in an attempt to better understand the Stanley Kubrick film). I didn’t realize …
There has been some discussion lately about how to use our Firefox landing page, start.fedoraproject.org. The search bar there right now defaults to a Google search, but aren’t there better ways to use this page? One of the things we might want to do is to help seed a project …
While I’m catching up on a couple bugs and some email early this morning, I realize that I owe some props and gratitude to Brad M. Walker. Brad has a Xft-enabled Emacs available at his yum repositories for Fedora 8 and Rawhide. He tracks upstream pretty closely; the Emacs I …
The community first started talking about a desktop solution for helping people find available open source codec solutions in the context of the ubiquitous MP3 format. The Fedora community has never made any secret of the fact that we think MP3 has severe problems compared with Ogg Vorbis, both in …
Since I’ve had websites on the brain this morning… Did everyone get a chance to see this post from Adrian Reber? What do you think about the results, and what do they tell us about the state of our project? (Please trackback rather than comment so our Planet readers will …
This week brought some much needed changes to Fedora, as our brilliant Websites and Infrastructure teams rolled out the new Fedora Account System 2 (FAS2). It means a shinier, more intuitive process for people to join Fedora. Our sysadmins seem to make a dangerous habit of always exceeding expectations! But …
Because it’s only 9:00 a.m. and already I’ve: Had breakfast and made coffee Taken an online lecture course Caught up on email Helped with a packaging question Did a little wiki editing Helped clean up an unfortunate pet-related gastric incident Successfully avoided terminating said pet Oh yeah, it’s going to …
A rather exciting post hit the fedora-advisory-board today. It’s about enabling a Fedora grid architecture, not dissimilar from grid.org or other community distributed computing efforts, but entirely run in typical Fedora fashion — meaning free as in beer and speech for everyone, end-to-end. Users of Fedora could design, create, and …
I opened Transmission last night before I went to bed, downloading a torrent of free music. And I didn’t for one second feel guilty, because it was Nine Inch Nails’ new CC-licensed album. I was thrilled because instrumental stuff has become my MO for background noise while I work. This …
At SCALE, Sun’s Barton George interviewed our own Tom ‘spot’ Callaway about his new-ish role as Fedora Engineering Manager. (This has been up a couple days, but I just got on top of my feeds.) The whole interview is great — go download it now, it’s available in Ogg Vorbis …