The Grand Fallacy

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

Upgrade underway.

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 …

Why Tuesdays trump Mondays.

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 …

Getting on the grid.

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 …

Gilding the lily (pad).

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 …

The Great White North.

I was very pleased and excited to be able to give a Board “stamp of approval” over the weekend to the new Fedora EMEA group. It’s a collection of very dedicated and energetic Fedora Ambassadors working in concert in Europe to promote Fedora and expand our presence there. Max Spevack …