Things I write for Planet FedoraProject consumption
Yes, there’s a big news update for FUDCon Toronto 2009, the upcoming Fedora Users and Developers Conference in Toronto from December 5-7 — check out all the details in the announcement. Pre-registration is already open on the wiki, where you can find loads of other information and maps as well. …
I meant to post this a few days ago and time got away from me here at the Summit: A quick shout out to Dimitris and our good friends at Indifex — looks like there’s yet another major project, Moblin, using Transifex for translation infrastructure. Nice going guys!
Tomorrow morning I’ll be heading down to the Richmond airport to head out for the world-renowned, forward-looking, future-proofing, often imitated, never equaled Red Hat Summit in Chicago. I’m giving a talk on Wednesday afternoon on how Fedora fits into the overall Linux development strategy at Red Hat. But I’ll also …
Yesterday I received one of these. Fedora 11 installed beautifully on it, without a hiccup — I used the process I outlined in my last post, in fact. The results speak for themselves: I may be a bit gushing about it, but it’s the first truly performance-oriented, new computer I’ve …
A few months ago I discovered a neat trick you can play in Anaconda, the Fedora installer, and thought I would spend time writing it up and passing it on. Imagine you have a USB hard disk with the release tree available. It doesn’t matter what release, but let’s assume …
Yes, you heard it right — among the other cool features in F12 Alpha, you can now take a look at Moblin directly in Fedora proper, regardless of your hardware platform. To check it out, refer to this posting from Peter Robinson, ace maintainer from the Fedora Mini SIG (special …
Today marks the Fedora 12 Alpha release, hot off the presses! You can pick up a copy to try all the latest technologies here: //fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease I’ve been running the Alpha version for about a week or so on one of my home machines. While there are some minor foibles here …
There’s a very nice story in the News & Observer about John McLean, the recipient of this year’s Fedora Scholarship. This award, we hope, will allow John not only to advance his studies — computer science and religion at Duke University starting this fall — but also to maintain a …
Richard, Yes indeed — I installed a fresh system with Fedora 11 just a month or two ago, and was totally surprised when PackageKit offered to go get firmware for my EchoAudio Layla24 PCI card. A couple clicks and a reboot later (so the kernel could load the appropriate stuff …
Today we announced FUDCon Toronto 2009, our North American event for this year. FUDCon, as always, is free and open for everyone to attend. This year some excellent contributors in Toronto stepped up to deliver a great location and some logistical support that will help us put on an awesome …