Things I write for Planet FedoraProject consumption
Today is full of Fedora 10 press, but I thought it was worth pointing out that there’s a nice general interview with Pacific Connection out now as well. I did this interview back around the end of September, in time for Fedora’s happy fifth birthday. (That was good cake!) Quite …
A word about statistics: Fedora continues to be completely open and transparent about the ways we gather statistics and the ways we present them. We don’t document these statistics for purposes of competition, but because we believe our community and our sponsors are invested and interested in knowing some of …
The excitement mounts — less than two hours to release of Fedora 10: Cambridge! Last night I sent a thank-you message to our whole community for the work done on this important release. Today we can really kick up our feet for a few hours and celebrate the culmination of …
I was going to spend some time tonight writing a big warm and fuzzy blog post about looking forward to Fedora 10 and all the good times ahead. That would have been awesome. Instead, it’s my sad duty to report that my spiffy little Dell XPS M1330 took its own …
Tonight I had the opportunity to appear on The Linux Link Tech Show for an extended interview with the crew there. I was really happy to be able to do this since fate didn’t allow us to sit down together at the Ohio Linux Fest last month. Tonight’s interview was …
It may have been a whole 26 minutes since I last sang the praises of the Fedora Infrastructure team, but lo and behold, what should end up in my inbox but an uptime measurement survey from the good people at Pingdom. And guess who’s at the top of the heap? …
Probably most Fedora community members already know this, but starting tomorrow the Give One Get One program returns, this time courtesy of Amazon. You’ll also be able to get a 4 GB SanDisk Extreme III SD Card to run Fedora 10, complete with extra swap space and live persistence. If …
Release notes. It looks like we have at least 12 locales with 100% completed translations for Fedora’s release notes, which is great. A few more may be rolling in shortly, because there are several that are almost done right now. By tomorrow we’ll be rolling the RPM package that will …
Yes, Fredericksburg, Virginia, has more than its share of nerds. Go FredLUG!