Things I write for Planet FedoraProject consumption
Fedora release engineering team leader Jesse Keating has proposed that we slip next week’s Fedora 10 Beta by two days, to Thursday, September 25. This is due to a power outage happening in the Red Hat Raleigh office over the weekend. Check out his post on fedora-devel-list and feel free …
Well, this post from Mitchell Baker was good to see as a follow on to yesterday’s post from Spot, especially considering it’s what we would have preferred all along. The MPL is a perfectly useful and trustworthy license for binaries and source code, and we’re glad Mozilla is putting more …
There’s a new feature coming in Fedora 10 that is going to be very apparent to users trying the F10 Beta as their first introduction to the release. Plymouth uses X modesetting to drop the aging rhgb graphical boot engine in favor of a sleeker, faster system. However, the feature …
With regard to my friend Greg, who is now in the same town as me for a few days, and whom I might see later this week: Me: “Greg’s great.” My dining companion: “But a little full of himself.” Me: “Well, maybe, but if you were him, wouldn’t you be …
Thursday evening I had the pleasure of chatting with students at Seneca College in Toronto about Fedora and getting involved with open source. The students are in a program called LUX, a graduate certificate curriculum that is more about system administration and integration than programming per se. These students’ interest …
Russ Herrold has posted a really good article on key security, which I heartily recommend to the more security-conscious.
In case you hadn’t read the news, Fedora 8 and Fedora 9 updates are now available again through the mirrors. Read release engineer Jesse Keating’s announcement for more information on the new signing key, and a summary of what you need to do (answer: very little, thanks to a lot …
This has been an extraordinarily long and busy day, and other than a couple hours of breaks for lunch, dinner, bio, and munchkin bedtime rustlin’, I’ve been on the computer from 7am until 11pm. But before I left for the day I wanted to thank a trio of folks, Jens …
Don’t get too excited yet — we don’t have dates to announce yet, but we should have them fairly soon. One of the most important considerations in planning a FUDCon is making sure the facility will acommodate 100-200 Fedora hackers. You need a fairly robust network, ample seating for hackfests, …
This came up in conversation earlier this week and I didn’t want to forget outright to post it. If you’re sending links around for Fedora Project wiki pages, make sure you’re using the https: method (note the “s”). That helps people who are logged in — they’ll get the proper …