Things I write for Planet FedoraProject consumption
Have you seen Máirín Duffy’s post on the Fedora Design team’s next-generation design for the Fedora Project website? It’s a brilliant design based around the idea of a “sub hub.” These screens help customize the website to fit different sub-communities, initiatives, teams, or projects. Máirín published this post with the …
A lot of people I know like running the Irssi IRC client in a terminal, whether in a terminal multiplexer like tmux or GNU Screen. Me too! I also love running the latest GNOME releases. So when GNOME 3.12 was released and available for Fedora 20, I followed these simple …
DevConf.cz day 1, Friday. Friday was the first day of sessions at DevConf.cz, the biggest and best Czech open source event by developers, for developers. The event was packed, with over 900 attendees even before the weekend started! First up at 9:00 sharp was Tim Burke’s keynote about how Red …
Today I released PulseCaster 0.1.10 with some under the hood improvements: Switch from GConf to GSettings, and include schema file Providing appdata for GNOME Software Provide hidden “audiorate” key for 44.1/48 kHz selection Complete GObject introspection switchover, eliminating excess dependencies and fixing bugs (RHBZ #1045717) Automatically provide .ogg filename extension …
I’ve been at Red Hat’s Czech office in beautiful Brno this week. That means lots of meetings, lots of email and conversations, and lots of good beer. ? But the best part is this weekend’s big event, the Developer Conference event. This is one of the biggest open source events …
Sorry to post this a day late for some Christmas celebrants. Hopefully you will have had such a wonderful holiday that you can forgive the tardy good wishes! Wherever you are in the Fedora community, and whatever holiday you may or may not celebrate: I wish you a joyous season …
Today is a big milestone for all my friends in the Fedora Project — Fedora 20 is released! So to Robyn and all contributors across the entire project — congratulations on a job well done. I can’t wait to see what you come up with next! What are you waiting …
It was an emotionally draining day. Today I had to face, head-on, saying goodbye to a friend. Now that I’m home, done driving, done working, done talking and listening, I can sit quietly and let some tears come, and yes, be a little maudlin on my own time. I’ve gathered …
If, like me, you were an early adopter of Fedora 19, you may have upgraded from Fedora 18. If so, you might be seeing a black text screen for the grub 2 boot loader. It’s actually quite easy to get the pretty themed screen back if you want it. Just …
Usually I wait until later in the pre-release cycle — a few weeks before Beta on average — before I move to the pre-release of the next Fedora operating system. But for Fedora 19, I’m too excited to see GNOME 3.8 and all the other improvements, so I tried out …
