Category: Fedora

As Max said, congratulations are in order. This announcement is GREAT for Fedora. Besides his rapier-sharp wit, his keen eye for detail, his unmatched follow-through ability, his wicked sense of humor, his superb people skills, his stentorian speaking voice, and his Perl mastery, spot’s also got (from what I hear) …

As other people have noted, I started my Fedora life as a user of Red Hat Linux back in the day, starting with 4.1 (Vanderbilt?), and became a contributor as soon as I heard about the emergence of Fedora Core 1. And yes, as this implies, I missed a lot …

It’s time for the release notes dance again — the time that comes but twice a year, give or take seven or eight times, when we ask community members, developers, and package maintainers to step up and inform the public about what you’re doing. Fedora is all about innovation — …

As Eleya was cleaning out the bookcase, she found an old “Voyager Tarot” set we bought about 15 years ago. She told me to pull a card and I got this (transcribed from the companion booklet): X. FORTUNE Woo-hoo! The blackamoor bearing the “treasures of Dresden” symbolizes the law of …

Apparently it doesn’t go without saying that hackfests are where amazing stuff gets done fast, so for those of you who missed the memo: HACKFESTS ARE WHERE AMAZING STUFF GETS DONE FAST. Why would I bother parroting this after the FUDCon is already over? Because those of you who are …

At FUDCon, between the late night talk, trying to catch up with email, and the realization that HOLY CRAP I HAVE TO FILL MAX’S SHOES NOW, I got a total of roughly nine hours of sleep divided over three nights. Let’s take a tour from the perspective of someone who doesn’t roll out of bed into a vi session. (Yes, I’m talking about you, lmacken — you so pimp.)

I start Thursday night with a rainy 200 mile drive, and check in at the hotel where I find a gaggle of Fedora buddies preparing to find sustenance. I find out that Bojangles is the place to go for some downhome style cooking if time is of the essence. I file this away and resolve to try it out while in Raleigh.

I meet up with Max shortly thereafter for a great working dinner to talk about succession and strategies, and transfer control of the Fedora Orbital Laser briefcase. We have some great kebabs, conversation, and coffee, and then Max drops me off back at the hotel. Due to uncontrollable flight delays, I end up picking up my friend Jared Smith at the airport at about 1:00 a.m. (Seriously, NO WORRIES, man.) When we get back we get into a fistfight over who’s crashing on the couch, meaning we both want to nobly take the couch. I fade a little by the third round and then he’s got me on the ropes throwing crushers at my kidneys, so I crumble and Jared takes the sofa by decision.

Karsten already posted some information about a get-together we had with the fabulous Leigh Day on the final day of FUDCon. I wanted to add a little more raw content that I transcribed toward the end when Karsten, sadly, had to catch his plane back to sunny Cali: Red Hat …

There are a lot of odd things that can happen when you’re running on about two or three hours of sleep a night, which often happens at FUDCon as well as in campaigns for political office. Some of them can end up on video, such as mistakenly saying the word …

The future is a great place to be. I’ll have more to say on this, and in a less flippant fashion, shortly — probably tomorrow. It’s been a great FUDCon Day 1, though.

Gobby.