The O/S that keeps me free (as in speech and beer)
Tomorrow is the day — Fedora 11 roars into action! Make sure that you fire up your BitTorrent client and seed for others; help to spread the love! I want to take a moment to thank each and every person who supported this release — whether it was by writing …
I drove down from Fredericksburg yesterday in about 3.5 hours, and checked in. Found that Rex was already there but had eaten dinner, and met up with Alex Maier, Greg DeKoenigsberg, and his wife for dinner, and managed to accrete Seth Vidal and his SO. Jesse Keating and I are …
The Fedora Project has always been aimed at encouraging participation. Free/libre and open source software continues its forward momentum and increasing pace through the growth of community and contribution. And Fedora plays a large role in that motion, through our rapid release cycle, our dedication to working with upstream software …
If you weren’t able to attend the town halls, you missed out on seeing the FESCo and Board candidates answering questions from the community about their views on the Project, the distribution, and the future. However, all the sessions were logged and linked on our Elections wiki page. Thanks to …
With the election season underway in Fedora, our community’s been spending some quality time with FESCo candidates in the town hall meetings today. Tomorrow, the Board candidates will be available on IRC for your questions. I happen to be moderating the session at 1400 UTC (10:00am US/Eastern), and John Rose …
I had set aside so much of this weekend for catching up on work, but thanks to my server outage it ended up being devoted to data recovery and reconfiguration. However, it did remind me of three things that I often take for granted: Having an easy installer with just …
The interview I did with Randal Schwartz and Leo Laporte is now up at the Twit.tv site. The FLOSS Weekly show is a very enjoyable podcast with top-notch production quality and two great hosts. I highly recommend it, if you haven’t heard it before. Interestingly, Leo told me he is …
[This post was supposed to be out yesterday, but somehow I managed to brush my touchpad the wrong way and… well, the dog ate my homework. Or WordPress did. Either way, sorry about the lateness of the hour, and all that. Revised now for more contemporary enjoyment. — Ed.] Yes, …
Fedora has been running IRC classes for some time in the #fedora-classroom channel on IRC Freenode. Classes are scheduled for this weekend, and they’re at a convenient time for people in the APAC (Asia/Pacific) region to hold informative sessions with Fedora contributors. The classroom “days” for both Saturday and Sunday …
It’s good to see that the kernel developers as always are seeing that we get the latest file system support. The exFAT format is apparently something that Microsoft is pushing for large removable media. Of course Linux will be there to provide compatibility for those of us who prefer freedom. …