The O/S that keeps me free (as in speech and beer)
“Can China have its own software?” one angry poster writes in response to Microsoft replacing their desktop view with a black screen and (presumably) an offer to buy completely unaffordable genuine Windows software. The answer is yes, yes you can. It’s called Fedora, and it’s free for everyone to use …
Back in late 2006, we in Fedora land were already looking toward a future where anyone could draw bits out of Fedora and make what matters to them. By the time Fedora 7 came around in May 2007, we were already talking about the remix. The “remix” term has a …
I could spend a lot of this blog talking about how incredibly insane it is for our government to be spending another $700B bailing out the greedy, the stupid, and the clueless. I could rail equally against both sides of the aisle for acting as if this wasn’t the exact …
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I think Joe Brockmeier and I tend to have a lot in common on the subject of comporting oneself, as his recent ZDNet blog entry shows. In that entry, Joe looks at this subject from the practical point of view: How will an employer view your flamefests? But the larger …
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 …
Apparently YouTube has one of Microsoft’s new commercials featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld. Was this really a $300 million advertising investment? I’ve watched it and frankly I don’t see how this is going to increase their relevance, reputation, brand awareness, or perceived value to anyone. Unless you really think …
I’m still working out better organizational methods for my email. I tend to keep copies of publicly archived mailing lists. I do a lot of server-side filtering, and all my lists get filed into folders away from my Inbox. My Inbox only contains things sent directly to me. I have …
A couple of days ago, the big heads-up about new RPM hit the lists. Today the other shoe has dropped. Thanks to the RPM hackers working on this codebase — many distributions are going to benefit directly from this work, including but not limited to Fedora.
I think everyone can agree that when one gives Fedora help to someone, one should give the right answer. There’s been a little confusion over in #fedora about making bootable Live USB keys. In the old days, you used to be able to use a command like this to make …