The O/S that keeps me free (as in speech and beer)
I have about a dozen things I need to blog about, but with time right now for only a short blurb, I wanted to point out that I’ll be delivering a keynote session at the Utah Open Source Conference 2008, coming in August to Salt Lake City. I put in …
I’ve been having a problem with the CD+DVD rewritable drive in my Dell laptop. It only recognizes new media about 10-15% of the time, and has a habit of “marking” discs I put in it with small, stuttering scratches. (I learned quickly not to put anything in it I really …
No, we’re not re-releasing. But sometime in the last few hours, Fedora 9 shipped its 100,000th BitTorrent download! That’s in addition to over 235,000 direct downloads we’ve seen through the web proxy logs. Over a third of a million digital copies of Fedora 9 media out in a little over …
My Tuesday in Berlin. This is the long blog post that precedes the next really long blog post about my Wednesday in Berlin. ? Setting the dogs a-barkin’. After a fairly decent night’s sleep, I got up at 0700 to search out some Fruehstueck (breakfast). There was a cozy shop …
In response to this meme: 1 firefox window 7 firefox tabs 1 evolution window 2 evolution message compose windows 1 tomboy note 1 xchat-gnome window, 26 channels
Karsten, I don’t think we should be using, or telling others to use, the /dev/sd* device names at all anymore, when there’s a far better alternative — /dev/disk/*. The /dev/disk/* namespace has several ways for identifying your disks beyond a shadow of a doubt. For instance, /dev/disk/by-label/* files show your …
$ history | awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’|sort -rn|head 125 sudo 110 ls 104 less 68 cd 60 make 49 rpm 38 sed 35 gpg 33 cvs 25 emacs Probably due to a bunch of package messing about.
For the last couple of days I was at FOSE 2008, the biggest IT conference and expo for federal government. I went to help out at the Tux.org booth to promote free and open source software (and, of course, Fedora). I wanted to especially thank Nicholas Brenckle, who headed up …
In between bouts of fighting one of my broken systems at home, I’m trying to spend some time working on our Single Source Summary page on the wiki. In doing that, and in talking to some other people about the Fedora 9 Beta, I found out that some of our …
As my good friend Karsten pointed out, the deadline to sign up as a Google Summer of Code mentor is fast approaching — 31 March to be exact. Ideas are super, but ideas need people power behind them to help guide and monitor the summer coders in their efforts. Please …