The O/S that keeps me free (as in speech and beer)
Here’s a summary of today’s activity where I participated or attended: Up at 5:45am so Matthew and I could meet up with Josh Boyer, Tom Callaway, Ruth Suehle, and Joe Brockmeier for breakfast. Then we arrived at the Flock venue early. Helped set up rooms with wifi information for attendees. …
I just bought a new Logitech M570 wireless trackball for use with my Fedora workstation. I favor a trackball over a moving mouse, because it’s easier on the joints, not to mention more practical on a crowded desk. My previous trackball device was a wired Logitech, and it developed a …
Or: I Went to Read This Community Member’s Blog. What She Wrote about RHEL and Fedora Blew me Away! Sorry about the clickbaitism. But seriously, after returning from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 release festivities this evening I planned to write a blog to the Fedora community about how RHEL …
I just saw Robyn’s post on change and her intention to retire as Fedora Project Leader. I’m really happy, Robyn, that you’ve been such a big part of Fedora for these years. Whatever comes next, you have huge thanks from me and I know from many others in the Fedora …
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 …
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 …
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 …