Linux, musical road-dogging, and daily life by Paul W. Frields
 
Category: <span>Red Hat</span>

FUDCon notelets, no. 2.

A couple tidbits related to the FUDCon Toronto 2009 event happening in a few months, of particular interest for travelers coming from outside Canada: Check with your mobile phone provider ahead of time, to check your coverage. Nothing sucks more than coming back from an event to find a huge …

Even keel, arrr.

(I’m not ready for International Talk Like a Pirate day to be over, apparently, given the subject line.) Spot, in response to your insightful post, your experience at Atlanta Linux Fest seems a bit different from the many distribution-agnostic events that happen every year, like SELF, UTOSC, LinuxTag, and Ontario …

Chi love.

Tomorrow morning I’ll be heading down to the Richmond airport to head out for the world-renowned, forward-looking, future-proofing, often imitated, never equaled Red Hat Summit in Chicago.  I’m giving a talk on Wednesday afternoon on how Fedora fits into the overall Linux development strategy at Red Hat. But I’ll also …

Notable notables.

Fedora’s very own John Rose is among the winners of the 2009 RHCE of the Year award bestowed by Red Hat. I wanted to extend a very hearty congratulations to John and the rest of the winners, and thank him for all the fine work he does in the Fedora …

Tornado strike.

Every so often I take a trip up to Red Hat’s office in Westford so I can sit down face to face with people to make sure we’re doing all we can to enable our community to do awesome things. These trips are always jam-packed with meetings and so I …

Spare hours FAIL.

Today in a nutshell, since I’m running on empty and can’t be creative right now: 0700: Left house for Raleigh. 1030: Arrive Red Hat. Meet Max just as I’m about to enter the building, and almost fail to recognize him because his hair’s so short. ? Head upstairs, open laptop, …