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

Know thy SELF.

Yes, I’m sorry about that one too. But are you getting ready for the Southeast Linux Fest? It’s coming this Saturday — a superb gathering of Linux community members, speakers from a number of different projects (including Yr Humble Blogger doing the evening keynote), and all sorts of projects to …

Savers unite.

As everyone knows by now, Microsoft is yet another in the huge roster of companies shedding jobs in 2009 — in the MS case, 5,000 of them, out of a total roster of about 95,000 employees. For a sense of perspective, that’s about twice the total number of employees at …

Fedora video bonanza.

The great thing about the Fedora community is that when there’s work to be done, people roll up their sleeves and pitch in. That’s exactly what happened at our most recent Fedora Users and Developers Conference (FUDCon) in Boston a couple weeks ago, where volunteers banded together to provide audio …

Revenge of balloon-head.

FUDCon news. Another sign that one shouldn’t spend a lot of time emailing large groups of people while on decongestants: //www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-December/msg00000.html //www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-December/msg00003.html //www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-December/msg00004.html Long and short is, though, that FUDCon F11 is in full swing, and coming up January 9-11 in Boston. All the important details are on the wiki, …

How about that desktop?

I figured while I’m in a super-bloggy mood today I’d add this tidbit. Someone asked me a question about what might be missing from distributions like Fedora that would help it reach more users. This question isn’t new and I’ve given the subject a lot of thought over the last …