Just got a ASUS EeePC 701SD which I picked up from Mark Clanton, after he told me at UTOSC 2009 that he was selling it. Sure, it’s not the newest, latest, greatest netbook out there, but it was a plum price and I don’t have any sort of netbook currently. …
I saw something interesting in my email today — apparently Rawhide (which is rolling toward next week’s Beta release of Fedora 12 even as we speak) and Fedora 11 have received the b43-openfwwf package, which supports a bunch of Broadcom wireless models. You can find out more information about b43-openfwwf …
Some important statistics from the first week of Fedora 11 release: Over 140 Terabytes of Fedora 11 shipped via BitTorrent. Approximately 200,000 direct downloads from unique IP addresses. (Incidentally, there were over 600,000 requests but some IP addresses requested more than one download.) Over 1,000,000 1,200,000 visits to our web …
Did you know that the wonderful Red Hat Creative team put together a video about a couple of the cool features in Fedora 11? Come check it out on the redhat.com site.
Tomorrow is the day — Fedora 11 roars into action! Make sure that you fire up your BitTorrent client and seed for others; help to spread the love! I want to take a moment to thank each and every person who supported this release — whether it was by writing …
Valent, First, if you have questions like this, it’s super-easy to get answers in more immediate and helpful forums. There’s the venerable but still well-populated fedora-list, the general user forum on IRC Freenode at #fedora, and the large community at Fedora Forum, all of which can help with general user …
[This post was supposed to be out yesterday, but somehow I managed to brush my touchpad the wrong way and… well, the dog ate my homework. Or WordPress did. Either way, sorry about the lateness of the hour, and all that. Revised now for more contemporary enjoyment. — Ed.] Yes, …
And it’s Leonidas. Thanks to everyone for participating in the naming process. As Jesse roared after the announcement, “This… is… FEDORAAAAAAA!”
As was just announced on the announcement mailing list*, the voting ballots for the Fedora 11 release name are now open. To vote, you just need to be a member of one non-CLA group in our Fedora Account System. Voting ends at 2359 UTC 2009-01-09, so get your vote in …
FUDCon F11 is rolling mightily along, with a whole mess o’ new names up on the wiki this week. I also notice that many people are signing up for hackfests and BarCamp sessions, which is wonderful. This is always my favorite time in the preparation stages — when people really …