Miguel is completely right; It is a lot of work. The question is how you get there. The big thing about the AIGLX approach is that it’s incremental. The path to get from here to there allows us to leverage the strengths we have, allow people to participate as their hardware allows [...]
Both John and Chris have mentioned the new hotness that we’re testing in FC5. I thought that I would add some comments on this:
Some people have characterized this as “Red Hat vs. Novell.” This is the wrong way to frame this. True, Dave at Novell is the one who is largely responsible for the [...]
I’m a firm believer in the “release early, release often” mantra. And in that capacity, I would like to share some of the work that Red Hat has done on some of the base software for the OLPC hardware platform. We’ve been focused on a couple of things so far:
o Building an emulator [...]
It’s been well known that Red Hat has been involved in the One Laptop Per Child project. I’ve recently been asked to head up a bunch of the integration and community work for Red Hat for the OLPC project. It’s a great opportunity and I’m looking forward to it.
My travel to India has been my first introduction to real jet lag. I went to Germany last summer, but that experience doesn’t hold a candle to this. I’ve moved on from the stage where you’re really, really tired in the afternoon to where you’re only able to sleep for four hours a night. If [...]
<kevin> it’s always one little thing that’s broken
<tony> it was always one little thing on the PDP-8, too
I would like to ask an interesting question: what if open source software is simply a side effect? When I look at successful projects what I see is not people who are out to create software that’s open source. Instead what I see people who have two passions: technology and working together to [...]
This morning I’m leaving for india. I’ll be at FUDCon at LinuxAsia in Delhi on February 9th. On the 10th I will be co-hosting a BoF on Mozilla along with Brian Behlendorf and Danese Cooper. Come and visit us if you’re in the area!