Not a bad article, all in all. Bit of a personality piece on Nicholas and they used “geek” in the pejorative. But it sounds like they got most of the message. Except they missed the connection of why Intel’s tactics are dangerous to the project. By hiding the true costs of [...]
The ever wonderful Richard Hughes is joining Red Hat as an intern for the summer. He’s only been here for a few days but he’s already totally rocking our suspend/resume infrastructure for Fedora 7 and fixing kernel problems on the x60 he has.
I’m looking forward to the day I can upgrade from the old [...]
We announced a pile of things at the Red Hat Summit. Lots of confusing articles have been written. Lots of press releases have been sent out filled with warnings about forward looking statements. Maybe you just want the run down on all the things that happened. This is your simple cheat sheet. [...]
The ATI marketing guy on stage (Henri Richard) at the Red Hat Summit just committed to fixing the ATI problems with open source. To paraphrase “most people are worried about what they will lose…IP, etc…we’re worried about what we can win.” They know it’s a problem and they are committed to fixing it.
I’ll be in San Diego for the 2007 Red Hat Summit. Doing a talk on Wednesday about OLPC and doing a lot of press in between talks.
There’s a point at which a service on the web becomes fun and useful. With “social networking sites” it’s usually that point at which enough of your friends are using something it and it lets you connect in a unique way. If you’re into stalking old high school girl friends it’s facebook, or [...]
I’ve been quietly waiting for someone from OLPC to say something officially and it sounds like a quote has finally made it into an ars technica article:
According to Walter Bender, president of Software and Content at OLPC, there is no agreement in place between OLPC and Microsoft to offer XO laptops with any version of [...]
Bryan pointed me at this very excited review about the upcoming Fedora 7. The neat thing is that he really gets why Fedora 7 is such an important release for us and also for the rest of the free and open source software community. The main feature of Fedora 7, aside from lots [...]
Red Hat has a few job openings to work on the One Laptop per Child project:
Software Engineer II: This terrible job title is code for awesome engineer. We’re looking to build an update system for OLPC that isn’t the usual yum/rpm/deb/apt system and we need awesome strong CS-focused people to make it happen. [...]