Monthly Archives: May 2007

decent article on 60 minutes

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 … Continue reading

Posted in OLPC, Tee Vee | 16 Comments

welcome, richard!

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 … Continue reading

Posted in Fedora, GNOME, Red Hat | 5 Comments

summary from the red hat summit

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 … Continue reading

Posted in Design, Fedora, Freedom, GNOME, Mugshot, OLPC, Red Hat | 15 Comments

ati + open source

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 … Continue reading

Posted in Fedora, Freedom, GNOME, Red Hat | 69 Comments

red hat summit 2007

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.

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critical mass for mugshot

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 … Continue reading

Posted in Fedora, Mugshot | 5 Comments

one laptop per child and open source

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 … Continue reading

Posted in Freedom, OLPC | 27 Comments

fedora 7: it’s the community, stupid

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 … Continue reading

Posted in Fedora, OLPC | 12 Comments

job openings for olpc

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 … Continue reading

Posted in Fedora, OLPC, Red Hat | 6 Comments