Monthly Archives: June 2007

great iphone review from david pogue

[ Via Leon. ] David Pogue has a wonderful little review of the iPhone. He’s an acquired taste, I think, but fits my sense of humor very well: silly, good points, and lots of over the top audience participation. I … Continue reading

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Posted in General, GNOME, OLPC, Red Hat | 3 Comments

making translations easier for everyone

Demitris Glezos has been doing some awesome work on the new Fedora Translation site. Unlike a lot of translation projects, where the focus has been on improving that one project (KDE, GNOME, Ubuntu, whatever) his approach has been different. In … Continue reading

Posted in Fedora, OLPC | 6 Comments

system desktop startup on Fedora: let’s do it in 20 seconds

I’m so glad that Richard Hughes took the lead on getting the system activation code in place and is trying to get it upstream into D-Bus. I think that David Zeuthen was starting to avoid me in the office. Every … Continue reading

Posted in Fedora, GNOME, OLPC, Red Hat | 13 Comments

Fedora 7-11: brought to you by revisor

As Max points out, someone composed a complete set of Fedora 7 CDs: 11 in total. Our last release, Fedora Core 6 only included 5 CDs. So that gives you a sense of the number of packages that have been … Continue reading

Posted in Fedora, Freedom | 1 Comment

mesh networking overview in red hat magazine

Dan Williams, John Palmieri and Miguel Alvarez talk about the mesh networking in the laptop. They talk about the low level connectivity bits as well as the higher level set of activities and architecture that we’re building. Great job guys! … Continue reading

Posted in Design, GNOME, OLPC, Red Hat | 3 Comments

startup times

There’s a lot of work in Fedora now to try and fix init scripts. Adding dependencies, hooking up event systems, lots of shell scripting, etc. In the desktop case, why isn’t the actual solution to start up times just starting … Continue reading

Posted in Fedora, OLPC | 20 Comments

fedora is now an open source project

Yesterday, like thousands of other people, I downloaded a copy of Fedora 7 and installed it. In the past I’ve always had to download a few CDs or a huge DVD – and a lot of people are doing that … Continue reading

Posted in Design, Fedora, GNOME | 4 Comments