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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 loved the punchline: But, uhh, is there an Apple logo? Great little dig [...]
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 addition to supporting the packages which have lived with Red Hat + Fedora [...]
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 time I would see him I would just look at him and say [...]
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 grown and maintained by the community. Also what’s interesting to me [...]
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!
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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 up less stuff?
Here’s what we’re going to do for OLPC:
Boot the kernel.
Start udev.
Start [...]
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 – but this time I just used the Fedora 7 LiveCD. It’s just [...]