Category Archives: Fedora

razor

Kristian Høgsberg recently mention that razor has a home. Nice to see that someone is finally taking the time to invest in something to update yum and rpm. Like rpm or not, it’s still a technology that are at the … Continue reading

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I call lolerskates

I lost power last night and I finally decided it was time to buy a UPS. I’ve never actually owned one. I go out to the store this morning and buy one, bring it home, plug it in and I … Continue reading

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fedora + seneca college

Hey, this is awesome stuff. Nice job, Greg! It’s going to be a great fit. The Seneca guys are fantastic.

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system components, fsync and distribution-specific changes: a cautionary tale

Almost every single Firefox user on Linux gets their builds directly from the various distributions. Ubuntu, Fedora, Red Hat, Debian (down-branded), Novell, Foresight, etc. And in those cases users generally have a pretty good experience. But that’s not always the … Continue reading

Posted in Fedora, Firefox, GNOME, Linux, Mozilla, Novell, Red Hat, Ubuntu | 21 Comments

awesome, dennis!

Great news that Dennis Gilmore will be joining the OLPC team to help them out with builds. He will be a real asset to the team. His experience with the infrastructure inside of Fedora will really help with the OLPC … Continue reading

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and now everything will be different

Today is my last day working at Red Hat. I’ve been there for nearly nine years – most of my adult life – and I have a lot of fond memories. In some ways I would say that Red Hat … Continue reading

Posted in Fedora, GNOME, Mozilla, Red Hat | 34 Comments

a new road for AMD and ATI

Back at the Red Hat Summit, Henri Richard said that AMD (and the former ATI) were going to come up with a plan to better support open source. Today we see the results of that promise and I have to … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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