Category Archives: Fedora

startup times

Posted on June 8, 2007 by Christopher Blizzard

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 →

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fedora is now an open source project

Posted on June 2, 2007 by Christopher Blizzard

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 →

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welcome, richard!

Posted on May 20, 2007 by Christopher Blizzard

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 →

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summary from the red hat summit

Posted on May 14, 2007 by Christopher Blizzard

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

Posted on May 9, 2007 by Christopher Blizzard

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 →

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red hat summit 2007

Posted on May 9, 2007 by Christopher Blizzard

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

Posted on May 4, 2007 by Christopher Blizzard

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 →

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fedora 7: it’s the community, stupid

Posted on May 2, 2007 by Christopher Blizzard

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 →

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job openings for olpc

Posted on May 2, 2007 by Christopher Blizzard

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 →

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the journal for one laptop

Posted on April 22, 2007 by Christopher Blizzard

Bryan finally posted something about the Journal idea that he and Seth had been worked on way back when. We’re using a lot of these ideas for some of the basic interactions in OLPC. His mockup was rudimentary, as most … Continue reading →

Posted in Design, Fedora, Mugshot, OLPC | 9 Comments