Category Archives: OLPC

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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snapshots

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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