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 team and various countries take advantage of everything that Fedora and that community [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 are dangerous to the project. By hiding the true costs of [...]
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 on all the things that happened. This is your simple cheat sheet. [...]
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 no agreement in place between OLPC and Microsoft to offer XO laptops with any version of [...]
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 open source software community. The main feature of Fedora 7, aside from lots [...]