Category Archives: Red Hat

Related to my work at Red Hat.

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

Posted in Fedora, Red Hat | 5 Comments

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

whatwg video support for your phone

Above is a video that I took of Chris Double’s awesome whatwg video work running on my N810. Note that I didn’t have to do anything special to get this to work. I took the two patches, applied them to … Continue reading

Posted in Firefox, Freedom, GNOME, Linux, Mobile, Mozilla, N800, N810, Open Web, Red Hat, Video, XULRunner | 11 Comments

pile of random firefox and mozilla stuff

I have a pile-o-stuff to post about here. In no particular order. Interview with John Lilly on GigaOM Interview starts about 4 minutes in. There’s a large number of people in the Mozilla community (outside of the Corporation staff) that … Continue reading

Posted in Design, Firefox, GNOME, Linux, Mobile, Mozilla, Red Hat, Speaking | 1 Comment

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

Posted in AMD, Fedora, Freedom, GNOME, Red Hat | 95 Comments

snapshots

Posted in General, GNOME, OLPC, Red Hat | 3 Comments

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

welcome, richard!

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

Posted in Fedora, GNOME, Red Hat | 5 Comments