Christopher Blizzard

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Category: 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 heart of many major Linux distributions and probably deserve the same kinds of [...]

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 case.

I’ve always seen this position as both good and bad. It’s [...]

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 my trunk mozilla build and ran them through the ARM toolchain. The [...]

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 don’t know John very well. This interview starts to give a sense of him. Honest, [...]

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 and I grew up together. Working in three cities: Raleigh, Toronto and [...]

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 say I’m incredibly impressed with the commitment that they have decided to make. [...]

snapshots

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 time I would see him I would just look at him and say [...]

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!

Download this video: [Ogg Theora]

Video by Simple Coat.Produced by Julie Bryce and Kristin Hondros.

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 x60 he has.

I’m looking forward to the day I can upgrade from the old [...]