That’s right, meta-evil planning continues right here, as I remain appointed to the Fedora Project Board. There was only one appointed seat remaining, and through legerdemain, geomancy, and the deployment of the correct team(s) of evil minions engaged in doing my bidding … well, let’s just say it was no contest. To quote myself: On […]
Category Archives: Fedora
Thank you Mark Reinhold for reaching out to make sure the OpenJDK website was ready for the Fedora 9 release with instructions on installing OpenJDK 6/IcedTea 7 under Fedora 8 and 9 and EPEL 5. Full instructions are here: http://openjdk.java.net/install/#fedora Mucho appreciado a Andrew Overholt, Andrew Haley, and Lillian Angel for technical and functional edits. […]
… in case you haven’t heard. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/WikiMigration If you haven’t heard about this, it might be because your subproject/SIG leadership is already taking care of things. For example, a bunch of us from Fedora Docs have been working on this migration since the beginning, so people in the Docs Project can be fairly sure we […]
Free distro love – an audiocast
19-May-08When we met at CommunityOne to have a “battle of the GNU/Linux distros,” (or “smackdown” as Barton called it,) I didn’t expect it to be imbalanced. But it was. There was entirely too much love, respect, and violent agreement for me. You can witness for yourself by hoisting down this audiocast that includes a cool […]
If you haven’t read the well-reasoned article on FreedomDefined.org about not using the non-commercial (NC) clause of the CC license, please do. Recently I saw Benjamin Mako Hill give a talk about free culture, and he showed some graphics that are several years old about the proliferation of CC licenses, especially which types are used. […]
Partition /dev/sd* namespace FAIL
08-May-08Just as I zipped my backpack closed to head home from JavaOne, I overheard a conversation. One of the JBoss booth staff had been trying to find something on a media for an attendee. I inquired, and it turned out they were looking for Fedora media; one of the fellows had a laptop to resurrect. […]
Hate loves hate, but love loves love
06-May-08Driving back from San Francisco, I thought the whole time about the fairly incredible afternoon I just had. Sometimes you are present, involved, or even instrumental in something that just might be the beginning of a whole new world of love, and the after glow is pretty sweet. OK, this wasn’t really like that, that’s […]
Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful
06-May-08Following up on my post about Jono Bacon’s topic of the ‘vocal minority’, I asked him directly to make it clear that when he is talking about this vocal minority, he really means a relatively small subset of people to whom freedom is the most important feature. Point made and taken. The resulting discussion followed […]
Big on freedom doesn’t mean rabid
05-May-08I’m sure that Jono Bacon didn’t mean to equate everyone who insists on a 100% free software distribution with rabid people-kickers “full of vitriol.” It just sounded as if that is what he meant to say. And since he asked that when we observe people being vitriolic, negative, and oppressive of other’s choices in the […]
This is Gavin King‘s vision of Fedora: Fedora has all the latest and greatest stuff that someone thought of in the shower in the morning and thought “this is the coolest thing ever”. [The] trouble is that you cannot support that for seven years. I think you mitigate the problem of a lot of crazy […]