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Category Archives: Fedora

Fedora brand, Red Hat business model, and CentOS love – oh my!

07-Dec-07

In his great answer the secret to Red Hat’s success, Donald Rosenberg really, really, really understands the balance of Red Hat, Fedora, and CentOS. (digg that article if you dug it.) What made me bounce in my seat was this insight: … Red Hat … did not abandon the little people. Instead, they found their […]

Help lead Fedora?

04-Dec-07

Have you ever thought that Fedora could use better leadership and direction?  Or you like what you see and you want more of it? Been expressing your opinions and might have enough others who would vote for you? Nominate yourself for the Fedora Project Board, the elections are underway and voting opens this week. BTW, […]

Fedora feature process f-ing rocks

26-Nov-07

Massive props to John Poelstra and FESCo for the creation and stewardship of the Fedora feature process. As a documenter, this initiative was pretty important to me. I wanted to see that our release overview/summary and full release notes actually talked about features that mattered and were real. Too often we found out about a […]

Seam running under IcedTea on Fedora 8

18-Nov-07

Seam developer and fellow Red Hatter Pete Muir has posted about his adventures with getting Seam running on Fedora 8: http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/SeamOnOpenJDK Best thing about his adventure? Pete ran a “highly unscientific test” and found out that IcedTea outperformed other JDKs: This piqued my interest, so I did a highly unscientific test and installed the Sun […]

Unstalling Fedora Docs

18-Nov-07

We’ve gotten pretty good at community written release notes. A few more silly bugs for Fedora 8 than before (and my bad for not helping to make them better — this is the first release since FC4 where I didn’t edit the entire release notes before they went over for translation), but really nothing to […]