… and the only way you can prevent it is to test Fedora 10 Alpha. Fortunately this is stupid easy. Grab an Alpha ISO live image, load it on to a USB device, or just run it straight up in a virtual environment either using virt-manager or from the command line: su -c ‘qemu -cdrom […]
Category Archives: FLOSS
A word about Intel’s Moblin and Fedora
25-Jul-08When the Reg article broke about Moblin moving from Ubuntu as a distro base to Fedora, a few people contacted us at the Fedora booth at OSCON to say, “Go talk with those guys right now!” So we did. Folks seem to be wondering similar questions, hopefully this post answers or points in the right […]
Is Fedora for newbies?
21-May-08Last week I responded to an email sent to the webmaster@fp.org address. Most of the replies we make to those emails are stock-answers, such as http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ServerTestPage when they email that Fedora stole their website and replaced it with “your page,” or a pointer to the Fedora communicate and get help page. I felt compelled to […]
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. […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Caught this recently, our local public library has chosen an open source solution (Koha ZOOM) and provider because, “We are convinced that open-source products provide greater functionality and control over what we can do with an ILS system,” (Dan Landry, Director of IT for SCPL). From the press release I was pleased to read that […]
GSoC statistics snapshot
21-Apr-08Do the numbers yourself from “The Fedora Project & JBoss.org” page, but here is my quick dump from what I’ve seen so far: 68 proposals, 45 mentors 12 accepted projects (student slots) Approx 1 in 5 proposals rose to the top 25% of the accepted projects are about Transifex, which is a GSoC project from […]