Things are coming together for the next release of Fedora–Fedora 12! The Fedora 12 Alpha will be publicly available next Tuesday, August 25, 2009. Admittedly the term “Public Availability” sounds funny in Fedora… it isn’t as if the bits have… Continue Reading →
I’m looking for a new LCD wide screen monitor in the 22″ range. Contrary to the current industry trend, the biggest monitor possible is not what I’m looking for. More real estate for distractions is not really what I need…. Continue Reading →
Yesterday all open Fedora 9 bugs were closed. Fedora 9 is officially end-of-life (EOL) and is no longer maintained. No more updates will be shipped for it. This ends the Fedora 11 Bugzilla Housekeeping process. Thanks to everyone who helped… Continue Reading →
As a follow-up to my posts on the testing and releng lists I met today with James Laska, Jesse Keating, Bill Nottingham, Paul Frields to harness the power of Fedora Talk and Gobby to hammer out the Release Engineering and… Continue Reading →
The overall Fedora 12 schedule remains unchanged, but we are still working on tuning the individual sub-team schedules. We had a really fantastic meeting on Friday documenting the Design Schedule for Fedora 12. It was an open meeting, announced on… Continue Reading →
Before too much time escapes here is a post on Day Two of Open Source Bridge. As several others have noted, the talks at Open Source Bridge were consistently very good and covered a variety of open source topics. I… Continue Reading →
If you are experiencing the problem of not being able to set your sound as loud as you may have in previous releases here is the fix as described in bug 498747: $ su -c ‘yum install alsa-utils; alsamixer -c… Continue Reading →
Today was an excellent first day of Open Source Bridge Conference. The organizers reported approximately 400 pre-registered attendees and the room hosting the opening keynotes appeared to be close to full. Live streaming of the keynotes and some of the… Continue Reading →
This morning (7 AM local time) we had the Fedora 11 retrospective. I thought it went pretty well and people on the phone seemed to enjoy it. If you didn’t enjoy it or have ideas for making future retrospectives better… Continue Reading →
Thank you Paul! I am honored to accept an appointed seat on the Fedora Board and looking forward to the year ahead. Having served as the secretary to the Fedora board for roughly the past two years I’ve recorded a… Continue Reading →
I’ve been participating remotely in the Fedora Activity Day (FAD) in Raleigh, NC. The sound quality over Fedora Talk is extremely good calling in with a regular phone (with the exception of other people forgetting to mute), though it is… Continue Reading →
Fedora 11 is released tomorrow, June 9, 2009, and you can get it at http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora. On Friday I announced an upcoming retrospecitve for Fedora 11, happening on June 16, 2009. I’m hoping this gathering will be a collaborative brainstorming meeting… Continue Reading →
I learned about TechShop Portland at Lunch2.0 a couple weeks ago. It looks like other Fedorans are already on to this phenomenon. TechShop is a a do-it-yourself play ground for people that like to make stuff. They have equipment for… Continue Reading →
One of the best things to come out of the development cycle for Fedora 11 is a continuous stream of test days. James Laska with the help of Adam Williamson shows up every week to lead the charge–sometimes twice in… Continue Reading →
This video called Auto Tuning makes me laugh every time I watch it. And I’ve watched it several because because I’ve been “Blake” more times than I can remember. It is a hilarious illustration and reminder of how challenging some… Continue Reading →
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