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Grieving With Others

When was the last time something on Fedora Planet made you cry? I mean really weep. It hadn’t happened to me until I read Russell’s post. Russell, my heart and prayers are with you and your wife. I particularly appreciated… Continue Reading →

Core Fedora Functionality

I’ve been banging the drum about the Fedora Board resolving its discussion about the target audience for Fedora’s primary distribution.  Ultimately it is a bigger conversation about the strategic direction of the Fedora distribution and what it wants to be… Continue Reading →

The Fedora Board So Far

As we start into 2010 and development of Fedora 13, it seemed like a good time to reflect on the the first half of my term as a Fedora board member.  I would be interested to see other board members… Continue Reading →

Gobby Makes Meetings Better

At a recent project management class at Portland State University, Tonia McConnell–a great instructor I’ve worked with in other classes–asked me how my meetings were going.  Since my first class with Tonia I’ve used Gobby more deliberately in a lot… Continue Reading →

Inconsolata: A Great Fixed Width Font

The Fedora Project’s in person events are great for picking up new applications and tips from other people.   I love it when little surprises come along that make the desktop experience more pleasant.  Discovering Terminator was the last time this… Continue Reading →

Fedora on a Dell XPS M1330

Ten months ago (March 2009) I got a new work notebook to replace a broken and out of warranty Thinkpad T41.  After going back and forth between the Lenovo Thinkpad x61s and the Dell XPS M1330 I decided on the… Continue Reading →

Addicted to Fedora Updates

I am a consumer of Fedora Updates–updated software shipped for supported Fedora releases.  I greatly appreciate the work so many package (software) maintainers do in Fedora to make these updates available.  I confess to rarely, if ever, being able to… Continue Reading →

Fedora 10 RIP

Yesterday all open Fedora 10 bugs were closed. Fedora 10 is officially end-of-life (EOL) and is no longer maintained. No more updates will be shipped for it. This ends the Fedora 12 Bugzilla Housekeeping process. Thanks to everyone who helped… Continue Reading →

FUDCon Toronto Trip Report

FUDCon Toronto 2009 is over and I’m on the way home. I Attended some good barcamp sessions: Cloud Computing + Fedora and Amazon EC2 Fedora, Zikula and Fedora Insight Can’t we all just get along? – Sysadmin & Developer Panel… Continue Reading →

Marketing to Fedora's Target Audience

I am thinking of Fedora in light of an article about Billy Mays on Copy Bloggler. “So how do you know if the product you’re currently selling or developing is great… and easy to sell? According to Billy Mays your… Continue Reading →

Addicted to Opining

Chris Brogan raises some interesting thoughts and questions in his post “Are We Addicted to Giving Our Own Opinions” The tools we use for social media have empowered us to be steady-flow commentators. Watch Twitter or Facebook during any event,… Continue Reading →

Fedora Target Audience & Release Criteria

As the Fedora Board and larger community has discussed what we want our releases to be and who they are for–Target Audience–I’ve wondered more and more if a reworking of our Release Criteria could help make parts of our decision… Continue Reading →

Fedora Talk Activity Day

The Fedora Talk “activity day” was two full days packed with good discussions, learning more about Asterisk, sharing some good laughs, and getting a lot done.  Paul Frields did a great job coordinating the logistics for the event including our… Continue Reading →

More FedoraTalk And More Action

The long anticipated Fedora Talk Activity Day starts this Friday. If you have ideas or special needs for Fedora Talk, please update the use cases on the wiki.  See our overall plan for additional details. We’ve been doing as much… Continue Reading →

Add The Key For Signed Rawhide

Somewhere along the line the packages in rawhide (soon to be Fedora 12) became signed.  This is a good thing.  I don’t run a current rawhide box all the time so I’m probably the last one to know, but tonight… Continue Reading →

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