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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
This is a little bit of a “fluff” post to satisfy those readers that are hitting my blog based on the title of a post in April 2009 (before the Fedora 12 Schedule was even finalized) who maybe disappointed by… Continue Reading →
In a previous post I mentioned my recent use of Freemind. In this follow-up post I wanted to talk about what I’ve found and how I think we should move forward. I couldn’t figure out a good way to attach… Continue Reading →
Ever since first reading about mind mapping I’ve used mind maps often to help clarify my thinking. Bringing clarity to complicated and unclear situations is satisfying to me. I like mapping out the complexities of a problem without explicitly trying… Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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