http://fedora-tutorials.com Fedora: when you're ready to wear your big boy pants Mon, 05 May 2008 06:26:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, usually I forget to take pictures, because either A) I forget my camera [I brought it this time] or 2) I get wrapped up in the event and forget to bring it with me.  But this release party, I plain just forgot to charge my batteries for my camera, ... http://fedora-tutorials.com/2008/05/05/utah-fedora-linux-release-party-results/ The following two articles were published in the past couple days.  When they were published and made known to me, I was saddened: Report: OLPC may eventually switch from Linux to Windows XP Nicholas Negroponte on Sugar and One Laptop Per Child It appears, that Greg DeKoenigsberg responded (it appears) to these two ... http://fedora-tutorials.com/2008/04/24/the-olpc-deserves-better/ As many of you may already know, Fedora 9 (codename: Sulphur) has been pushed back 2 weeks to May 13.  Being the organizer of the Utah Fedora/Ubuntu Linux Release Party on May 3, its kind of hard to push it back because Ubuntu's release is still on time. I'm glad though ... http://fedora-tutorials.com/2008/04/18/i-guess-well-wait/ My T60p. [clints@herlo-lap ~]$ history|awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head 144 svn 144 cd 108 ls 104 ./manage.py 101 ssh 69 su 43 screen 26 vim 25 rm 15 ping [clints@thor ~]$ history|awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head 266 git 260 make 71 cd 57 ls 55 vim 55 rt 26 rm 19 bin/send-patch 18 grep 16 bin/validate I guess I love RCS'. Cheers, Herlo http://fedora-tutorials.com/2008/04/12/succumbing-to-the-pressure/ I was perusing today, and maybe its just because its April Fools day and I've not posted, but I thought this was pretty hilarious... If you click to add a new calendar item into Google Calendar, you get a new button "I'm Feeling Lucky"... After clicking this new button I recognized, here's ... http://fedora-tutorials.com/2008/04/01/is-google-calendar-really-that-lucky/ So I've done it. Yes, I really have done it this time! Well, maybe...time will tell. I've gone and posted an idea for a project on the Fedora wiki page for the Google Summer of Code (GSoC), but that's not all, no! In addition, I took the time to apply to be a mentor ... http://fedora-tutorials.com/2008/03/26/google-summer-of-code-jumping-into-the-fire/ Get yourself some of that sulphur love! From the mouth of the daring Mike McGrath: The beta is live.  Go out, get people and try to crash the servers!  The challenge is on :-P http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease Personally, I've been on Rawhide (the development tree) since February.  While there have been some bumpy roads, most of it ... http://fedora-tutorials.com/2008/03/25/fedora-9-beta-is-now-available/ Recently, I've been very interested in getting involved more and more with the Fedora Project.  In fact, the latest project in which I'm involved, the Getting Involved Guide (GIG). I started with this guide because my so-called friend Jared Smith (hi Jared!), introduced me to the original creator of this document, ... http://fedora-tutorials.com/2008/02/28/fedora-getting-involved-guide-gig/ Its been a very long time since I've done the Product of the Week, so I am going to change the name to Product of Whenever. This suits me better. In July of 2001, I was introduced to a little editing tool many of us now know fondly, the wiki. ... http://fedora-tutorials.com/2008/02/28/pow-gobby-the-little-engine-that-could-collaborate/ All I've got to say is "I had nothing to do with starting it, but it happened anyway.  And I had fun!" Cheers, Herlo PS - I'm awaiting myspace friend approval for those in the know. http://fedora-tutorials.com/2008/02/27/re-applebees-meetings-should-never-be-this-fun/