Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 25th, 2008
I’ve been using Fedora 9 for about 9 months now (since I joined Red Hat in April) and I’ve been playing with Fedora 10 pre-releases for the last month or so. I use Fedora 9 on a Lenovo Thinkpad everyday, all day. It is a pleasure to use and It’s absolutely rock-solid – setting a [...]
Posted in open source, Technology on Oct 16th, 2008
Originally uploaded by sharps With a bit of trimming, a swap-file and a new build – I now have Fedora 10 running pretty reliably on the OLPC. I wouldn’t call it snappy exactly but it’s a start. Fedora is running off a writeable live image (using a 4Gb SD Card) which also hosts the swap-file. [...]
Posted in Red Hat, Technology on Sep 26th, 2008
If you’re not already too late – there’s a chance to get your hands on a (mostly) free OLPC if you’re willing to commit to some testing of Fedora on the OLPC. I’ve signed up but fully expect my 7 year old daughter to be doing the testing The mostly free bit is that you [...]
Posted in Technology on Jun 29th, 2008
Neil McAllister over at InfoWorld has what starts like a doom and gloom piece on the demise of Java. Having seen this kind of sensationalist drivel too often I was inclined to ignore it (and the ensuing thread on /.). I’m glad I didn’t i – Neil makes some good points and presents them well. [...]
Posted in open source, Red Hat, Technology, Uncategorized on May 18th, 2008
Last week I installed Fedora 9 on my laptop and so far I like what I see – the desktop and visual effects are pretty nice without being to much of a distraction. Security is pretty solid with encrypted disk and SE Linux if you need it. All in all – everything seems to hang [...]