rhel4 launch
FC4/ppc test1
Waah. Fedora Core 4 test1 has been baked on PPC, and will be installable for all of you. *grin* I should update the notes, because the boot.iso method is still required, but this time iirc, the eject stuff should work (ala you don’t require a pin). And there’s no more breaking into a console and running stuff. X generally works, but if you see issues with anaconda not detecting the proper X config during startup, try the resolution=1024×768 for example to see if things magically work.
RHEL 4 launch
Thursday was the RHEL4 launch in Melbourne. I don’t know why I go, but I can say the breakfast at least, was good. Oh wait, I remember, I go there as the Fedora spy. I like the way RHEL4 has been described: “Shared base technology, all open source, matured by the Fedora Project”. That was on the official RH slides, afaik. However, what was said is always another question.
“The 2.6 kernel was chosen some 6 months ago by competitors, and in my view it was a grave mistake because we didn’t think the 2.6 line was ready - 2.6.9 was what worked for us,” stated the chief of engineering in Brisbane. Really? I don’t think a lot of the kernel people would agree; I always thought that you couldn’t push a 2.6 kernel to RHEL3, and by default, you waited to launch RHEL4 (and you didn’t want to do that before FC-3 came out).
“Fedora is a testing bed for RHEL,” he continues. Next he goes on to mention that ever 3-4 months there’s a release (I think we’ve been pretty consistient at a 6-month release, awaiting gnome/ooo/other-major-apps releases), its a roll-forward project that guarantees to break backward compatibility (really?), and is good for R&D only, never for deployment.
I know I’ve got the fedora traffic stuff on my plate for the week, but if there’s one thing I’ll try to do before the next FESCO meeting (i.e. throughout the week), I am going to kickstart Fedora Marketing. I’ve said this before, but was travelling and too drained of energy, but its going to happen. Really.
Life
Bought a pink-colored iPod Mini. With its sweet 18-hour battery life, its an amazing little toy. Plugged it in, loaded songs to it, and then realised that it was a hfs-based partition. *groan* Normally I’d have no problem with that (my iPod is hfs based), but this is for the girl, so vfat seemed more appropriate; so a format and conversion later, its time to re-load songs on. Why doesn’t Apple just ship these things with vfat?
For future knowledge, if making a milk bath, and google’ing for recipes, don’t bother. 1KG of full cream milk powder, running hot water, and about 4 cans of whipped cream is all you need. Though if you spread the cream on the water, it tends to look a little dirty - so make sure its on the sides of the tub or something. Caught Saved! which I could recommend if you weren’t too overwhelmed by the entire religion thing.
Oh and if you ever get to see Paul singing karaoke, its really good. That song is one he does really, really, really, well! Though I always thought it went, “oh pretty dears” when he sang it, but I could’ve heard wrongly.