This Thursday, is the Red Hat/Fedora SIG Meetup in Melbourne. Come, listen to Mike Barnes talk about Fedora on the Alpha platform!
[cc@bigmac ~]$ rpm -qa udev; ls /dev|wc -l
udev-038-2
195
So, as long as dev was installed before, udev gracefully removes it, and /dev is still at 195 entries and things are working well on the Mac.
I’ve been on the nahant-beta-list for a while now and don’t notice a heap of posts there, like the users you’d get on Fedora lists, or the testers on fedora-test-list. Either RHEL4-beta “just works”, or many aren’t testing it as rigorously as they are Fedora. I wonder what Red Hat’s thoughts on this are, as they created the “split”.
Also notice many hundreds of posts on fedora-list that are still Fedora Core 1 related. These should all be on Legacy list, or should not exist at all – its unsupported already (unless its security updates via Legacy). Why are end users still on FC1?
Panu brought up the topic of the default browser in FC3. We now include Firefox, Mozilla, and Epiphany, with the default being set to the latter, as opposed to Firefox. The GNOME choice is Epiphany, and Fedora sticks with upstream right? Ironic that down in Ubuntu land, they’ve gone Firefox too (with all the GNOME big ‘uns there).
Popped the nice new Specifix Linux 0.11 alpha. It now sports a graphical installer, which worked on the i845-based graphics card for the installation. Upon start-up, manual loading of i810 to get X working was required. Some of the Specifix Linux anaconda snaps…
Wow. Just installed Ubuntu (daily ISO) on the iMac DV SE. It all just works. Sound is auto-configured, X is auto-configured (like everything!), nice 2.6.8 kernel, mouse button emualtion works out of the box. smbfs isn’t installed by default, it lacks MP3 support (doh, all sane distros do), but everything about it and its GNOME integration make it very clean. Interesting to note that Epiphany isn’t installed, but Firefox is the default browser! Apple Pro keyboard is a little weirdly configured, anyways, Bugzilla.ubuntu has seen some of me.
Richard Stallman is in Melbourne for most of the week (till Sunday?), and today was at the Telstra Auditorium giving a very good talk about free software. Some rough notes from the talk entitled The Free Software Movement & The GNU/LINUX Operating System.
How lucky can we get? Jdub two days ago, RMS today. He’s also at UniMelb tomorrow.
Fedora News Updates #16, is out. First, apologies for a late, tiny release! FC3test2 has been released, FC1’s has been passed on to Fedora Legacy. Fedora Bugweek is almost ending, participate! There’s some new documentation for translators as well. And there’s a lot of other bits and pieces, and expect a lot more in the next week or so. Get into the groove to make it better, there are still about 80 threaded messages that I have to look at for next week, which I better do.
Damn comment spammers read Security Focus.
So a lot of people are worried about Sun selling out OpenOffice.org to Microsoft. Its been creating a lot of noise on the lists, people worrying that as users they’re in trouble; developers worrying that by signing the JCA, they’re in trouble.
Scratch whatever I was going to write, because it seems there’s an FAQ out there about the whole situation, titled: FAQs about OpenOffice.org and its mission. Hmm, without CC approval; but there’s an assurance that it’ll get fixed by next week. Couple that with Louis reassurances, as well as Danese Cooper’s comments, I think we’re relative safe.
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