Posted on 8/8/2004, 1:52 am, by Colin Charles, under
General.
Fedora super-secret-project
So, the wiki is setup, and a big thank you to Seth for that. If you’re reading this and are mildly interested in promoting Fedora, increasing its usage, and get your hands dirty harnessing folk, the fedora-marketing-list is a good place to hang out at. For the various brain dumps that Jack/me have come up with, read the August archives. We also have fedora-marketing in Bugzilla to track “bugs” for the project – which will have to get a webpage and all the material from the brain dumps up to spec. There’s been no PR/launch of this project yet, but let’s see if this “post” gets more folk on the list (with ideas, etc…)
Fedora PPC update…
So, if you’ve got some funky new G4, especially if its a laptop, the duke tree will most likely not work for you. It needs some newer support for laptops as well as some Branch Target ICache (BTIC) disabling. Of course naturally, you’d only find out when folks are actually doing an install :P
There might also be a bug in parted in that tree. “Attempt to read sectors 2-3 outside of partition on /dev/hda”. Bah. Can’t say if this will appear on all new laptops/desktops, but its definitely a possible problem that one should be aware of. mac-fdisk is what needs to be used in that case (use it manually in a console, so when anaconda gets to it, its all magically there).
Posted on 6/8/2004, 8:15 am, by Colin Charles, under
General.
This is what I proposed we startup back in the day when we planned for national Linux roll-out’s. MAMPU have got their OSCC Knowledge Bank ready, and it sure seems neat. Will this survive? Will this be used?
Whatever you may say, Apple has a good knowledge base – information in one central location is very important. Even Microsoft got it correct (even though some of the information they place there is laughable at). Red Hat have one too.
Which major open source project has one though? A good support knowledge base is integral to making your software work for end-users. I tried with OpenOffice.org – many different “leaders” with different vested interests (merging up to 3 sub-projects was never going to be easy). That’s okay, Fedora can start off the right way.
Posted on 3/8/2004, 1:38 am, by Colin Charles, under
General.
Are there more tip-related blogs like Steve’s Fedora GNU/Linux Blog? Or GNOME Tips ‘n’ Hacks. If you’d comment on this post, I’d love to see more, be it Linux-based, Fedora-based, OpenOffice.org-based, GNOME-based, etc… (you get the picture).
Posted on 31/7/2004, 3:21 pm, by Colin Charles, under
General.
Fedora News Update #14 is out. More interestingly, Fedora has made the top-level of redhat.com – we have our own page at http://www.redhat.com/fedora/. And to top it all off, Red Hat Blogs exists, feeding Fedora People, as well as the executive blogs (which will get populated sometime this week?).
Posted on 30/7/2004, 3:55 am, by Colin Charles, under
General.
I updated the Fedora PPC guide sometime yesterday. Sleep issues on the G3 definitely down to acme/gnome-settings-daemon causing a conflict with pmud. Simple way out of this for all users that want sleep to work is to use XFce4 or even KDE (as per my post). Can’t find pmud conflicts at Debian or upstream GNOME bug trackers, so I’m wondering if its something Fedora specific.
Posted on 29/7/2004, 7:50 am, by Colin Charles, under
General.
I’m finally with the times, running FC3 test1. PC Gemilang now runs an everything install, and an upgrade is being performed right now – I think it can be permanently set on Rawhide or something from now on. Another shitbox with SiS hardware all over it also has gotten FC3test1 on it – everything seems to “just work”. Just remember to exclude curl* at the moment. Have the Conary (Specifix) ISO sitting here, I should pop that on soon.
If you haven’t already seen this, Gay Boyfriend is hilarious. Caught a glimpse at Apple’s Design Awards last month, I finally have a copy of my own now. Additional fun from the Debian crew as hadess points out.
