Posted on 11/6/2004, 12:38 pm, by Colin Charles, under
General.
Fedora News Updates #13 is out. By far, the largest ever (not that this is the first time its a three-week summary). 18901 bytes. It’s getting mighty hard to write it with so many posts – start contributing folk, especially trawl fedora-list…
Fragmenting the Fedora documentation isn’t a good idea – we need a FreeBSD handbook or a Gentoo manual style of documents. Useful, something end-users, and advanced developers can always depend on, reliable, and consistient. A grand plan at some stage will be to move things like the Fedora unofficial FAQ/newbie install guide over to some Fedora docs project site. Currently we have many editors, but not many things to edit :( Is it learning DocBook XML that stops many? Or is it CVS that scares you? I’ve begun hanging out at #fedora-docs, though hardly much gets said there…
How about this: I got a little “urgent” e-mail, with a phone number, asking me to call them, so that their OpenOffice.org woes would go away. Anyone else gotten requests like this?
Posted on 9/6/2004, 12:13 pm, by Colin Charles, under
General.
Trawled Bugzilla today, mainly poking at gpdf/openoffice, so there was a lot of upstream stuff there too. Annoyed as to why Rhytmbox only works using “osssink” rather than “alsasink” – gstreamer bug, wish #121671 gets released as an update soon (since Rhythmbox will be preferred to XMMS soon).
I’ve started using gvim again – long forgotten software, and for once, I don’t have a gnome-terminal open! vim-X11 provides it (on Fedora), and “set shell=/bin/sh” fixes my custom .bashrc.
Posted on 7/6/2004, 12:44 am, by Colin Charles, under
General.
Well, TechPreview 4 is out, for OpenOffice.org on Mac OS X. It runs like a charm, in fact I used it for my AUSOM talk. Kevin Hendricks basically fixed the “it mucks up my directory permissions” bug #28606.
Seems there are a few folk there using it too – good stuff. According to Bob Kerr, its the number 2 download at the Apple website. Definitely good news for us. And I’m quite sure we’re approaching 1.1.2 as an “official” release soon, we just have a few more fixes to integrate…
Update: Usual download location, and bits of the to-do list.
Posted on 6/6/2004, 2:20 pm, by Colin Charles, under
General.
Its common in many circles to say, hire based on the Google test for instance. But then there are two sides to the coin, ‘eh? Question can be asked, Google test may be applied, but personal attacks have an effect on productivity. aoliva says it best: “Individual and team morales, and respect for co-workers, are also important for productivity.”
No point defending yourself to ad hominem attacks either. Best to move on, and do what you do best.
Posted on 5/6/2004, 4:46 am, by Colin Charles, under
General.
There are plenty of migration guides that serve for Windows users wanting to move to Linux. I think there might even be one from our favourite company in Redmond, written for UNIX users migrating to Windows. But we hardly ever get Mac OS X to Linux migration guides do we?
Gave my talk to the Mac user group, AUSOM about running Linux on beloved Mac hardware! Yay to Linux PPC. Surprisingly filled with interest about open source, and the fact that Apple too make use of a lot of underlying OSS tools, made a few heads turn. A lot look like they’re going to try out Fedora Core 2, and some have interests in Linux-based GIS applications too. GNOME looks like a clear winner as well (2.6; I had the 2.4 on the Debian unstable laptop and they were like “eew, Windows Explorer!”). Yay, yay. Talk uploaded at the usual talks location.
Pity I can’t drive the Radeon’s to give me dual-head yet. I tried, but I won’t give up; just that I needed sleep and to write my talk. I’m convinced the Radeon Mobility 9200 on the iBook G4 and the Radeon Mobility 7500 on the G3 will work with dual head – but all I’m getting is the OFBoot screen. Sigh
Posted on 3/6/2004, 4:36 am, by Colin Charles, under
General.
Good meeting – introduction to FC2, and picking the right repositories went well, just a little longer than expected, but that means there was discussion, and thats always a good thing. LILO is gone, and the latest post on fedora-list by davej seems to say there are about 40 kernel patches at most (I said 30, based on older information) – since the patch related question came up.
Russell Coker gave a brief talk about SELinux, how FC2 will have it “just work” and I’d encourage anyone in the Melbourne area to come to the SELinux SIG on the 8th of June, again at Red Hat Melbourne’s offices, as there will be a meeting with the main agenda of installing FC2 in enforcing mode, using it, and chit chat later – start time is after 5.30pm, I’m told.
Mike MacCana went on with QEmu, and this seems to be mighty interesting. He even demo’ed RHEL AS 2.1 running in QEmu, as well as Windows 2000, with full network access and so on. His host system was a RHEL 3 box. It’s not exactly fast, even with half-a-gig-of-RAM, but I’m still tempted to give it a go.
And a warm welcome (and thank you) to Tung U for hosting this months meeting in Richard’s absence.
