{"id":321,"date":"2005-06-23T15:51:30","date_gmt":"2005-06-23T20:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=321"},"modified":"2005-06-23T19:48:44","modified_gmt":"2005-06-24T00:48:44","slug":"red-hat-the-catholic-church-of-all-distributions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2005\/06\/23\/red-hat-the-catholic-church-of-all-distributions","title":{"rendered":"Red Hat, the Catholic Church of all Distributions"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>So m-commerce must&#8217;ve really taken off. Today, I made a purchase from a WAP site on my mobile, using my credit card details, and then having an item I ordered delivered. All without a computer, mind you.<\/li>\n<li>I started jhbuilding GNOME again. On a fairly standard FC-4 system (workstation install), you need: <tt>docbook-utils-pdf, howl-devel<\/tt>. It has a spiffy notification area icon now. <tt>audiofile<\/tt> wouldn&#8217;t get installed (host not found) &#8211; so manual fixing. <tt>mozilla<\/tt> wouldn&#8217;t build. The <a href=\"http:\/\/live.gnome.org\/JhbuildDependencies\">jhbuild dependencies<\/a> is a mighty useful page &#8211; if time permits, maybe something like the comprehensive <a href=\"http:\/\/live.gnome.org\/JhbuildOnUbuntu\">jhbuildonubuntu<\/a> ought to be written for Fedora.<\/li>\n<li>Spent some time with the FUDCon II folk, aka, the FESCO meeting #2. SkypeOut seems to have served well for the three hours, because I got to do these things handsfree. And it didn&#8217;t cost a bomb. While sitting on it, I decided we needed to communicate (well, this was a goal from FESCO physical meeting #1), so I present <a href=\"http:\/\/fedoraproject.org\/wiki\/Extras\/SteeringCommittee\">Extras Steering Committee<\/a>. We have meeting minutes that are public there now. And its been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redhat.com\/archives\/fedora-extras-list\/2005-June\/msg00945.html\">announced<\/a>. Good talk about how package process works (the arch stuff came up, and more stringent ExclusiveArch goodness and Bugzilla tying ins). What we can package\/ship also came up, and I&#8217;m sure the minutes and stuff that comes out of it will be interesting.<\/li>\n<li><i> < |Jef|> he clearly doesnt understand that Red Hat is the catholic church of distributions&#8230; every year its congregation splinters in yet another reformation<\/><\/i> &#8211; how true. You can splinter, but you can never leave us.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So m-commerce must&#8217;ve really taken off. Today, I made a purchase from a WAP site on my mobile, using my credit card details, and then having an item I ordered delivered. All without a computer, mind you. I started jhbuilding GNOME again. On a fairly standard FC-4 system (workstation install), you need: docbook-utils-pdf, howl-devel. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-5b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}