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Category Archives: Fedora
Ten years is how much in snake years?
Ten years ago today, msw made the very first commit to anaconda. A graphical installer for Red Hat Linux. A tool to make Linux more accessible to the masses by making it easier to install than the (at the time) … Continue reading
Progress Towards Fedora 11 Beta
This week (and last) saw me spending a bit more time on “Fedora-y” things than I have been over the past while in an effort to try to help shore various pieces up in preparation for the Fedora 11 beta. … Continue reading
Publishing git trees
Scott@Ubuntu has posted a few times over the past week or so about some of the problems he’s hit while using git and the more I think about them and read them, I think that a lot of it comes … Continue reading
Recent reading on web usability
A few weeks ago, Yoav recommended Steve Krug’s Don’t Make Me Think as a good book on web usability. I added it to my never-ending list of things to read, but since I’ve been poking around in some things which … Continue reading
A Fedora Offer – Package Reviews
As some may have noticed, I’ve been a little bit less active on the Fedora front of late due to looking into some new areas (more to come about that later probably). To try to keep my fingers in a … Continue reading
Handing over the dracut reigns
As people may have noticed, I’ve mostly passed the dracut torch on to davej and he’s done a more current status report which has been picked up by lwn for this week’s kernel section. Now, if we could get to … Continue reading
Multiple live images on a USB stick
It keeps coming up that people would like to support multiple live images running off the same USB stick/hard drive/$arbitrary medium and so it’s probably worth considering some of the ways that it could possibly be supported. Also, for the … Continue reading
Rumours of my death are (largely) unfounded
The rumours of my death are largely unfounded. I’ve just been either busy working or trying to relax while not on a computer since this is as much of a “break” as I get. I have, though, done various updates … Continue reading
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dracut — Cross distribution initramfs infrastructure
As davej was alluding to, we've started trying to make progress on a new initramfs infrastructure that can be used across distributions instead of just being done for a single distribution. Thus far, the code is fairly early and proof-of-concept-y, … Continue reading
Semester nearly over
At this point, the semester is almost entirely over. While I still have one day of each class left, pretty much every assignment is done and turned in. Only have to finish up the principles assignment for System Architecture and … Continue reading