Category Archives: Fedora

Catching up

About this time last week, I came to the realization that I had a ton of pending work to get done. Luckily, I'm now starting to feel more like I'm on track and not behind. But it was less than … Continue reading

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Fedora on an XO

As I mentioned before, one thing that I've been spending some time on is getting a “stock” Fedora to run on the OLPC XO hardware. Obviously there's not a CD drive, but there is a USB port and there is … Continue reading

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What have I been up to?

Things have quieted down on the livecd-tools front — it is mostly to a point where it's pretty stable and works fairly well. Also, I did not run for election to either the Board or FESCo this time around. Instead, … Continue reading

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Well, that was interesting

So when I last left you with a post, it was to note the end of my summer classes and looking forward to at least getting to relax a little bit. Hah! That mostly certainly didn't happen. Instead, I got … Continue reading

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Last week flew by

So yeah, last week kind of flew past me and I didn't do a good job of keeping up with posting. Lots of it was building live images for the Fedora 10 alpha (coming to a mirror near you tomorrow), … Continue reading

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The "Cambridge" release returns

The results of the voting on the Fedora 10 name were announced today. And I am quite pleased to see that my suggestion, Cambridge, is the winning name. Now, for those who don't know, Cambridge has a special significance as … Continue reading

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Another busy day

Another busy day today. Started out with Systems Engineering in the morning and Professor Dan Frey talking about the Design of Experiments. Another session where I can easily see where in a physical engineering field, it would have a lot … Continue reading

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And by popular demand… a plymouth screencast

And by popular (by which, I mean one person) demand, a screencast of plymouth on the live cd. Screencast Currently using vesafb to get the pretty graphics instead of modesetting. And there's something slowing down livecd boots the past couple … Continue reading

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Graphical Boot and Live Images

One of the goals for Fedora 10 is to replace the aging rhgb that has been used for graphical boot since Red Hat Linux 8.0. rhgb is implemented using an X server which started in rc.sysinit relatively early during the … Continue reading

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The days get shorter

Got out and had a couple of nice, fast rides this weekend. Saturday was a double dinosaur for a metric century and then about fifty miles yesterday. And I'm doing pretty well at getting my speed up while still being … Continue reading

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