Long-standing readers (as if!) might remember my brief foray into the early days of Android tablets. Ah, yes, back when all this was trees…*strokes beard*. I don’t think I ever wrote a final post on it, but in the end I played around with it – mainly running the Linux build, which was an LXDE [...]
Hey again folks. First, I fiddled with the configuration of the blog a little: it should be somewhat better for commenting now. I’ve disabled direct account registration, but ensured that both BrowserID/Persona and OpenID login now work, and also enabled comment posting without login so long as you fill in a recaptcha. And tested it [...]
So, why does it not surprise me that my problem with the Redeye turns out to be down to dependencies? And here people keep telling me dependency hell is a Linux problem… So I took a closer look at the crash reports Windows gave me when the ‘installer’ app crashed – Windows has something that’s [...]
Time to abuse this space for ranting purposes! I like programmable universal remote controls, as a rule. We used a Harmony 880 here at AdamW Towers for a long time. It didn’t quite have clean line-of-sight to all my devices, though, so sometimes it wouldn’t be able to hit the A/V receiver or the cable [...]
Yes, as you may have heard out there on the interwebz, Fedora 18 is now available! Here on Planet Fedora said announcement has been accompanied by a chorus of exhalations and mutual backslapping – it’s been a hard release to get done and a hell of a lot of development and release management work went [...]
Are you interested in working for Red Hat? Got experience working in F/OSS communities – particularly the Fedora community? Do you have or can you convincingly fake some kind of understanding of or at least interest in QA, or at least QA as practiced by Fedora (which bears little resemblance to anything you can study [...]
I’m noticing a worrying/annoying trend in Linux journalism lately: quite a lot of authors don’t have an easily-discoverable email address any more. If their articles include an email address at all, it’s one that obviously gets routed through a feedback desk at the publisher of the particular article in question, which is often useless when [...]
Anything the Desktop team can do, the KDE team can do as well, it seems: following on the heels of last week’s GNOME Test Day, today is KDE Test Day! If KDE is your desktop of choice, today’s the day you can join the KDE packagers to test out KDE in the upcoming Fedora 18 [...]
It’s that Test Day time again, folks! Depending on where you are, tomorrow or today – Thursday 2012-11-08 – is GNOME 3.6 Test Day. We’ll be testing various areas of GNOME to ensure the desktop is working smoothly for the upcoming Fedora 18 release. If you have some time to drop by and help GNOME [...]
It’s that good ol’ time again: Fedora 18 Graphics Test Week is here. It all kicks off tomorrow (or today, depending on your timezone) – Tuesday 2012-09-25, with Nouveau (NVIDIA) Test Day. Then Wednesday 2012-09-26 is Radeon Test Day, and Thursday 2012-09-27 is Intel (graphics) Test Day. These events are simply meant to let us [...]