Archive for the 'Red Hat' Category

March 16th, 2010

Storage Test Day this Thursday 2010-03-18

There’s always more testing to do, and this week is no exception: it’s Test Day time again! This Thursday, 2010-03-18, is storage Test Day. Fedora 13 features several improvements to disk management, and this Thursday is our time to test them out! Anyone with a computer and a hard disk can do some of the [...]

March 11th, 2010

Blocker review meeting tomorrow, awesome new testing tool: fedora-easy-karma

So here’s some quick news. We have the first blocker review meeting for Fedora 13 Beta tomorrow, at 16:00 UTC – 11am EST, 8am PST. That’s in #fedora-bugzappers on Freenode IRC. As always, the more people the better, come along and share your wisdom! Especially if you have any potential blocker bugs to share.
There’s also [...]

March 9th, 2010

Webcam Test Day on Thursday 2010-03-11

It’s Test Day time again! This Thursday, 2010-03-11, is webcam Test Day. It’s really pretty simple: if you have a webcam we want you to boot up a recent Fedora and check if it works. There’s detailed instructions on the Wiki page but that’s really what it boils down to – fire up your webcam, [...]

February 24th, 2010

You never knew how much you didn’t know about the flash memory market

This is by far the most interesting blog post I’ve read this year. It also gives me a great urge to buy something – anything – made by Chumby. If the guy who runs the company is that on the ball, they must be making good stuff, I reckon…

February 17th, 2010

Shaun White = holy crap

Okay, so here’s the deal – what I know about snowboarding wouldn’t fill the back of a postage stamp, but even I can tell when fifteen guys are working very very hard for a silver medal while the other would win the gold with his eyes closed and one leg tied behind his back. That [...]

February 16th, 2010

Color Management Test Day Thursday 2010-02-18

It’s Test Day time again!
This Thursday, 2010-02-18, will be Color Management Test Day. There’s some exciting new color management features in Fedora 13. That is to say, there are color management features in Fedora 13! We’ve never had any real color management in Fedora before, so this is great news for photographers and designers in [...]

February 14th, 2010

WPTouch: mobile view plugin for WordPress

Thanks a lot to Jaap A. Haitsma for alerting me to WPTouch, a very neat plugin for WordPress which automatically presents a mobile-friendly appearance when it detects a mobile browser user agent (and you can customize the user agent list). So now when you visit this blog with a mobile device you should get a [...]

February 12th, 2010

From the ‘freaking awesome’ department – 3D support on nouveau

So, this is insane:

That’s Spring. What’s Spring? Well, it’s a fairly neat open source RTS framework that started out as a Total Annihilation clone, but more to the point, it’s a pretty complex 3D game. What’s cool about the picture? Well, it’s in the renderer info in the console (which you probably can’t quite make [...]

February 10th, 2010

Test events coming up: Fedora 13 Alpha test compose

It seems early as always, but we’re just about to start up the Fedora 13 Testing Machine, which will roll on right up to the final release in May. The Alpha release is due early next month, and this week we start off by testing the first Alpha ‘test compose’, which will arrive on Thursday [...]

February 5th, 2010

Fedora 13 Alpha blocker bug review meeting in 7 hours!

It’s that time again: blocker bug review meeting time! Yes, yes. Already. Tomorrow is the first blocker bug review meeting for Fedora 13 Alpha: that is, 2010-02-05 at 15:00 UTC in #fedora-bugzappers.
Here are the current bugs listed as blocking the Alpha release. We’ll be discussing all of these. Have an issue you’d like to propose [...]