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Took a long weekend from pretty much everything work related (although I had to do some school work) and then got back this evening and spent way too much time on some homework for System Architecture....
View ArticleFedora 10 Snapshot 1 on the XO
As the Fedora 10 release cycle moves forward, we are now in the stage where there are regular “snapshot” releases planned for every week. These snapshots are just a 'point in time' test of rawhide and...
View ArticleFedora 10 Snapshot 2 posted with some improvements for running on the XO
As an update to my post last week, Snapshot 2 of Fedora 10 should be available via bittorrent now. (I had intended to post this update on Friday, but then my main laptop decided to start randomly and...
View ArticleWorking around graphical glitches on the XO
Thanks to a pointer from warren, I've just pushed a workaround to the spins-kickstart repo to help some of the graphical glitches that have been seen on on the OLPC. This includes the blacked out...
View ArticleParty like it’s 1999
I'm somewhat excited about the new gnome-shell stuff that has been blogged about a few times by various people since the GNOME summit a few weeks ago. And so when Owen posted that there was some...
View ArticleThe end of the semester comes early it seems
For some reason, the end of this semester seems to be coming early this time around. Although the end of classes isn't until the middle of December, it seems that pretty much everything is due before...
View ArticleSemester 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...
View Articledracut — 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,...
View ArticleRumours 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...
View ArticleEC2 and Fedora: Still stuck at Fedora 8
Amazon’s EC2 service is great for being able to roll out new servers quickly and easily. It’s also really nice because we don’t ever have to worry about physical hardware and can just spin up more...
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