FUDCon Raleigh 2008 was a weekend of hacking, planning, discussions, coding, and general mirth. Over 200 members of the Fedora community were in attendance, and a tremendous amount of work was accomplished that will pay off in the Fedora 9 release.
Rather than recap the entire event myself, I have collected up some of the blog posts about FUDCon that appeared on Fedora Planet during and after the event. Check back tomorrow for a FUDCon video. » Read more
From Friday, Jan. 11 through Sunday, Jan. 13, the Fedora Project will be holding its annual FUDCon at Red Hat’s headquarters in Raleigh, NC.
FUDCon is the Fedora Users and Developers Conference–a time when members of the Fedora community who usually only communicate via email or IRC have a chance to meet in person. FUDCon includes two full days of hackfests, in which specific technical problems are worked on in small group code sprints, as well as one day of talks, sessions, and presentations that are of interest to all variety of users and developers. » Read more
Fresh, free, and featherweight: the all-new Fedora 8 on a USB key.
I am writing this article on a Windows laptop borrowed from a friend. But fear not, dear reader, for I have not abandoned my free software principles. For while the hard disk of this laptop contains the Windows operating system, I have used a USB key as the boot device, and the laptop is currently running Fedora 8, codenamed “Werewolf.” » Read more
When Fedora 7 was released, one of the big features that we talked about was the idea of customized spins of the distribution.
Now that Fedora 8 is on the way, it’s useful to look and see how we have done, and what sort of custom spins have been created.
Fedora™ 7 hits the streets on May 31st. One of the most exciting features of the Fedora 7 release is the fact that users can remix the Fedora code in any variety of ways. Tools are provided that allow the user to build either a customized LiveCD or installable ISO, and to reach out to any 3rd-party RPM repositories and pull in packages from them at compose time.
We held the third annual FUDCon Boston (Fedora Users and Developers Conference) from February 2nd - 4th at Boston University. In the spirit of Greg DeKoenigsberg’s FUDCon summary from last year, I offer you a pseudo-realtime commentary of the weekend.
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It’s been a little over a month since the first installment of Fedora Corner, in which I talked about the Fedora Summit, the Fedora Ambassador Day in Europe, and offered some information about the usage statistics of Fedora Core 6.
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Greetings faithful Fedora readers. And welcome to the first installment of Red Hat Magazine’s new regular column about Fedora. In the past, we’ve had the Fedora Status Report, which was basically a copy and paste of the most useful news items from FedoraNews.org, which is Fedora’s official news site run by Thomas Chung, and a site that I encourage you all to read. It’s on my RSS feed list.
I’ll still be using Fedora News as the basis of this column, but what I’m probably going to do is pick a smaller number of topics and write a little bit more about them.
