Archive for November, 2008

Fedora 10 Release Party Details

Recently, I announced a Fedora 10 release party here on my blog,  It turns out, that not only will it be a release party, with (hopefully) physical and electronic media available, but it will also be an installfest!! SO BRING YOUR MACHINES AND GET THEM INSTALLED! Victor Villa of the Utah PHP User Group (UPHPU) [...]

Posted on November 26, 2008 at 11:01 am by herlo · Permalink · 2 Comments
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Hear ye, hear ye, Fedora 10 has arrived

Get yours today. Available at mirrors everywhere.  Also via bittorrent ? and jigdo ?. Freedom, Friends, Features, First!  That’s Fedora! Take the Tour Read the Release Notes Digg it Cheers, Herlo

Posted on November 25, 2008 at 8:20 am by herlo · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Mind Maps: The Utah Open Source Foundation

The Utah Open Source Foundation “Mind Map” After creating the Fedora Project Mind Map, I was better able to understand how UTOS was currently structured.  I was able to put together the main pieces pretty quickly, although it seems there are several gaps in my thought process still.  For that reason, I’m opening the UTOS [...]

Posted on November 25, 2008 at 7:55 am by herlo · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Fedora 10 (Cambridge) coming soon – and a release party to boot!

And I am already running Fedora 10.  It’s stable, powerful and most of all, built from free software!  Also, I’m in charge of creating the Media for North America this release.  We’ve already pre-purchased x86 live media and plan to produce similar amounts of x86_64 live CDs as well as both x86 and x86_64 install [...]

Posted on November 21, 2008 at 2:14 pm by herlo · Permalink · 2 Comments
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Mind Maps: The Fedora Project

Recently, I’ve been plagued with trying to come up with an organizational model for the Utah Open Source Foundation and it’s relationship to the Utah Open Source Conference.  This is in addition to the new Non-Profit structure we’re building. To that end, I created a very shabby hierarchical structure which I passed around a week [...]

Posted on November 21, 2008 at 10:14 am by herlo · Permalink · 6 Comments
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Fedora Classroom sessions start today

In just under 3 hours, I’ll be giving my presentation on SELinux Basics.  There are many other great presentations today as well.  The schedule is available at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/IRC/Classroom Come by #fedora-classroom irc channel (on irc.freenode.net) today at 20:00 UTC (3:00pm EST for the timezone challenged) Cheers, Herlo

Posted on November 8, 2008 at 10:10 am by herlo · Permalink · Leave a comment
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So it appears we may be onto something

As of this afternoon, between myself and Steven Moix, it appears that almost all of the Fedora 10 Tour will be ready for the upcoming release.  Check it out for yourself, we’re only missing the release summary which should be written very soon. Also, I should note that the countdown has already started: Also, F10 [...]

Posted on November 5, 2008 at 11:54 pm by herlo · Permalink · 2 Comments
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Meme: First thing I do after installing (insert your distro here)

Obviously, my distro is Fedora, but for those of you who might choose something else, let’s play along. This meme comes from Valent Turkovic’s blog post a few days ago, so I thought I’d share mine. $ su -c ‘yum install nautilus-open-terminal’ This enables me to right click on the desktop and click ‘Open in [...]

Posted on November 5, 2008 at 1:54 am by herlo · Permalink · 6 Comments
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Fedora Classroom begins November 8

Want to learn a new tool within Fedora?  Interested in getting a better hold on your skillset?  Want to share with others something you’ve learned?  Let us know at the newly formed Fedora Classroom. As part of the marketing team meeting this week, Kevin Fenzi brought up the Fedora-Classroom.  While #fedora serves a good purpose [...]

Posted on November 3, 2008 at 12:44 pm by herlo · Permalink · 4 Comments
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