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FUDCon F13: Another SNAFU

As some of you may know, I have been working hard to get the Fedora 12 media ready for delivery.  It’s been replicated, the sleeves printed and the boxes are waiting at our CD Replication vendor.  However, even though we thought we had covered all of our bases, we missed some details with regard to [...]

Posted on December 4, 2009 at 10:13 am by herlo · Permalink · 2 Comments
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News: Fedora 12 is NOW AVAILABLE!!

I’ve been running Fedora 12 for about a month now (Beta first, Alpha before that).  It’s the best Fedora to date. Everything Just Works(TM). I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to have a system working with great sound, awesome graphics and very usable GNOME and KDE desktops.  I really like the new NetworkManager [...]

Posted on November 19, 2009 at 10:31 am by herlo · Permalink · One Comment
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UTOSC 2009: Breakfast is served!

As part of my effort to help out folks coming in for the Utah Open Source Conference 2009, we have filled up our household with out-of-towners. However, when I asked my awesome sweetie , Jennifer, about food, she had this reply: 21:37 <herlo> did you say you were willing to cook breakfast for us during [...]

Posted on September 3, 2009 at 8:50 pm by herlo · Permalink · 2 Comments
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I’m Famous: Spinning Your Own Linux LiveCD from TheBitSource.com

Not wanting to toot my own horn too much, but this is awesome!! http://www.thebitsource.com/2009/02/28/scale-7x-clint-savage-of-fedora-project-on-spinning-your-own-linux-livecd/ and currently, it’s the featured story on their home page. Herlo

Posted on February 28, 2009 at 9:18 am by herlo · Permalink · One Comment
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SCaLE 7x: Improving the Fedora Remix Presentation

After getting permission from Paul W. Frields, the fearless Fedora Project Leader to use his slides to present the topic of Fedora Remix, I began to add and modify the presentation. I could see that some things had needed changing, this included changes to the look and feel.  Let me share with you these changes [...]

Posted on February 23, 2009 at 2:13 am by herlo · Permalink · One Comment
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In Reply: To Larry Cafiero about SWAG

In reply to a post by Larry Cafiero about the spelling of SWAG, it’s an backronym: Stuff We All Get (SWAG) Here’s some references to related defintions and such: http://www.acronymfinder.com/Stuff-We-All-Get-(SWAG).html http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/swag I should mention that Larry has done an amazing job, managing the booth, dealing with the Fedora Kids (pictures to come) and helping all [...]

Posted on February 22, 2009 at 4:58 pm by herlo · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Fedora Remix: Tomorrow at SCaLE 7x

Hi all, I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while, as I have been thinking about it for some time.  I’ve been working really hard on this presentation for tomorrow afternoon at the Southern California Linux Expo this weekend.  So I’d like to discuss what I’ve been working on and provide my links [...]

Posted on February 20, 2009 at 12:04 pm by herlo · Permalink · 2 Comments
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Fedora Activity Day @ SCaLE 7x: Two Exciting Sprints

Heading over to the Southern California Linux Exposition next month? If you said yes, you are in luck! The North American Fedora Ambassadors team has obtained a room for the first North American Fedora Activity Day @ SCaLE 7x! What is a FAD, you ask? Well, let’s try to explain. It is clear that while [...]

Posted on January 28, 2009 at 9:15 am by herlo · Permalink · Leave a comment
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SCaLE7x: A Conference for Families

Here’s a conversation I had regarding SCaLE’s policy toward bringing children. So this brings to my mind.  What can we do to entertain children at a booth besides the OLPCs? herlo I asked a couple days back about kids at scale and pricing or whatever.  I forgot to take #scale-chat of ignore, what is the rules [...]

Posted on January 27, 2009 at 2:31 pm by herlo · Permalink · Leave a comment
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FUDCon F11: Day 3

9:45am: Awake.  Stare at the ceiling for a short while.  Climb out of bed.  Look out the window and discover the few inches of snow that has accumulated during the night. 10:15am: Finish packing my gear, wake Jennifer. 10:50am: Head down to the hotel lobby and drop off our bags at the bell desk. 10:55am: [...]

Posted on January 13, 2009 at 12:04 am by herlo · Permalink · Leave a comment
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