http://sexysexypenguins.com Fedora: when you're ready to wear your big boy pants Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:14:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://sexysexypenguins.com/2008/11/21/fedora-10-cambridge-coming-soon-and-a-release-party-to-boot/ 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 ... http://sexysexypenguins.com/2008/11/21/mind-maps-the-fedora-project/ 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 http://sexysexypenguins.com/2008/11/08/fedora-classroom-sessions-start-today/ 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 ... http://sexysexypenguins.com/2008/11/05/so-it-appears-we-may-be-onto-something/ 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 ... http://sexysexypenguins.com/2008/11/05/meme-first-thing-i-do-after-installing-insert-fedora/ 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 ... http://sexysexypenguins.com/2008/11/03/fedora-classroom-begins-november-8/ With some left over funds from the Fedora booth at UTOSC, I created the first Ambassador EventBox.  Not that there wasn't an event box before, but it wasn't formal and was pretty trashed as a cardboard box moving from place to place would. It turns out to be a smash hit ... http://sexysexypenguins.com/2008/10/29/ambassador-eventbox-making-the-rounds-through-north-america/ Back in July, I built gnome-do from scratch, identifying and helping get a few bugs worked out along the way.  It was all in an effort to create a screencast on the future version of gnome-do for Fedora 10.  Gnome-do appears to be based upon Quicksilver from Mac, but gnome-do ... http://sexysexypenguins.com/2008/10/22/screencast-gnome-do-v05-for-fedora-10/ If you haven't heard, Fedora now has a VOIP (Voice Over IP) server called Fedora Talk.  Information about it can be found at talk.fedoraproject.org. Essentially, the goal of Fedora Talk is to make it easier for use Fedorans to talk with one another, hold conference calls and accommodate impromptu conversations that ... http://sexysexypenguins.com/2008/10/20/screencast-fedora-talk-with-twinkle/ Well, after staying up until around 4am hacking (2am with David and Cade), I finally finished my presentations slides and went to sleep for a measly 3hrs 45mins.  But that was enough to get me through the rest of the day.  And what a day it was! When I arrived downstairs ... http://sexysexypenguins.com/2008/10/12/fad-na-day-1/