How to choose – a community difference moment
I’ve a little story I want to share with you. I’m telling it because it’s about the larger discussion of who you are and why you are drawn to one Linux distro over another. Or one music style over...
View ArticleUpdated technique for seeing git and directory status in bash prompt
Just working with a git directory and noticed that whatever trick I was using to get the current git branch visible from my $PS1 variable in bash … stopped working. In discussing if a man page for...
View ArticleHow to install Moblin on Fedora 12
Moblin is a feature of Fedora 12 as an easy to install desktop environment. The below how-to information is copied directly from http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_install_Moblin, and is used here...
View ArticleLooking for a soup-to-dessert hosting service
… the key being, I want to drink our own champagne, so it should run Fedora or RHEL as the hosted Linux. And I want it to source, cook, serve, and clean-up the entire meal for me. The project is going...
View ArticleCranking up to SCALE 8x
This is going to be one wickedly fantastic Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) 8x. Our Fedora presence is growing, both in depth of roots in the area and the scope of what we are trying to do. A...
View ArticleDear Tech Republic, it’s called FOSS and that’s just how it’s done
Jason Hiner, Editor-in-Chief over at Tech Republic, wrote an article where he describes what Canonical and Ubuntu can teach Microsoft, Apple, and others. Ironically, every virtue he praises Ubuntu for...
View ArticleLindependence Hour starting up in Santa Cruz
Larry and Drew got talking on #lindependence about the idea of holding a regular hour-long Linux event at a local coffee shop, and they pulled me in to the idea. The event is styled on the Ubuntu Hour...
View ArticleWhat would you think if I started an internal-to-Red Hat Fedora users list?
So I had an idea this week, partially in response to one of our stellar global support staff members saying that he wishes there was a person or place to send internal people needing user help with...
View ArticleReport and presentation materials for “oVirt – Infrastructure and management...
This presentation was the first run of a consolidated slide show about the oVirt project. (ODP, PDF) Wow, it was a lot of dense content to cover, with a range of topics. What is KVM, what is OVA (Open...
View ArticleLinuxchefs.org planet using OpenShift
After Jason Brooks made an OpenShift quickstart for Venus, the blog feed aggregator known as a planet, I knew it was time to finally get linuxchefs.org off the ground. I registered this domain years...
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