As you can see from the Fedora Board History, I have held Elected Seat #5 since July 2008, and while I am rather proud of what we have accomplished during my tenure on the Fedora Board, I do not feel that it is healthy for a community to be run by the same people forever and ever. Accordingly, I will not be seeking re-election to the Fedora Board ( Read more... )

Not too long ago, there was a blog post on Fedora Planet where someone was complaining that my chromium repo was crap, and that no one should use it because it was tracking the "unstable" branch ( Read more... )

I'm really trying to be patient with GNOME 3. I remember when I switched from Enlightenment, but I just keep running into really annoying issues.

Issue 1: Multi-monitor support isn't working right at all. (Bugzilla 695737I have a LCD monitor mounted on a stand above my desk at work that is connected to a docking station. I put my Thinkpad T500 ( Read more... )

First of all, I do not want to take any credit for this idea, it belongs to John Rose, and has been bouncing around, trying to come to life, since July 2010. I am just happy to help it finally hatch ( Read more... )

Since I was the secretary (please, no jokes), here is a brief recap of today's Fedora Board Meeting ( Read more... )

February 1 is an interesting day for me. On February 1, 2001, I started working for a small software company called Red Hat, doing Level 2 technical support. Ten years later, on February 1, 2011, I'm still working for Red Hat, but I now manage a Fedora Engineering Team that does nothing but improve Free Software and help the Fedora Community. When ( Read more... )

A while back, I found myself reading a generic PC magazine in a waiting room, and they had an article on Tuning SSDs for Windows 7. It made me wonder what the Fedora equivalent would be. So, I asked my friend and Red Hat coworker Jeff Moyer about it. Jeff knows more about SSDs in Linux than anyone else I know, he does most (if not all) of the ( Read more... )

One of the remaining big ticket items for legal audit in Fedora is TeX Live. A few years ago, we got a version of TeX Live into Fedora, and after the fact, we discovered that the licensing on much of it was confusing or non-free. Jindrich Novy has been working for a while on packaging up TeX Live in a more separated way (package per component as ( Read more... )

People regularly ask me about how they can work for Red Hat, specifically, how they can work on Fedora for Red Hat. Usually, my answer is "Contribute, do good work, get noticed, and you're likely to be hired", but at the moment, two positions have opened up ( Read more... )

Since a few people have asked me for this, I asked Wim if I could repost a copy of his email and he gave me permission to do so.

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Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:25:39 -0700
From: Wim Coekaerts
To: Peter Brown
, drepper@redhat.com, tcallawa@redhat.com
CC: Elena Zannoni Subject: sun rpc license ( Read more... )