Thanks again to BU staff and to gregdek for making this happen.
Reviewing other SotU speeches, Max Spevak presented the Fedora State of the Union. The Axis of Evil: Redmond, RIAA/MPAA and any reasonable large technology company located on the isle of Man. 2nd: a voucher program: one badge entitles one to one FUDPub drink. 3rd: [...]
GNHLUGger’s Shawn K. O’Shea, Ted Roche and William Stearns can be seen in the four and fifth row.
Yeah, I’m not the first to notice this. The specs, details and pictures are available in a lot of places, better than I could summarize. Interesting things I got out of the presentation: lots of Python (yeah!), this is a great example of dogfooding (discovering useless ticking of kernel that eats CPU power, heats data [...]
Arbitrary division between Core and Extras. Decision to move everything into one build system, one compose system, one distribution. Many reasons: spread out the load, many eyes -> shallow bugs. If anyone can create a “spin” of Fedora. Red Hat does a good job of engineering the core, the build, the methodology. By enabling Fedora [...]
Dan Walsh of Red Hat talks about SETroubleshooter that translates the gobbledegook error messages from SELinux and better explain what the issues are. Tool audit2allow generates the SELinux macro language (audit2allow’s been around for a while). audit2allwo -M builds a module and prompts the user the commands needed to incorporate it: a te file for [...]
Bryan Clark shows how Mugshot is linked to digg and and his blog and picasa and flickr and google video and yahoo video and… whew! Live client for Linux and Windows. See what your friends are doing, posting, reading, playing music. Mugshot can be the overarching links of IM, email, digg, del.icio.us and more. With [...]
Jessie Keating, F13 (’cause his keyboard goes up to 13). Fedora Release Engineering. Very open topic - how its done, how he’d like to get it done. New build system trying to get open-sourced from RedHat, replacing Plague.
His job: marshall package collection and keep them working. “DistFC7″ is a package collection of everything in [...]
Live from FUDCon Boston 2007 at Boston University’s Photonics Center. Wifi provided by the Fedora group, beautiful facilities. The Unconference format got presenters to do a 2-minute elevator pitch for their sessions. We took a break and voted on the sessions we wanted to attend, and the organizers shuffled the large and small rooms and [...]
