The purpose of the “Planet” sites is to have the blogs of people involved in the projects, rather than to blog about the projects. So John Fleck should continue to post away in my opinion. Nick Petreley predicted the success of VA Linux and Caldera. Congrats to the Evolution hackers on today’s announcement. (This post […]
Olsen twins endorse the Velvet Underground. (This post was originally found at http://log.ometer.com/2004–05.html#9)
Large group of Red Hat hackers went to see Van Helsing last night; afterward, argument over whether Dan Williams or I had first suggested it, and which of us should have our ass kicked. Though it was bad, I was impressed by how over the top elaborate the whole thing was. Scratching the surface: multiple […]
Red Hat Desktop is here. The press is pretty good so far. A few people continue to be confused and think that retail/consumer is the same as desktop, or that Fedora Project vs. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a desktop vs. server split. Hopefully that will be cured in time. Red Hat Desktop is a […]
Apparently this person would be happier to pay for Red Hat Enterprise Linux if we removed open source code from the Fedora Project and included it only in Red Hat Enterprise Linux under a proprietary license. He says we don’t understand “value add,” but maybe this is one of those RMS is right moments (see […]
Glad to hear the good news. (This post was originally found at http://log.ometer.com/2004–04.html#30.2)
Testing timestamp support. (This post was originally found at http://log.ometer.com/2004–04.html#30.3)
I realized today that all the talk about Longhorn is “look how cool the technology is” — Avalon, XAML, WinFS, blah blah. This includes the noise coming from Microsoft. There is some small amount of Aero user experience info, but most of it describes building blocks — a sidebar that can hold tiles, a notification […]
I’m kind of amused by this discussion of kernel backports. As I pointed out earlier, we should hand the kernel hackers a copy of the GNOME release process. Asking vendors not to backport is conceivable if you have regular releases. If you don’t have regular releases, then there’s no way vendors can ever work on […]
Glynn, unfortunately fascinating isn’t the only metric. 😉 I should clarify exactly what I think James Gosling gets wrong: he says the Gnome world has “formless dreads,” I think the concerns are in fact very detailed, rational, and well-understood, though there’s some noise and some inability to post legal advice that may make this hard […]