Dearadh Oscailte Abú! (Open Design Forever!)
If you’re subscribed to Fedora’s devel list, then you probably noticed this thread about improving Fedora’s boot experience explode over the past two days. So I have this thing on my desk at Red Hat that basically defines a simple design process. (Yes, it also uses the word ‘ideate’ and yes, it sounds funny but …
Remix of Cartoon Rattlesnake by Sirrob01, Spray Paint in Action by Guillaume W., and Tango Drive Hard Disk by Warszawianka on OpenClipArt. Yes, that is a snake spraying RAID onto a pile of disks. So I think out of all of the feedback we got about the Anaconda UI redesign, the one piece of the …
Remixed version of bottles by Tomas Arad on OpenClipArt. You must be thinking: “What do you mean by refreshing storage? I didn’t think you could drink storage?” No, sad to say, this blog post isn’t about the type of refreshment you get from a crisp cold glass of Anaconda Cola (yum!) It’s about the action …
Designing interfaces to deal with storage technologies is not only hard, it’s terrifying. This is especially true if you aren’t familiar with the storage technologies involved and have to learn how they work on-the-fly, even if you don’t have easy or any access to work with some of these (typically quite expensive) technologies first-hand. After …
The Fedora marketing team is working on launching a Fedora-focused online magazine for the Fedora users and developers. The idea first came when some folks on the team had a discussion about FWN (Fedora Weekly News) and its future. They determined that it might be a cool thing to revive FWN and the Fedora Insight …
The Fedora marketing team is working on launching a Fedora-focused online magazine for the Fedora users and developers. The idea first came when some folks on the team had a discussion about FWN (Fedora Weekly News) and its future. They determined that it might be a cool thing to revive FWN and the Fedora Insight …
Population by netalloy on OpenClipArt, used under the Public Domain Kevin Carillo has been running an anonymous survey for folks who’ve joined the open source community as a contributor no earlier than January 2010. Kevin very kindly added Fedora to the list of projects that are part of the survey, so if you are a …
Bootloading So this is what the Fedora 16 bootloader configuration UI looked like: It allowed you to do a few things: Opt out of installing a bootloader at all. Specify whether you want the bootloader to install to the MBR or to /boot on the first-order physical disk. (You could go back to disk selection …
It’s about that time in our current 6-month-driven cycle to start figuring out the wallpaper for Fedora 18. Ryan Lerch made the first call on the Fedora Design Team mailing list. We started discussing possibilities over IRC in #fedora-design; gnokii kept us on task and made a lot of great suggestions to help us move …
We’ve got OLPCs. Raspberry Pis. And Arduinos with your choice of shields. If you’re a Fedora contributor and have a hankering to hack around with one of these open hardware devices,