Fallacy #1: Choice is good Five years later, I still think Adam Jackson’s “Linux is not about choice” might be the best thing ever posted to fedora-devel-list. Seriously. Go read …| oh jeez linux
So there’s a thing that’s come up a couple of times about the new package selection UI: “PLEASE reconsider not giving us the ability to select packages in the installer!” He…| oh jeez linux
Why are we in Kansas Seriously why Rhubarb Liquor HAMMER TIME| oh jeez linux
Here’s a fun game. I’ll describe a problem, and you guess whether it’s a regular bug, or a regression! “This code worked this way before, but now it works differently!”…| oh jeez linux
Remember a few weeks back, when we USians were still in the throes of election-induced political madness? Remember how Republican politicians kept saying just awful things about how some rape was &…| oh jeez linux
So first I was like: And then I actually started looking at code and I was like: So then I was like: And then: But then: So then there was: And now it’s like: …| oh jeez linux
A short history of upgrade tools In the beginning, the Installer was all. If you wanted to upgrade a Red Hat / Fedora system you downloaded the CD images, burned them all to CDs, and sat around swa…| oh jeez linux
So. FUDCon! You’re all probably tired of hearing about it already so I’ll spare you the personal details and get straight to the interesting stuff. Installer Team North America Jamboree…| oh jeez linux
I found some mail in my inbox this morning. Like, actual physical mail in my physical inbox. Weird! An otherwise-blank envelope from a nondescript address in Kentucky? Containing.. cards? What is t…| oh jeez linux
During FUDCon, I got to wondering: with all the rewriting and refactoring and fixing we’ve done on anaconda in the past couple years, is there any of the old code left anymore? So: git blame …| oh jeez linux