Fedora Family / IBM Leftovers
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Ubuntu to enact new marketing strategy: "Stay quiet and watch Red Hat implode"
"All we need to do is stop talking and we instantly look better by comparison."
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Daniel García Moreno: rpmlint updates (July 2023)
I'm spending some time every week working in the rpmlint project.
Every component described above is open-source and auditable. For completeness: it’s not an integral part of the stack, but we use a self-hosted instance of Metabase, an open-core business intelligence platform, to visualise the data stored in the PostgreSQL database. The Endless OS Foundation team has access to Metabase, and thence to the data stored by Azafea; nobody else has access to the raw data. Metabase allows us to make read-only charts and dashboards visible to the public. Here is a visualisation of the total RAM in Endless OS users’ machines in the past 24 hours at the time of writing, rounded to the nearest half-gigabyte (or rather, for my fellow pedants, gibibyte), taken from this event. You can see the live chart here. And if you mouse over one of the segments in the live chart, you can infer from the totals that there are somewhere north of 17,000 computers running Endless OS 4 or newer. (This is an underestimate of our total user count because it only considers the computers in use in a particular 24-hour window, which have not opted out of metrics, and which are not part of the ~20% of systems running an older OS version.)
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Ryan Rix: "it isn't a contest. Just enjoy the ride." - remembering Seth Vidal
it isn't a contest. Just enjoy the ride.
The [2013-07-05 Fri] tweet from Seth Vidal, talking with another software engineer about the best tools for tracking cycling stats
A decade ago we learned of the passing of Red Hat/Fedora Linux software engineer Seth Vidal on [2013-07-08 Mon]. I had the privilege of working with him in my time as a hobbyist contributor to Fedora and KDE and during my internship on Red Hat's Community Architecture team while I was in University. Seth was very much one of those "bristly" Linux Sysadmin types but had a huge heart and was always honest and helpful and hopeful. I only got to meet with him and hack in person a few times at FUDCon and the like but I enjoyed talking with him online and I appreciated his mentorship.
Like many deaths, of course it was normal life, and then suddenly it wasn't. He died after a driver hit him while cycling and drove away without stopping.