Community Matters

OpenSUSE 12.1 on a 2011 MacBook Air

dirk — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 02:33:31 +0000

There are not a lot of guides out there on how to install OpenSUSE on any Mac. And the few guides that I’ve found on installing other Linux flavors on the MacBookAir4,2 (which is how the 2011 MBA identifies itself with dmidecode) are all incorrect in many subtle ways. So I figured I should write [...]

Did Google+ kill many blogs?

dirk — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 14:43:25 +0000

I certainly notice that I never post here anymore. Granted, I haven’t been blogging much even before G+ came around, but still, Google+ has made me even less interested in posting here – many many more people see things that I post on G+…

MeeGo Conference 2010

dirk — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:19:19 +0000

More than a thousand people attended the MeeGo Conference 2010. Hundreds more watched the live streams of keynotes and track 1. The energy in the hall ways was impressive. Since I organized the event, I was hesitant to write much about it here, but then I figured “why not”. It was an amazing show of [...]

The Yocto Project

dirk — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 08:00:00 +0000

The Linux Foundation had two very interesting announcements at the ELC conference in Cambridge today. First, the merger with CELF (the Consumer Electronics Linux Forum) and second the Yocto Project. I think both of them are really interesting and important developments. And both really strengthen the embedded Linux market. The LF can (and will) provide [...]

The next generation of kernel hackers

dirk — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 10:16:00 +0000

Most every year, as we prepare for the kernel summit, this topic comes up. How do we ensure Linux doesn’t turn into the old boys club. How do we attract new developers and get them to grow into bigger roles into the developer community. It’s a typical application of the ten thousand hour rule. You [...]

Apple is the new AOL

dirk — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:48:42 +0000

This isn’t a new idea. Joe Wilcox has discussed this in his BetaNews article a couple of months ago. But spending a lot of time at OSCON last week made it clear to me how true this observation has become – with all its implications. The developers of Android and MeeGo are quite actively playing [...]

Finding a good picture

dirk — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:26:46 +0000

This may seem like a silly problem to have – but I tend to hate pictures of myself. But with Twitter and many other social media services (and blogs, and wikis where you are supposed to introduce yourself) it turns out that having a good picture of yourself is very useful – first impressions matter. [...]

MeeGo presentation at LinuxTag

dirk — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:38:56 +0000

Today I had the pleasure of presenting about MeeGo in the mobile Linux track at LinuxTag 2010. The room was packed, thankfully I had a double slot so I had plenty of time to talk about the what and the why and the how of MeeGo. I talked about the origins of MeeGo and explained [...]

Froyo for Nexus One

dirk — Sat, 22 May 2010 23:58:25 +0000

Lots of posts and happiness about the unexpected early availability of Android 2.2 aka Froyo for the Nexus One. But sadly the update fails if you have the AT&T version of the phone as it has a different build number (EPE54B vs ERE27). So those of us on AT&T still have to wait with everyone [...]

Community distributions with corporate involvement

dirk — Tue, 18 May 2010 04:46:20 +0000

One of the hardest things for people to understand about MeeGo is the intersection between what wants to be a community distribution and what appears to be a distribution with a strong influence by its two major sponsors (Intel and Nokia). In a community distribution the maintainers make the decisions. Today, in MeeGo those maintainers [...]