Monthly Archives: November 2007

Just got Miro 1.0 running on my RHEL5 laptop (a Dell D620). And it just works. Thanks. Perhaps I should venture in making a Fedora 8 custom spin.

These are heady days. Red Hat’s computing offerings (on Amazon’s EC2) and the RH Appliance products, coupled with the gPhone SDK, open phone hardware from openmoko and the Give 1 Get 1 program of the OLPC is putting so much … Continue reading →

It is finally out. The One Laptop Per Child program’s Give One Get One program is finally up and running. Here’s the text of the email I got: Give One Get One starts today! From all of us at One … Continue reading →

Great to see a significant thought leadership (and tech leadership as well) on the part of Red Hat in pushing the entire virtualization idea to areas that no one has considered. RH’s announcement about making RHEL run anywhere – bare … Continue reading →

in a word awesome

Looks like a lot of good vibes this week. First the Open Handset Alliance from Google and company, second the announcement of Red Hat and Sun working together on open sourced Java and third, Fedora 8 on Thursday! To top … Continue reading →

Digg this! As alluded to in previous posts, Fedora 8 will be a kick ass product. Many things are going for it – and from an Asian perspective, 8 is auspicious for the Chinese and November 8 when it comes … Continue reading →

Just picked up the book You Can Hear Me Now from the National Library and I am enjoying reading it. I am happy to note that the book was inspired by the run away success of Grameen Phone (an initiative … Continue reading →

I am happy to see that Fedora 8 will be out on Nov 8. This is a significant release, if nothing else, it is the 2nd release since the entire Fedora project was established outside of Red Hat’s infrastructure. The … Continue reading →