Category: Fedora

OLPC XO on a Fedora ARM platform!

As has been previously announced OLPC is planning on moving to an ARM processor to advance the XO platform. The major advantage is similar computing power while having a massive reduction in power usage so as to maximise runtime.

Chris Ball has just posted a XO 1.75 status update to the Fedora OLPC list to let us all know that the project is moving forward and by the end of a recent bringup event the board is now booting a linux kernel and what is presumably a hacked up version of Fedora 12. YAY!

Fedora 14 is out!

The latest and greatest shiny release of Fedora is out. It looking to be a great release with lots of shiny new features and for the first time an officially supported Amazon EC2 AMI image. For those that want to go straight to the download click here but be sure to check out the common bugs to see if any affect you. The newly released Sugar on a Stick v4 (code name Mango Lassi) is based on this release.

Congratulations to Jared for his first release of Fedora as the new FPL and to everyone who has contributed to what looks to be another awesome release!

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Welcome to this blog. I plan to use it as a place to write about technology and technology related aspects of my life. I work in IT and I’m also involved in the Fedora, One Laptop Per Child and SugarLabs projects in my own time as well so I live and work in all sorts of tech so why not write about my experiences about it as well!

It will cover aspects of my job, the aforementioned projects as well as random tech discussion of things that I’m interested in from Photography to Music as well.

My $dayjob is working as an Infrastructure Engineer for the European Enterprise Hosting division of a global company. It has its trials and tribulations but generally I get to play with a lot of big expensive bits of core IT infrastructure ranging from networks, virtualisation, windows and Linux, storage as well as security while travelling to a number of destinations around Europe on an all too regular basis. So its not always bad!