Who all is going to PyCon 2008 in Chicago in the next week or so? If so what all are you going to be there for? Conferences? Tutorials? Sprints?
Seeing as I only live about 15 minutes from where PyCon is going to be hosted, I might show up one or two days to check it out, and have been thinking about meeting up with the Bazaar folks and the sprint they have planned. If you are going, leave a comment and maybe if I get some time off we can meet up.
Lucas Nussbaum has graciously setup a mailing list with the approval of the great people over at Freedesktop.org. The purpose of this list is to allow all of the distributions to work together and for those working in distribution development. Lucas gave a brief example such as:
So for you KDE developers who are working in distribution development and are interested in the cross-distribution collaboration, go ahead and join the list. If you would like more information on Lucas’ announcement, feel free to read it in full HERE. He also has an mbox file for download consisting of the communications he had between some of the distributions interested. Thanks Lucas!
For the past few hours I have been battling with Virtualbox to install Hardy as a Guest. It would always get to the end and then provide an error that Grub could not be installed. Fine, let me try Lilo, same thing. Well, I figured out the problem. I had been setting the Virtualbox hard drive setting for the guest to dynamic, which would make the drive allocation expand if and when needed. I decided to give it a static size, which means if I give it 6GB of space it will setup 6GB of space instead of expanding when necessary. Well, I went ahead and started the install and it just finished, had no problems installing Grub this time around.
Moral of the story, if you experience this Grub installation issue on Virtualbox, use a static (bottom radio button) size for the drive allocation when creating a new guest.
My name is Rich Johnson. I am a professional developer, as well as an open source enthusiast, advocate, and author. I spend any free time I can get cycling.
Back in 1994 I was introduced to the world of open source software by installing Linux on a PC I had purchased from the Navy Exchange. At that time I had no idea what I was going up against, but never once did I let myself get frustrated, as Windows had already done that to me. Since then, I have completely immersed myself into the open source world and have been an active contributor.
Come and check out what I am up to on Twitter
Theme by Nixternal, WordPress Newbie
Some Rights Reserved - Privacy Policy -
Disclosure Policy - Sitemap
