It's not a bug, it's an accidental feature

During a misadventure over the past weekend, a friend reminded me that the last significant entry in my personal blog was about a Zombie Walk from October. The most recent one, however, was about my plan to attend FUDCon 8. FUDCon is a gathering of Fedora users and developers, vaguely like Rational's own annual Software Developer Conference. Most attendees are either working on developing Fedora itself or deploying and managing systems using Fedora, which somewhat put me on the sidelines. Fedora was one of the first distributions to include Eclipse compiled natively so it could be run with an open source VM. My own involvement with Fedora traces back to its predecessor, Red Hat Linux. And I don't mean the Enterprise offering they market these days, I mean the original Red Hat Commercial Linux, from when modular kernels were new, automatic hardware detection didn't happen, and when RPM was still written in Perl and the complete guide to using and creating packages for i...