Ever have that dream were you realize half way through a normal day that you’ve got no clothes on? Well, this feels a little like that. I’ve been working on a test suite for a while now, and technically it’s been open-source (GPL), but it wasn’t publicly accessible. That changed today, as it’s now a Fedora Hosted Project called “v7″. So stop by, ridicule my code, fix it, break it, or what ever. Even if you don’t do any of that, it’s a little weird to think that all the code I’ve been writing is now in public view.

v7 on Fedora Hosted

I set my 12 year-old daughter up with Fedora 9 and KDE 4. Her initial experiences are proving to be thought-provoking. What little computer experience she has is mostly with Windows, but she has run iTunes on OSX.

Her mom’s (my ex-wife) first question was, “Can’t it run Windows? That’s what she needs for school”. I explained that the system didn’t come with Windows, and that Fedora was free, and easy to keep up to date. Also, any documents could be saved in formats readable by Microsoft applications. It’s really a shame they don’t run Linux/OO at school.

Still, I have to admit some misgivings about this experiment. Is Linux ready for teenagers? I like to thing that subjecting my daughter to an environment where she has to figure things out will be good for her, as opposed to letting her run Windows, where she can go ask adults for help (often getting bad advice) at every turn.

We’ll see how this goes