{"id":18623,"date":"2013-09-23T11:36:04","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T09:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=18623"},"modified":"2013-09-23T11:36:04","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T09:36:04","slug":"happy-10th-birthday-fedora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/23\/happy-10th-birthday-fedora\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 10th birthday, Fedora!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Dear Fedora,<\/p>\n<p>I know we have our disagreements. \u00a0At times I don&#8217;t know where you are going. \u00a0Or whether even you know where you are going. \u00a0But that&#8217;s OK. \u00a0Because you are still awesome. \u00a0You still pay my bills. \u00a0You are still fun to use. \u00a0And you are still on every single computer I can get my hands on, both at home and at work.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redhat.com\/archives\/fedora-devel-list\/2003-September\/msg00137.html\">10th birthday<\/a>. \u00a0And you&#8217;ve grown up a lot. \u00a0It seems <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2003\/11\/20\/2003-11-20\/\">like only yesterday I was upgrading my Red Hat 9 machines<\/a> to an awkwardly named <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fedora_(operating_system)\">Fedora Core 1 Yarrow Linux<\/a>, and yet here we are &#8211; expecting the 20th release. \u00a0You&#8217;ve kept your word on releasing every 6 month (albeit with a few weeks delay every single time). \u00a0You&#8217;ve grown. \u00a0You&#8217;ve changed. \u00a0You&#8217;ve matured.<\/p>\n<p>While I had a few hiccups with you over the years &#8211; those Gnome and KDE fights, those boot loader changes, and still painful inclusion of SELinux, you&#8217;ve always been there for me. \u00a0I&#8217;ve helped me to build numerous projects. \u00a0To make new friends. \u00a0To understand the world better.<\/p>\n<p>Please continue to be what you are. \u00a0Please continue to change. \u00a0Please continue to improve. \u00a0Just, if you can, think of me, your biggest fan and seasoned user, once in a while.<\/p>\n<p>Happy 10th birthday and a huge thank you.<\/p>\n<p>Yours truly, Leonid.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Dear Fedora, I know we have our disagreements. \u00a0At times I don&#8217;t know where you are going. \u00a0Or whether even you know where you are going. \u00a0But that&#8217;s OK. \u00a0Because you are still awesome. \u00a0You still pay my bills. \u00a0You are still fun to use. \u00a0And you are still on every single computer I can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/23\/happy-10th-birthday-fedora\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy 10th birthday, Fedora!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,6,62],"tags":[696,2351,991,2293,2157],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-18623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-linux","category-technology","tag-birthday","tag-fedora-linux","tag-milestones","tag-red-hat","tag-red-hat-linux"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11193,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/06\/ubuntu-fedora-release-party\/","url_meta":{"origin":18623,"position":0},"title":"Ubuntu \/ Fedora release party","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"May 6, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Theodotos sent me a message, letting me know of the upcoming Ubuntu \/ Fedora release party that will take place in Frederick University on May 17, 2008. 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