Fedora Project Board Update (2006-06-06)
The summary from today's Fedora Project Board meeting is now available on the wiki. Among the topics discussed were version control, infrastructure, possibilities for the next FUDCon, Fedora Legacy, the testing project announced at the Red Hat Summit, and more. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Meetings/2006-06-06 As always, your thoughts and comments are encouraged on [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Max Spevack + http://people.redhat.com/mspevack/ + gpg key -- http://people.redhat.com/mspevack/mspevack.asc + fingerprint -- CD52 5E72 369B B00D 9E9A 773E 2FDB CB46 5A17 CF21 -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
readonly copy of fedora-advisory-board list
Just wanted to let you all know that I've got a readonly copy of the fedora-advisory-board mailing list setup. fedora-advisory-board is the list on which the Fedora Board conducts its business, and its membership is comprised of the Fedora Board members, and many of the folks on different Fedora Steering Committees, leaders within the community and within Red Hat. Many people have said that they appreciate the transparency into the work of the Board, but that it would be far easier to get that transparency if there was a readonly copy of the list to which they could subscribe. http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board-readonly http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board Have fun! -- Max Spevack + http://people.redhat.com/mspevack/ + gpg key -- http://people.redhat.com/mspevack/mspevack.asc + fingerprint -- CD52 5E72 369B B00D 9E9A 773E 2FDB CB46 5A17 CF21 -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Fedora Weekly News Issue 50
Welcome to our issue number 50 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_50 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 Fedora Project Board Update (2006-06-06) 2 Read-Only copy of fedora-advisory-board list 3 Fedora mentioned in Information Week 4 Puplet Icons Design in Progress 5 Fedora on Mactel Testing in Progress 6 Fedora Core 5 Review at Linux Magazine 7 Re-spin your Fedora Core monthly 8 Fedora Stuff at Red Hat Cool Stuff Store 9 Fedora Weekly Reports 2006-06-05 10 Fedora Core 4 and 5 Updates 11 Contributing to Fedora Weekly News 12 Editor's Blog The latest issue can always be found at http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Latest_Issue We need more volunteer writers who watch the Fedora community and report about what is going on. To find out how you can contribute, please visit http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Contributing_to_Fedora_Weekly_News See you in next issue of FWN! -- Thomas Chung FedoraNEWS.ORG (http://fedoranews.org) ..where you can free your knowledge for your free community! -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
the push toward fc6
My fellow Fedora-ites, Many of you have probably seen this, but for those who haven't, I would like to point your attention to an op-ed piece that was recently posted on distrowatch: http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20060612#opinion The author looks at the most recent releases of Ubuntu, SuSe, and Fedora, and concludes that fc5 is possibly one of the most stable and dependable Linux distributions ever built. This is tremendous praise, and I hope that everyone who contributes to Fedora -- whether you contribute code to Core or Extras, documentation, testing, design skills, web work, translation, or something else -- feels a strong sense of pride from this, since it is the combined efforts of the Fedora community that has gotten us to where we are. Everywhere I go, people who find out that I work on Fedora compliment me on fc5. I hear over and over again that it's the best yet, that things just work and that it's powerful and slick. The credit for all of this belongs to the developers, release engineers, and testers who put in countless hours to get us there. Thank you. We have a devel freeze for fc6-test1 tomorrow, and a scheduled release of fc6-test1 next Wednesday. So I'd like to thank all of the people who have been working hard on getting things ready, and I'd like to urge everyone to put in the testing effort that we need to make sure that fc6 lives up to the same standard that we created for fc5. Will Woods is our Fedora Test Lead, and fc6 is going to be the first release that he works on. Please offer him your help, your time, and your talent. We will continue to make our mark by being the most innovative and highest quality distribution. Let the other folks talk about it -- meanwhile, we'll just keep making it happen. You are Fedora. -- Max Spevack + http://people.redhat.com/mspevack/ + gpg key -- http://people.redhat.com/mspevack/mspevack.asc + fingerprint -- CD52 5E72 369B B00D 9E9A 773E 2FDB CB46 5A17 CF21 -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Unofficial FAQ Update: 2006-06-09
Howdy Fedora. I did a little update to the Unofficial Fedora FAQ. As always, the FAQ is at: http://www.fedorafaq.org/ * Updated the NTFS, ATI, and nVidia instructions to also work for dual-processor or dual-core machines. * Updated the Java instructions to the latest version of Java 1.5.0 (Update 7). * Fixed a few typos and other small things. As always, I really appreciate your contributions: http://www.fedorafaq.org/contribute/ -Max -- http://www.insiderfaq.com/ The Insider FAQ: Linux Made Simple. -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Fedora Weekly News Issue 51
Welcome to our issue number 51 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_51 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 Red Hat Magazine Issue 20 June 2006 2 Looking for a few good women (and men) 3 Interview with Max Spevack from the Fedora project 4 Distrowatch: Still undecided? Then install Fedora Core 5! 5 Google Earth 4 Beta for Linux 6 Red Hat Fedora 5 Unleashed Book 7 IT Reviews: Fedora Core 5 Review 8 Open Video Contest goes live this week 9 Fedora Weekly Reports 2006-06-12 10 Fedora Core 4 and 5 Updates 11 Contributing to Fedora Weekly News 12 Editor's Blog The latest issue can always be found at http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Latest_Issue We need more volunteer writers who watch the Fedora community and report about what is going on. To find out how you can contribute, please visit http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Contributing_to_Fedora_Weekly_News See you in next issue of FWN! -- Thomas Chung FedoraNEWS.ORG (http://fedoranews.org) ..where you can free your knowledge for your free community! -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
CREATIVE COMMONS ANNOUNCES OPEN VIDEO CONTEST WITH THE FEDORA PROJECT
CREATIVE COMMONS ANNOUNCES OPEN VIDEO CONTEST WITH THE FEDORA PROJECT San Francisco, USA - June 20, 2006 Creative Commons and the Fedora Project are pleased to announce the Open Video Contest taking place now. The contest promotes flexible copyright, open media formats and the Fedora Project. Entries must be 30 seconds or less, in OGG Theora format, promote freedom and openness, and be released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license. Visit http://creativecommons.org/video/openvideocontest/ before July 20, 2006 to enter. The contest will be judged by representatives of the Fedora Project and Red Hat, Creative Commons jurisdiction leads from Brazil, Nigeria, and Poland, and a representative of the Wikimedia Foundation Special Projects Committee. This contest spreads the message that a combination of open licensing, open formats and open source software gives creators, consumers, and developers infinite freedom says Alex Maier, Chair of Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee. About OGG Theora Theora is an open, royalty-free video codec developed by the Xiph.org Foundation as part of the Ogg multimedia framework. Theora is released to the public under a BSD-style open source software license, completely free for commercial or noncommercial use. For more information about Theora visit http://theora.org. About the Fedora Project The Fedora Project is a Red Hat-sponsored and community-supported open source project. The goal? Work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from free software. Public forum. Rapid progress. Open process. A proving ground for new technology that may eventually make its way into Red Hat products. Fedora Core is an operating system and platform, based on Linux, that is always free for anyone to use, modify and distribute, now and forever. It is developed by a large community of people who strive to provide and maintain the very best in free, open source software and standards. About Creative Commons Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that promotes the creative re-use of intellectual and artistic works – whether owned or in the public domain. Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms that build upon the all rights reserved concept of traditional copyright to offer a voluntary some rights reserved approach. Creative Commons is sustained by the generous support of various foundations including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Omidyar Network Fund, the Hewlett Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation, as well as members of the public. For more information about Creative Commons, visit the organization's Web site (http://creativecommons.org/). Contact Eric Steuer Creative Director, Creative Commons [EMAIL PROTECTED] Press Kit http://creativecommons.org/presskit -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Announcing Fedora Core 6 Test 1 (5.90)
Just two years ago, a brave test pilot by the name of Mike Melvill successfully guided SpaceShipOne 62 miles above California, USA, overcoming technical problems that could have proven tragic to become the first civilian to reach space, part of a team effort that won the ANSARI X Prize. A team of civilians working together to accomplish a dream, an unbelievable goal. Today, we of the Fedora Project send our test pilot out into the world, hoping to do the impossible. Improve upon the last release! (: Fedora Core 6 Test 1 (5.90) Now Available == The Fedora Project announces the first release of the Fedora Core 6 development cycle, available for the i386, x86_64, and ppc/ppc64 architectures, including Intel based Macintosh computers. Beware that Test releases are recommended only for Linux experts/enthusiasts or for the technology evaluation, as many parts are likely to be broken adn the rate of change is rapid. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Core/Schedule Test 2 is scheduled for release July 19, marking the developmental freeze of the Fedora Core 6 release. No new features after this point. It is important that we get your help in testing, reporting and suggesting fixes for bugs, and directing the technological improvements we attempt with this release of Fedora Core. Please direct bugs to http://bugzilla.redhat.com, product Fedora Core, Version fc6test1. As always, be sure that your bug is not already fixed by updates and search for existing bugs before filing. Thanks to all in the Fedora Project Community who have contributed to this release. Your continued efforts are what makes Fedora possible. Downloads = DVD, CD and network installation are available. Please read the Important Warnings below in this announcement for more details. http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ The recommended method of download is via BitTorrent from this site. http://fedora.redhat.com/Download/mirrors.html HTTP, FTP, and RSYNC downloads are available from Fedora Project mirrors listed above. Note that not all mirrors may be synced at this time. Notable Features of FC6 Test 1 == * Support for the Intel based Macintosh platform, see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraOnMactel * ipv6 support in the installer * scim-bridge for improved i18n input * puplet applet for update notifications * new printing system (new system-config-printer, cups 1.2, new GTK+ printing technology) * gnome 2.15 * kde 3.5.3 * 1600+ Extras packages conveniently available via yum Have fun testing and never stop reaching for the stars! -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Fedora Project Board Update (2006-06-20)
The summary from yesterday's Fedora Project Board meeting is now available on the wiki. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Meetings/2006-06-20 As always, your thoughts and comments are encouraged on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Max -- Max Spevack + http://people.redhat.com/mspevack/ + gpg key -- http://people.redhat.com/mspevack/mspevack.asc + fingerprint -- CD52 5E72 369B B00D 9E9A 773E 2FDB CB46 5A17 CF21 -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Fedora Weekly News Issue 52
Welcome to our issue number 52 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_52 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 Open Video Contest takes place now 2 Announcing Fedora Core 6 Test 1 (5.90) 3 A Fresh Look for Fedora Core 6 4 Phoronix: Fedora Core 6 Preview 5 FC6T1 mostly running on MacTel Mini 6 Yum Extender Update 7 Ohio LinuxFest 2006 schedule announced 8 Red Hat Fedora 5 Unleashed Book Giveaway 9 Fedora Weekly Reports 2006-06-19 10 Fedora Core 4 and 5 Updates 11 Contributing to Fedora Weekly News 12 Editor's Blog The latest issue can always be found at http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Latest_Issue We need more volunteer writers who watch the Fedora community and report about what is going on. To find out how you can contribute, please visit http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Contributing_to_Fedora_Weekly_News See you in next issue of FWN! -- Thomas Chung FedoraNEWS.ORG (http://fedoranews.org) ..where you can free your knowledge for your free community! -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Fedora Weekly News Issue 53
Welcome to our issue number 53 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_53 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 Fedora Core 4 Status Update 2 Red Hat CEO Says Linux Could Become U.S. Standard 3 Request for testing: DejaVu 2.7 font family 4 Mailing List for K-12 Open Source Questions 5 DesktopLinux: Fedora Core 6 Test 1 beckons 6 OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 Is Here 7 QEMU a Virtualization System for Open Source World 8 Red Hat Fedora 5 Unleashed Book Giveaway Winner 9 Fedora Weekly Reports 2006-06-26 10 Fedora Core 4 and 5 Updates 11 Contributing to Fedora Weekly News 12 Editor's Blog The latest issue can always be found at http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Latest_Issue We need more volunteer writers who watch the Fedora community and report about what is going on. To find out how you can contribute, please visit http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Contributing_to_Fedora_Weekly_News See you in next issue of FWN! -- Thomas Chung FedoraNEWS.ORG (http://fedoranews.org) ..where you can free your knowledge for your free community! -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Introducing Fedora Women
In an effort to support the women who use and develop Fedora, the Fedora Women program was launched last week. This new program provides a forum for communication between the women of Fedora, and it will eventually offer additional support to the women that help make Fedora what it is. The fedora-women-list mailing list is now available. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-women-list The #fedora-women IRC channel on freenode is available for live chat. Full details about the program can be found on the Fedora Women project page. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Women -- Patrick The N-Man Barnes The Fedora Project [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PatrickBarnes Have I been helpful? Rate my assistance! http://rate.affero.net/nman64/ -- pgpmpV1CJPg5M.pgp Description: PGP signature -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
FC6 Test2 Freeze Slip
With the update to a 2.6.18-rc based kernel, Xen requires some more effort to get to working. Given that Xen is one of the big features for Fedora Core 6, trying to ship the second test release (and thus the feature freeze) without Xen seems like a less than ideal situation. Therefore, after discussion within the Fedora Board, we have decided to slip the freeze for test2 until Xen is working again with current kernels. Based on current estimates, it looks like this should hopefully be Monday, 24 July. We'll continue to provide updates as more information is available. Jeremy -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Fedora Project Board Update
The meeting summary from the Board's 2006-07-18 meeting is now available. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Meetings/2006-07-18 Topics discussed include: + RPM, which needs continued followup and discussion with the community + Fedora Bugs (bugzilla.redhat.com) + Fedora Core, the package set, and the schedule for fc6 + File Systems and Fedora + Various legal issues + Logo and Trademark The next meeting of the Board will be on 2006-08-01. Thanks, Max -- Max Spevack + http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MaxSpevack + gpg key -- http://spevack.org/max.asc + fingerprint -- CD52 5E72 369B B00D 9E9A 773E 2FDB CB46 5A17 CF21 -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
fedoraproject.org wiki down
The Fedora Project wiki is currently down. We are working to resolve the issue. Apologies for the inconvenience. Bill -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Re: fedoraproject.org wiki down
On Thursday 03 August 2006 22:07, Bill Nottingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Fedora Project wiki is currently down. We are working to resolve the issue. Apologies for the inconvenience. A hardware failure was the cause of the problem. We have restored the site from a recent backup and services should now be returning to normal. Since we were forced to use a backup, some of the most recent changes may have been lost. If you made any changes over the last 24-48 hours, you may need to repeat those changes. Again, we apologize for any inconvenience. -- Patrick The N-Man Barnes The Fedora Project [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PatrickBarnes Have I been helpful? Rate my assistance! http://rate.affero.net/nman64/ -- pgp2770Zfwd2o.pgp Description: PGP signature -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Fedora Core 4 Transferred to Fedora Legacy
With the release of Fedora Core 6 Test 2, the Fedora Core Steering Committee would like to announce the transfer of Fedora Core 4 to the Fedora Legacy Project. For more information on the Fedora Legacy Project, or if you wish to join the team, please see http://fedoralegacy.org/. -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Fedora usability was born!
Hello everyone, I announce that the Fedora usability Project was born.What's fedora Usability? The Fedora Usability project aims to provide coherence, accessibility and intuivity for all people using Fedora Core and its associated resources. Fedora must be easy and making things simple and coherent for a pleasant use is my objectif with this project. Our Mission- Help developers to build coherent and easy to use applications for Fedora human users- Help webmasters to provide coherent websites- Help Docs Writers to provide a coherent and comprehensive documentation How do we work?We track uncoherent things in the fedora project and send patch to different maintainers to fix those. All things are listed on the schedule and you are free to provide your assistance. For more informations about this project, see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/UsabilityYou want help ? Feel free to add your name to the Usability Group : http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EditGroupYou can join http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list and #fedora-usability channel on irc.freenode.org to speak about this ;-)Damien Durand -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Join Fedora @ LinuxWorld SF 2006
Hitch yer saddles and get on yer ponies because Fedora is going west!! What? The Fedora Project booth (.org Pavilion #20) (http://tinyurl.com/gu3a2) and Birds of a Feather Session (http://tinyurl.com/krj2p) at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo San Francisco 2006! (http://www.linuxworldexpo.com) Where? Moscone Center North 800 Howard Street San Francisco, CA 94103 When? Fedora Booth is open on the show floor in the .org Pavilion August 15-17. The Fedora BoF will be held on Tuesday August 15th at 6:00pm-7:00pm. Who? Everyone!! Fedora welcomes all community members and anyone interested in learning about attaining freedom through software. Don't know what Linux or Fedora is? Interested in learning more about Linux, Fedora and how they can benefit you? Stop by the booth and ask your questions and get free stuff! Are you already a member of the community with time to kill and would like to help us run the booth? Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] and let him know. How? Plane, train, bus, horse, camel, lamaa. Make sure you print your free exhibit hall pass by visiting http://tinyurl.com/grr2l and registering. See you all in San Francisco! -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Fedora Weekly News Issue 59
Welcome to our issue number 59 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_59 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 Join Fedora @ LinuxWorld SF 2006 2 Announcing Fedora Core 6 Test 2 3 Fedora Core 4 Transferred to Fedora Legacy 4 Fedora Core 4 Support and Yum Config 5 Fedora usability was born! 6 Review: Fedora Core 6 - First Impressions 7 Fedora Weekly Reports 2006-08-07 8 Fedora Core 5 Updates 9 Contributing to Fedora Weekly News 10 Editor's Blog The latest issue can always be found at http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Latest_Issue We need more volunteer writers who watch the Fedora community and report about what is going on. To find out how you can contribute, please visit http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Contributing_to_Fedora_Weekly_News See you in next issue of FWN! -- Thomas Chung FedoraNEWS.ORG (http://fedoranews.org) ..where you can free your knowledge for your free community! -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Fedora Weekly News Issue 60
Welcome to our issue number 60 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_60 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 Max Spevack: Fedora on Slashdot 2 Jesse Keating: Fedora Legacy Answers 3 Rahul Sundaram: Red Hat and Intellectual Property Reform 4 Luke Macken: Teaching an old pup some new tricks 5 Tom Tromey: Fedora Core 6 Test 2 6 XenSource CTO Talks Up Xen Virtualization 7 OLPC laptops to debut with Thai kids 8 Where's Red Hat? Peek Under Fedora 9 Fedora Weekly Reports 2006-08-14 10 Fedora Core 5 Updates 11 Contributing to Fedora Weekly News 12 Editor's Blog The latest issue can always be found at http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Latest_Issue We need more volunteer writers who watch the Fedora community and report about what is going on. To find out how you can contribute, please visit http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Contributing_to_Fedora_Weekly_News See you in next issue of FWN! -- Thomas Chung FedoraNEWS.ORG (http://fedoranews.org) ..where you can free your knowledge for your free community! -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
What's been up to FedoraNEWS.ORG?
As we have reached our 60th Issue[1] of Fedora Weekly News, I thought it would be a good time to look back what's been up to FedoraNEWS.ORG for next few month. Looking back, it's been quite a journey for FedoraNEWS.ORG when it was first launched on 2003-11-09[2]. It started as my personal web site where I publish notes I took as I explore Fedora Core 1. Since then, the site has changed its face a few times from HTML to WordPress then WikiMedia and now Drupal. Our weekly newsletter Fedora Weekly News is now being translated in 8 different languages including English, French, German, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, Korean, Serbian and we're even offering Podcast in English and French! What a remarkable accomplishment you might say. To tell you the truth, there were times when I wake up middle of the night to start the article and finish it well after 4 in the morning and asking myself why am I doing this? Does this ever end? When will be a good time to take a break? A perfect time has come. Beginning Monday August 28th until Sunday October 1st, FedoraNEWS.ORG will be taking a long vacation. It's time for us (me and my wife) to give full attention to our unborn baby and soon-to-be new member of Fedora Community. :) [1] http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_60 [2] http://fedoranews.org/tchung/howto/2003-11-09-yum-intro.shtml Best Regards, -- Thomas Chung FedoraNEWS.ORG (http://fedoranews.org) ..where you can free your knowledge for your free community! -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Fedora Core Live Spins Released!
Fedora Unity releases Fedora Core 5 Live-Spin ISO images. Official Fedora Live images are something we all have been looking forward to seeing in the Fedora Community. Kadischi will be the tool to create such live images. Fedora Unity has recently joined forces with Kadischi to help provide testing and to release live images which we are calling Live-Spins. The Fedora Unity Project is proud to announce the release of a new Live-Spin CD and DVD ISO image of Fedora Core 5. These Live-Spin ISOs are based on Fedora Core 5 and all updates released as of August 21st, 2006. They are available for the i386 architecture via BitTorrent starting Monday, August 28th, 2006 via BitTorrent. The Fedora Core 5 CD image features a 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5 kernel and GNOME 2.14.1, along with applications such as xchat, gftp, OpenOffice.org 2.0.3, and other utilities. The DVD image includes roughly everything but the kitchen sink. Also available at this time are pristine FC6T2 Live ISO images from the initial FC6T2 release. The Fedora Unity Project was created by concerned peers in the Fedora Community to bring quality solutions to the Community. Project members want to see the best solutions find their way into the hands of the Community. Members include site maintainers, Fedora Project contributors and interested users. Fedora Unity has taken up the Live-Spin task to provide the Community with the chance to test Fedora Core with recent updates in a Live Media environment. This is a Community project, for the Community and by the Community. You can contribute to the Community by seeding the torrent after your download has completed or by joining the test process. The Fedora Unity Project intends to release early and release often. New Live-Spins are provided early each month during the life of each Fedora Core release until that release is transferred to Fedora Legacy. Early snapshots are taken mid-month to start testing. Final snapshots will be taken about a week before the release. All released ISO images are tested to ensure the quality that the Fedora community expects. If you are interested in helping with the testing or seeding efforts, please contact the Fedora Unity team. Contact information is available at http://fedoraunity.org/. Go to http://torrent.fedoraunity.org/ to join the torrent! To report bugs in the Live-Spins please use http://bugs.fedoraunity.org/ For more information about Kadischi see it's page on the wiki http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Kadischi Fedora is a trademark of Red Hat, Inc. -- Robert 'Bob' Jensen ** http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BobJensen gpg fingerprint: F9F4 7243 4243 0043 2C45 97AF E8A4 C3AE 42EB 0BC6 Fedora Unity Project * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://fedoraunity.org/ -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Unofficial FAQ Update: 2006-09-17
Hey folks. :-) I have a nice FAQ update for ya, today: http://www.fedorafaq.org/ * We have some new translations, and even more on the way. * Changed the way that the Java instructions work, so that they work with the latest version of Java. * I've updated the Flash question to explain how to make text work in most Flash apps. * I made a small fix to the MP3 question for KDE users. * I've linked to a resource that may help 64-bit users. If you have any feedback or suggestions, let me know! :-) http://www.fedorafaq.org/contribute/ -Max -- http://www.insiderfaq.com/ The Insider FAQ: Linux Made Simple. -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Release Notes freeze for FC6
Release notes will be frozen on the wiki for translation this Saturday, 23 September 2006. Any content not updated there will not be translated, and will not be in the FC6 final ISO spin. Please make your updates by Friday 22 September 2006 at 2359 UTC to ensure they are available to FC6 users. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/Schedule Content will be unfrozen following the XML conversion and release to the Translation Project. At that time, you may again make changes to the wiki, but these changes will *NOT* be in the ISO or FC6 final release. They will be published on the Web as an errata release. This Web page is linked prominently from the top of the Release Notes included in the FC6 ISO spin. -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Project Board: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board Fedora Docs Project: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
[ANNOUNCE] New mailing list: fedora-selinux
This is to announce the availablity of a new Fedora mailing list for SELinux-specific discussion. The list is for users and developers posting bug reports, avc messages, support questions answers, patches etc. For subscription details, see: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-selinux-list - James -- James Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Fedora Weekly News Issue 61
Welcome to our issue number 61 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_61 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 Fedora Core 6 release date slip 2 FC6 Pre-release (Test4) 3 Ohio Linux Fest 2006 Summary 4 One Laptop Update 5 Red Hat KDE conference talk 6 High-tech social enterprise reaps free software's benefits 7 Fedora Weekly Reports 2006-10-02 8 Fedora Core 5 Updates 9 Contributing to Fedora Weekly News 10 Editor's Blog The latest issue can always be found at http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Latest_Issue We need more volunteer writers who watch the Fedora community and report about what is going on. To find out how you can contribute, please visit http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Contributing_to_Fedora_Weekly_News See you in next issue of FWN! -- Thomas Chung FedoraNEWS.ORG (http://fedoranews.org) ..where you can free your knowledge for your free community! -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Fedora Infrastructure Team - Help Wanted
The Fedora Infrastructure team is looking for some more volunteers to help better support the day to day activities of the Fedora Project contributors and developers. We are looking for dedicated, capable volunteers to help in all aspects of our Infrastructure. We're especially looking for the following skills / experiences: * Python experience (Huge plus right now) * Version Control Systems (CVS, Mercurial, SVN, git, etc) * Users with access to their own test-environments * Troubleshooting Linux and web systems * General systems engineering / administration * Extras Reviewers / Packagers Interested members should check out the getting started page on the wiki (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/GettingStarted). If you'd like to assist in a specific area, contact one of the relevant infrastructure officers (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Officers). Any aid at all helps, from security audits to coders we're looking to make our systems better. If you think you can help, we'd be glad to have you. -Mike -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Fedora Weekly News Issue 62
Welcome to our issue number 62 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_62 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 Inside Fedora Core 6 2 Naming of Fedora Core 6 3 Announcing Dribble a new addon repo 4 Red Hat Linux rises over Chicago 5 Opening doors to open source for women 6 OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 Is Here 7 Fedora Weekly Reports 2006-10-09 8 Fedora Core 5 Updates 9 Contributing to Fedora Weekly News 10 Editor's Blog The latest issue can always be found at http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Latest_Issue We need more volunteer writers who watch the Fedora community and report about what is going on. To find out how you can contribute, please visit http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Contributing_to_Fedora_Weekly_News See you in next issue of FWN! -- Thomas Chung FedoraNEWS.ORG (http://fedoranews.org) ..where you can free your knowledge for your free community! -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Another slip in the FC6 schedule
Over the weekend we ran into a few more bugs with Fedora Core 6 that we decided were important enough to fix. There were some multilib compose issues (wrong packages landing in the wrong dirs), some translation files that would cause tracebacks in things like anaconda (whoops), and a fedora-release package that forgot to enable updates (double whoops). For these reasons and a few others, we decided to respin the release candidate tree and push the release date out another couple of days. The current plan is to spin a release candidate this evening with some last minute fixes, and start the sync. Validation has gone very well up to this point and baring any blow ups in the spin process, the release looks very solid. We're planning to release on Thursday Oct 19th. This should give the mirrors enough days to sync up. If things blow up horribly and we have to spin again tomorrow, depending on what time we have to respin we may slip until next week, as releasing on Fridays or Mondays gets you the wrath of the mirror admins (: I want to thank you all for playing along and helping us to make FC6 the best release yet! -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora pgpihW8qozqey.pgp Description: PGP signature -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Fedora Weekly News Issue 63
Welcome to our issue number 63 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_63 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 Fedora Core 6 Tours 2 Fedora Infrastructure Team - Help Wanted 3 Calling for Desktop Environment Artists 4 Neat Things for Fedora Core 6 5 Fedora Reloaded 6 Podcast Available 6 ATI Fedora Core 6 How-To 7 Flash Player 9 Update for Linux Released 8 Yet another online Linux distro chooser 9 Fedora Weekly Reports 2006-10-16 10 Fedora Core 5 Updates 11 Contributing to Fedora Weekly News 12 Editor's Blog The latest issue can always be found at http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Latest_Issue We need more volunteer writers who watch the Fedora community and report about what is going on. To find out how you can contribute, please visit http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Contributing_to_Fedora_Weekly_News See you in next issue of FWN! -- Thomas Chung FedoraNEWS.ORG (http://fedoranews.org) ..where you can free your knowledge for your free community! -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Announcing Fedora Core 6 (Zod)
This is the announcement of Zod. Zod permits you to call him Fedora Core 6. Tremble, Earthlings, for Zod is released from the confines of testing. Zod intends to hammer the servers of the world ... starting TODAY! For those who chose the world-domination-acceptance package in your last installation, you need do nothing -- Zod is beaming itself to your computers already. If your keyboard begins to get hot, back away ... very ... slowly ... For the rest of you minions who failed to do Zod's bidding previously, this is your ONE AND ONLY CHANCE to redeem yourself. Go quickly! Download the torrent NOW. Obtain the ISO immediately. Zod's minions know to back up their /home directory and to begin immediate installation of the GREATEST version of Fedora Core EVER. When you are done genuflecting, listen carefully. Zod now delivers an important message to Zod's predecessor, the Fifth Iteration of Fedora Core, known to some as Bordeaux: KNEEL BEFORE ZOD, for Zod has many improvements that convince users to upgrade and abandon you! Ph34r me! Mwahahahaha. Zod accepts that the Fedora Project continues to provide software and security updates for Bordeaux, as per the policy of Zod's minions. Zod chooses to permit this action to continue. Those who would understand Zod must begin here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FC6ReleaseSummary http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/ Massive downloading of Zod is known to melt servers worldwide, so Zod commands all who are able to use bittorrent. http://torrent.fedoraproject.org For other ways to get Zod, read http://www.redhat.com/fedora/ -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
rpm.livna.org FC6 support
Hello Dear Fedora Users. The rpm.livna.org team is proud to announce rpm.livna.org repository complete support starting today for the 6th release of the Fedora Core and Extras distribution. The rpm.livna.org repository provides amongst many packages: - Drivers with precompiled kernel modules : ATI and Nvidia graphics drivers, ndiswrapper, madwifi. - Firmwares : ipw2100-firmware, ipw2200-firmware - Media players : xine-lib based players, mplayer, videolan client - Gstreamer plugins To use the rpm.livna.org repository, simply install the following livna-release package: http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm Bug reports can be addressed at our bugzilla: http://bugzilla.livna.org/ Have a nice Fedora Core 6, everyone. -- The RPM.Livna.org Team -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Fedora Core 6 (Zod) Live-Spins Released
Fedora Unity releases Fedora Core 6 (Zod) Live-Spin ISO images. Official Fedora Live CD/DVD images are something many have been looking forward to seeing from the Fedora community. Fedora Unity has joined forces with the Kadischi development team to test and release live images, called Live-Spins. The Fedora Unity Project is proud to announce the initial release of several Fedora Core 6 Live-Spin CD and DVD ISO images. These Live-Spins are based on the 24 October initial release of Fedora Core 6. They are available for the i386 and x86_64 architectures via BitTorrent immediately. A Live-Spin CD or DVD provides a reasonably useful web browser/email/OpenOffice access, said Jef Spaleta, long time Fedora community member. It should be a good quick peek at what the FC6 desktops feel like ... without having to do a full install. He added, 9 out of 10 voices in my head agree: 'Unity's Live-Spin CD is a pretty good starting point for future live CD development.' Fedora Core 6 GNOME Live-Spin CD images (i386 and x86_64) include: 2.6.18-1.2798_FC6 kernel GNOME 2.16.0 Nautilus CD Burner 2.16.0 Firefox 1.5.0.7 Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 X-Chat 2.6.6 OpenOffice 2.0.4 Evolution 2.8.0 and various other desktop applications. The Fedora Core 6 KDE Live-Spin CD (i386 only) image includes: 2.6.18-1.2798_FC6 kernel KDE 3.5.4 K3B 0.12.15 Firefox 1.5.0.7 Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 X-Chat 2.6.6 OpenOffice 2.0.4 Evolution 2.8.0 and various other desktop applications. The Fedora Core 6 Server Live-Spin CD (i386 and x86_64) images include: 2.6.18-1.2798_FC6 kernel Apache 2.2.3 MySql 5.0.22 PHP 5.1.6 Python 2.4.3 and various other server admin utilities. The DVD images (i386 and x86_64) include: Everything for a desktop that you might want to see from under the Fedora umbrella for the same low price. It has been said in the past that Fedora Unity's Live-Spin DVD included everything but the kitchen sink. The only reason the kitchen sink is not included is that it has not yet been packaged for Fedora Extras. Nearly all the GNOME apps, nearly all the KDE apps, XFCE4, and a whole load of packages for the desktop from Fedora Extras. This ISO even includes the long wanted NTFS support by including the ntfs-3g package that is now in Extras. Because of the size of this LiveDVD you may need more than 512 MiB of RAM for it to run effectively. About The Fedora Unity Project: The Fedora Unity Project was created by concerned peers in the Fedora community to bring quality solutions to the community. We want to see the best solutions find their way into the hands of the community. We are site maintainers, Fedora Project contributors, and interested users, just like you. Fedora Unity has taken up the Live-Spin task to provide the community with the chance to test and experience Fedora Core in a live media environment. This is a community project, for the community and by the community. You can contribute to the community by seeding the torrent after your download has completed or by joining the test process. The Fedora Unity Project intends to release early and release often. We hope to release new Re-Spins and Live-Spins to the community early each month. These releases will continue throughout the life of each Fedora Core release until that release is transferred to Fedora Legacy. Early snapshots are taken mid-month to start testing. Final snapshots are taken about a week before the release. All released ISO images are tested to ensure the quality that the Fedora community expects and deserves. If you are interested in helping with the testing/development or seeding/hosting efforts, please contact the Fedora Unity team. Contact information is available at http://fedoraunity.org/contact-info . To join the torrent: http://torrent.fedoraunity.org/ For detailed package lists or the get a copy of our kickstart files: http://fedoraunity.org/ To report bugs in the Live-Spins: http://bugs.fedoraunity.org/ For more information about Kadischi: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Kadischi -- Robert 'Bob' Jensen ** http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BobJensen gpg fingerprint: F9F4 7243 4243 0043 2C45 97AF E8A4 C3AE 42EB 0BC6 Fedora Unity Project * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://fedoraunity.org/ -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
ATrpms for FC6
ATrpms is officially launching Fedora Core 6 support for i386, x86_64 and ppc. http://ATrpms.net/dist/fc6/ o The actual download location is http://dl.atrpms.net/. Mirrors are listed at http://atrpms.net/mirrors/ o stable, testing and bleeding, the three subrepos per distribution are not cumulative inclusive on the server side. E.g. you need to add stable for testing, and both stable and testing for bleeding. ATrpms is a 3rd party general purpose package repository. It currently supports o FC6/i386, FC6/x86_64, FC6/ppc, FC5/i386, FC5/x86_64, FC5/ppc, FC4/i386, FC4/x86_64 FC3/i386, FC3/x86_64, FC2/i386, FC2/x86_64, FC1 o RHEL4/i386, RHEL4/x86_64, RHEL3/i386, RHEL3/x86_64 o RH9, RH8.0 and RH7.3 ATrpms support for some of these distribution will go EOL by the ned of the year. configuration for package resolvers (replace i386 with x86_64 if needed) o yum [atrpms] name=Fedora Core 6 - i386 - ATrpms baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/fc6-i386/atrpms/stable o smart [atrpms] name=Fedora Core 5 - i386 - ATrpms baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/fc5-i386/atrpms/stable type=rpm-md o apt repomd http://dl.atrpms.net fc5-i386/atrpms/stable you can provide feedback or request support on the ATrpms lists (http://lists.atrpms.net/), or the common bug tracker (http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/). Enjoy! -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net pgpweEsCANbKX.pgp Description: PGP signature -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Cooperative Bug Isolation for FC6
The Cooperative Bug Isolation Project (CBI) is now available for Fedora Core 6. CBI (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/) is an ongoing research effort to find and fix bugs in the real world. We distribute specially modified versions of popular open source software packages. These special versions monitor their own behavior while they run, and report back how they work (or how they fail to work) in the hands of real users like you. Even if you’ve never written a line of code in your life, you can help make things better for everyone simply by using our special bug-hunting packages. We currently offer instrumented versions of Evolution, Gaim, The GIMP, GNOME Panel, Gnumeric, Nautilus, Rhythmbox, and SPIM. Download at http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/downloads/. We support yum, apt, and many other RPM updater tools; see http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/downloads/repo-config.html for customized configuration help for any of our supported distributions and updater tools. Or just download and install http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/downloads/rpm/fedora-6-i386/RPMS.tools/cbi-package-config-6-4.i386.rpm to automatically configure most popular RPM updaters to use the CBI repository. It's that easy! Tell your friends! Tell your neighbors! The more of you there are, the more bugs we can find. We still offer CBI packages for Fedora Core 1/2/4/5 too. When and if you decide to upgrade to FC6, we'll be ready for you. Until then, your participation remains valuable! -- Dr. Ben, the CBI guy -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Fedora Weekly News Issue 64
Welcome to our issue number 64 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_64 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 Announcing Fedora Core 6 (Zod) 2 Fedora Core 6 (Zod) Live-Spins Released 3 Third Party FC6 Repositories Announcements 4 Phoronix: Fedora Core 6 Review 5 Lunarpark6: Fedora Core 6 Review 6 LinuxForm: Fedora Core 6 Reivew 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Fedora Core 6 Review 8 O'Reily OnLamp: Fedora Core 6 Review 9 Fedora Weekly Reports 2006-10-23 10 Fedora Core 5 and 6 Updates 11 Contributing to Fedora Weekly News 12 Editor's Blog The latest issue can always be found at http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Latest_Issue We need more volunteer writers who watch the Fedora community and report about what is going on. To find out how you can contribute, please visit http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Contributing_to_Fedora_Weekly_News See you in next issue of FWN! -- Thomas Chung FedoraNEWS.ORG (http://fedoranews.org) ..where you can free your knowledge for your free community! -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Fedora Core 6 Common Issues
Hi Here is a list of a commonly reported issues that have come up in Fedora Core 6 along with workarounds. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/FC6Common Based on the reviews and user feedback this is our best our release of Fedora Core 6 yet. Active development for the next release of Fedora is already under rapid progress. Early testing would help us avoid problems and improve the quality of general releases. To participate in testing, refer to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Testing. Thank you for your continuous contributions and feedback. Rahul -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Fedora Weekly News Issue 66
Welcome to our issue number 66 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_66 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 Fedora Summit Preparations 2 Fedora Ambassadors Day 3 Fedora Directory Server 1.0.4 is released 4 Announcing pungi-0.1.0 5 Why every child deserves a laptop 6 OLPC taps 2.6.19 kernel 7 Review: Fedora Core 6 8 Review: Fedora Core 6 9 Fedora Weekly Reports 2006-11-06 10 Fedora Core 5 and 6 Updates 11 Contributing to Fedora Weekly News 12 Editor's Blog The latest issue can always be found at http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Latest_Issue We need more volunteer writers who watch the Fedora community and report about what is going on. To find out how you can contribute, please visit http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Contributing_to_Fedora_Weekly_News See you in next issue of FWN! -- Thomas Chung FedoraNEWS.ORG (http://fedoranews.org) ..where you can free your knowledge for your free community! -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Fedora Weekly News Issue 68
Welcome to our issue number 68 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_68 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 Fedora 7 Artwork Proposals 2 Peace In Our Time 3 VanLUG Report 4 SCALE Readies 'Non-Commercial' Open Source Conference 5 Review: Fedora Core 6 6 Review: Fedora Core 6 7 Fedora Weekly Reports 2006-11-20 8 Fedora Core 5 and 6 Updates 9 Contributing to Fedora Weekly News 10 Editor's Blog The latest issue can always be found at http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Latest_Issue We need more volunteer writers who watch the Fedora community and report about what is going on. To find out how you can contribute, please visit http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Contributing_to_Fedora_Weekly_News See you in next issue of FWN! -- Thomas Chung FedoraNEWS.ORG (http://fedoranews.org) ..where you can free your knowledge for your free community! -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
fedora project is hiring
As of today, Red Hat has an open position within the Fedora Project. http://redhat.hrdpt.com/cgi-bin/a/highlightjob.cgi?jobid=1810 The job is for a Fedora Infrastructure leader. No point in writing more here, since I wrote the job description that you'll read if you click the link above. There is no location restriction on this job. It can be performed from Red Hat's headquarters in Raleigh NC, from our Westford MA office, or from a remote location, as long as the person is willing to travel to Raleigh, Westford, or various data centers as needed. Hiring regulations *require* that anyone who is interested submit their resume through the online application process. However, if you would *in addition* send an email to me as well, that certainly wouldn't be a bad thing. -- Max Spevack + http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MaxSpevack + gpg key -- http://spevack.org/max.asc + fingerprint -- CD52 5E72 369B B00D 9E9A 773E 2FDB CB46 5A17 CF21 -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Fedora Weekly News Issue 69
Welcome to our issue number 69 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_69 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 Fedora Project is Hiring 2 Fedora Ambassadors Day 3 Eclipse on Linux Distributions Project 4 FUDCon Boston 2007 5 SCALE 5X Registration Opens 6 Migration to Fedora Core 6 7 Fedora Weekly Reports 2006-11-27 8 Fedora Core 5 and 6 Updates 9 Contributing to Fedora Weekly News 10 Editor's Blog The latest issue can always be found at http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Latest_Issue We need more volunteer writers who watch the Fedora community and report about what is going on. To find out how you can contribute, please visit http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Contributing_to_Fedora_Weekly_News See you in next issue of FWN! -- Thomas Chung FedoraNEWS.ORG (http://fedoranews.org) ..where you can free your knowledge for your free community! -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Fedora Weekly News Issue 70
Welcome to our issue number 70 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_70 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 Help Needed: Integration of Fedora Directory Server 2 Fedora 7 Theme Needs Your Help! 3 Mozilla Corp. to work more closely with Linux distributors 4 Zod LiveCD Beta Available 5 Linux For You December 2006 Articles 6 Fedora Ambassador's Day Daily Blogs 7 Fedora Weekly Reports 2006-12-04 8 Fedora Core 5 and 6 Updates 9 Contributing to Fedora Weekly News 10 Editor's Blog The latest issue can always be found at http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Latest_Issue We need more volunteer writers who watch the Fedora community and report about what is going on. To find out how you can contribute, please visit http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Contributing_to_Fedora_Weekly_News See you in next issue of FWN! -- Thomas Chung FedoraNEWS.ORG (http://fedoranews.org) ..where you can free your knowledge for your free community! -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
RPM -- plans, goals, etc.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There has been a lot of discussion in the past few months about RPM -- its present state, its future plans, and its leadership team. In particular, the Fedora Project has received numerous requests asking us, what are you guys doing about RPM? Here is our answer, in a few words. Then if you want more, you can read the rest of this note: The Fedora Project is leading the creation of a new community around RPM. One in which the leaders can come from Fedora, from Red Hat, from Novell, from Mandriva, or from anywhere. Job #1 is to take the current RPM codebase and clean it up, and in doing so work with all the other people and groups who rely on RPM to build a first-rate upstream project. == The Fedora Board has spoken with Fedora stakeholders both inside and outside Red Hat, developers/maintainers in Novell, and other parties who rely on RPM as the foundation for their distributions. We wanted to make sure those parties agreed that this was the right thing to do for their respective communities. We touched base with some of these people at the recent LSB conference, and the overwhelming community opinion there was in favor of what we are outlining here. At the most fundamental level, we begin with two points: (1) RPM is an important piece of technology, not just for Fedora or for Red Hat, but for many other distributions and users. Its stability and maintenance are critical. (2) Red Hat realizes the need to build a strong community of contributors around RPM, that the upstream of RPM needs to be handled in a manner which allows contributors and developers to have maximum freedom in their modifications, and that those modifications can be easily shared across distributions. Expanding on that: (3) RPM, as a file format, is good at what it does and capable of being the core of a Linux distribution. From the Fedora perspective, we are not particularly interested in making any grand deviations from it at this time. (4) RPM, as an application, has a fairly mature feature set that we are very interested in stabilizing and bug fixing. Furthermore, we want to make sure that RPM is a stable and simplified base for the building of other technologies on top of it. Down the road, we might be interested in exploring a variety of new features, but we don't believe that should be the initial focus of our efforts. Ultimately, the Fedora Project and Red Hat are committed to seeing RPM be as healthy and vibrant as many other large open source projects -- GNOME, Xorg, etc -- consumed and contributed to by many companies, users, distributions, and developers. Our overall goal for RPM is to ensure that is has consistency, reliability, and stability. We switch now to a handy QA format: Q -- So what, specifically, are you doing with RPM? And where is the work going to happen? We have set up a new repository, wiki, and webspace -- external to any distribution or company -- for RPM, to which anyone can contribute. A reboot of the upstream, if you will. We don't expect that everyone will be running the same version of RPM, or run with the same patches, but we'd like for there to be a single place that everyone can refer to as upstream, and be able to contribute patches. There is already a contributor base that exists around RPM -- engineers within Red Hat, Novell, Mandriva, and other organizations. We don't want to leave those people behind -- we want to do a better job of collaborating and accepting their work. Everything will live at rpm.org, with a relaunched wiki, code repository, and mailing lists. As for rpm.org itself, its hosting and maintainership is outside of Red Hat, and is being generously provided by Duke University. Q -- How is that different from what currently exists? What we're doing here is collecting together everyone who has a stake in the future of RPM and building a healthy community around it. This involves major bug fixing, development work, performance work and making regular, predictable releases. As it stands today, we don't have these things. This is a good first step. Could you call it a fork? Maybe. But we're doing it because we think it's the right thing to do, for distributions all the way down to the individual users of RPM. Q -- Where is all this stuff going to happen? What's the public mailing list and wiki? What *EXACTLY* is Fedora or Red Hat going to do? Short answer -- http://rpm.org Over the past few years, engineers from Red Hat and other companies, as well as a community of independent contributors, have been working on and maintaining their own versions of RPM -- sometimes sharing patches, sometimes not. It is important that these contributions move through an upstream process like many other projects do, in order to maintain a healthy community and proper checks and balances. To that end, Red Hat is adding an additional engineer
Announcing the Fedora 6 Zod live CD and live CD tools
Hi, After lots of feedback, bug fixing and testing of the beta live CD announced 3 weeks ago, I'm pleased to announce the first official Fedora live CD. This live CD is based on packages from the Fedora Core 6 (codenamed Zod) and Fedora Extras package collections and is such 100% free software. At a glance, the live CD features o Linux 2.6.18 o GNOME 2.16 desktop environment o GStreamer 0.10 multimedia framework o X.org 7.1 o AIGLX and Compiz for 3D desktop o Lots of applications including, but not limited to o Beagle (Desktop Search) o F-Spot (Photo Management) o Evolution (Email and Calendering) o Firefox (Web Browsing) o Ekiga (IP telephony) o Rhythmbox (Music Player) o Totem (Movie Player) o Games (Games) o The Gimp (Graphics) o Inkscape (Vector Graphics) o Abiword (Word Processor) o Gnumeric (Spreadsheet) o nautilus-open-terminal (For the adult in you) o Assistive Technology including the Orca screen reader o NetworkManager is on by default o VPN connectivity software including vnpc and OpenVPN o Partition editing via GParted o SELinux targeted mode including the SELinux trouble shooter o Many many fonts; almost 100% coverage o All the localizations included in FC6 and FC6 o All the input methods (SCIM) present in FC6 o Exclusive live CD wallpaper you won't find in FC6 or FE6! o R/W file system so you can install software on the running live CD o Ability to run from RAM if you have 1GB or more of memory o and lots and lots more.. The live CD is currently only available for i386 architectures. Support for other architectures including ppc and x86_64 is planned. The live cd weighs around 682MB. Download from http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/projects/live/FC-6-i386-livecd-1.iso SHA1SUM: 8771d21af1974492424438cbe42f1bae0161ea96 FC-6-i386-livecd-1.iso or get on the Torrent using http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/torrents/Zod-livecd-1-i386.torrent Feedback can be given in Bugzilla; file a bug against the component you have an issue with.. and make it block this tracker bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=FC6LiveCDTracker if you believe it's a live CD specific bug. Don't get burned on Christmas shopping, burn the gift of a live CD! This live CD is built using a source code based on the pilgrim project. This is an open project and participation is encouraged and appreciated. See these documents on how to get involved hacking on the code and what it's all about http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=users/david/livecd-tools.git;a=blob;hb=HEAD;f=HACKING http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=users/david/livecd-tools.git;a=blob;hb=HEAD;f=README Participate on the Fedora Live CD mailing list and the Wiki page to make the Fedora live CD experience even better http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list The livecd-tools and fedora-livecd packages, which is required to rebuild the live CD, have just been submitted to Fedora Extras, see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=220635 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=220637 for details. Until these packages are in Extras, you can grab source and binary i386 packages from here http://people.redhat.com/davidz/livecd/ and start cranking out your own live CD's. Thanks and a merry Christmas break to everyone! David -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Fedora Weekly News Issue 72
Welcome to our issue number 72 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_72 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 One Million Fedora Users! 2 FUDCon Reminder 3 Fedora 7 Schedule 4 Speaking at SCALE 5 Security Features in RHEL and Fedora Core 6 Security Week in Review 2006-12-31 7 Fedora Weekly Reports 2007-01-01 8 Fedora Core 5 and 6 Updates 9 Contributing to Fedora Weekly News 10 Editor's Blog The latest issue can always be found at http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Latest_Issue We need more volunteer writers who watch the Fedora community and report about what is going on. To find out how you can contribute, please visit http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Contributing_to_Fedora_Weekly_News See you in next issue of FWN! -- Thomas Chung FedoraNEWS.ORG (http://fedoranews.org) ..where you can free your knowledge for your free community! -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Fedora Weekly News Issue 75
Welcome to our issue number 75 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_75 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 Fedora 7 Test 1 Freeze 2 Fedora 7 Test 1 Approaching 3 Plymouth: The next generation RHGB 4 The Top Ten Reasons to Attend SCALE 5 Amanda 2.5.1p2 RPMS are available for Fedora Core 6 6 Security Week in Review 2007-01-21 7 Fedora Weekly Reports 2007-01-22 8 Fedora Core 5 and 6 Updates 9 Contributing to Fedora Weekly News 10 Editor's Blog The latest issue can always be found at http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Latest_Issue We need more volunteer writers who watch the Fedora community and report about what is going on. To find out how you can contribute, please visit http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Contributing_to_Fedora_Weekly_News See you in next issue of FWN! -- Thomas Chung FedoraNEWS.ORG (http://fedoranews.org) ..where you can free your knowledge for your free community! -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Congratulations and thank you
On behalf of all Red Hat associates, I want to thank all members of the worldwide open source community for committing their time, skill and intellect in creating a free and open source success - the Fedora OS. Achieving 1M users in such a short time is impressive. But to me, the real success of Fedora is the validation of the peer based, open source development model that continues to innovate and produce useful technology at the lowest cost to the user. Great work. /mjs Matthew Szulik Chairman and CEO Red Hat -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Announcing Fedora 7 Test 1 (6.90)
Just a quick blurb. Fedora 7 Test 1 has been released today. For this particular release, we only did a Desktop spin of the package collection. We are still fine tuning targetted spins of the collection as part of the merger of Core and Extras. We also produced a LiveCD that has the ability to install to your harddrive, should you wish. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/7 has the gory details of our work on the 7th release of Fedora. Downloads = DVD, CD and network installation are available. Please read the Important Warnings below in this announcement for more details. http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ The recommended method of download is via BitTorrent from this site. http://fedora.redhat.com/Download/mirrors.html HTTP, FTP, and RSYNC downloads are available from Fedora Project mirrors listed above. Note that not all mirrors may be synced at this time. -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora pgpdKWSeSKCG5.pgp Description: PGP signature -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Unofficial Fedora FAQ Updated for Fedora Core 6!
Hello Fedora world! Yes, that's right! It's done! Bring out the horns, spread the news, the Unofficial Fedora FAQ is updated for Fedora Core 6! http://www.fedorafaq.org/ There are a LOT of changes in the new FAQ: * Updated yum configuration * Updated Java instructions * Uses mozplugger for PDFs instead of Acrobat Reader * Uses ntfs-3g so you can read and write to your NTFS drives * Help for 64-bit users, since I now have a 64-bit machine! And there are lots and lots of other improvements--I went over every question, in detail, to make sure that each one was good. Enjoy the updated FAQ! And as always, please do contribute: http://www.fedorafaq.org/contribute/ -Max -- http://www.insiderfaq.com/ The Insider FAQ: Linux Made Simple. -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Fedora Weekly News Issue 76
Welcome to our issue number 76 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_76 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 Announcing Fedora 7 Test 1 (6.90) 2 Congratulations and thank you 3 Smolt: Fedora Hardware Profiler 4 Fedora Package Database 0.1 5 Fedora LiveCD 7 Test 1 Preview 6 First test of Fedora 7 released 7 Fedora's metrics have ripple effect 8 Security Week in Review 2007-01-28 9 Fedora Weekly Reports 2007-01-29 10 Fedora Core 5 and 6 Updates 11 Contributing to Fedora Weekly News 12 Editor's Blog The latest issue can always be found at http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Latest_Issue We need more volunteer writers who watch the Fedora community and report about what is going on. To find out how you can contribute, please visit http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Contributing_to_Fedora_Weekly_News See you in next issue of FWN! -- Thomas Chung FedoraNEWS.ORG (http://fedoranews.org) ..where you can free your knowledge for your free community! -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Announcing FUDCon Brussels2007
Hello there, As many of you, have heard about Fedora's presence in FOSDEM2007. We are now annoncing another FUDCon in 2007 which will be held there at FOSDEM, Brussels Belgium. Location and Date * Brussels, Belgium * Feb 24-25, 2007 Attendance is free. * room H2214 - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/FOSDEM2007 (list of Fedora FOSDEM team) - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConBrussels2007 I've the pleasure to invite you and join forces to talk about your beloved OS and how to work and improve it. MaxSpevack and TomTromey are travelling from US to be among us as well. ThomasCanniot will sing to us the great work achieved by the French Community and what they are planning to do in the near future. He will also talk about the infrastructure given to local teams and how they made use of it. We have many colleagues from the Fedora Engineering Team to show you what they are doing and planning to do. The complete Fedora Schedule can be found here: - http://www.fosdem.org/2007/schedule/devroom/centosfedora We will also be at the Fedora booth and invite you to come and share your ideas and experience to us. Look forward to seeing you the other speakers later in the month! ChitleshGoorah and the Fedora FOSDEM team -- http://clunixchit.blogspot.com -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Changes to fedora-advisory-board list
When the Fedora Advisory Board mailing list was first set up, it was put together in this way: 1) Archives 100% open to all 2) Non member posting is moderated 3) Member posting is non-moderated 4) Membership is by approval. 5) People who want to lurk by not post could subscribe to fedora-advisory-board-readonly I've heard from a few people that this has been a source of confusion, and that people who otherwise want to participate on fedora-advisory-board aren't doing so, because they don't realize that we *want* them to participate. So, I've made some changes to the fedora-advisory-board list, effective this morning. Membership is now confirm via email rather than moderater approved so basically list subscription is now the same as all other Fedora lists. Still, fedora-advisory-board is the place where we like to have some of the higher-level decision making begin, but with the assumption that it will be pushed off to other lists as appropriate. This decision also has the potential to lead to increased traffic on the list. Let's keep the traffic on-topic and high in signal, versus noise. The list's job will be to police its own. *** NOTE *** I will kill off the fedora-advisory-board-readonly list on March 1. Folks who are on that list (and therefore reading this message) are encouraged to subscribe directly to fedora-advisory-board. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, Max -- Max Spevack + http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MaxSpevack + gpg key -- http://spevack.org/max.asc + fingerprint -- CD52 5E72 369B B00D 9E9A 773E 2FDB CB46 5A17 CF21 -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Announcing Desktop User Guide
Fedora Core 6 Desktop User Guide == The Fedora Project presents: The Fedora Desktop User Guide for Fedora Core 6 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/DesktopUserGuide The Desktop User Guide is here to help you accomplish specific tasks with the desktop applications. It is written for individuals who are unfamiliar with the default Fedora Desktop and who may be running their first Linux desktop. The guide's approach is simple. It explains basic principles by covering one principle at a time. The document does not assume familiarity with any Linux/UNIX-specific terminology or concepts. Functionality is also compared, where appropriate, to what the reader may know from other OSes, particularly Microsoft Windows. Users of this guide should have a standard Desktop class installation of Fedora, including a user account with the default settings. The reader does not need access to the root password. - - - Fedora Project: http://fedoraproject.org/ Fedora Documentation: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject -- John Babich Volunteer, Fedora Docs Project gpg key: 42AF1331 -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Fedora Weekly News Issue 77
Welcome to our issue number 77 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_77 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 Announcing a change in the Fedora 7 schedule 2 Fedora 7 Test 1 Release Notes 3 Changes to fedora-advisory-board list 4 The Interview of Bill Nottingham 5 Fedora Directory Server is now in Fedora Extras 6 InfoDesk Inc. Chooses Fedora Directory Server 7 Ambassadors Report - SCALE5X 8 Security Week in Review 2007-02-11 9 Fedora Weekly Reports 2007-02-12 10 Fedora Core 5 and 6 Updates 11 Contributing to Fedora Weekly News 12 Editor's Blog The latest issue can always be found at http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Latest_Issue We need more volunteer writers who watch the Fedora community and report about what is going on. To find out how you can contribute, please visit http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Contributing_to_Fedora_Weekly_News See you in next issue of FWN! -- Thomas Chung FedoraNEWS.ORG (http://fedoranews.org) ..where you can free your knowledge for your free community! -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
FudCon Videos are now available
The FudCon videos from Boston 2007 are now ready for torrent download at: http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ -Mike -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Re: FudCon Videos are now available
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Mike McGrath wrote: The FudCon videos from Boston 2007 are now ready for torrent download at: http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ Special thanks to Jonathan Steffan (daMaestro) for filming, ogg-ifying, and uploading the videos to us. We're going to look into what it will take to put videos of this size/length on YouTube, since that will get us wider distribution than even the torrents can do. --Max -- Max Spevack + http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MaxSpevack + gpg key -- http://spevack.org/max.asc + fingerprint -- CD52 5E72 369B B00D 9E9A 773E 2FDB CB46 5A17 CF21 -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Wiki is now upgraded!
The wiki is now upgraded! There's bound to be minor odds and ends to fix up over the coming days, I ask that if anyone finds something broken they email me and I'll start fixing issues one by one. -Mike -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Announcing Fedora 7 Test 2 (6.91)
Welcome to Fedora 7 Test 2 I am please to announce the second test release for Fedora 7. Downloads DVD and network installation are available. Please read the Important Warnings below in this announcement for more details. http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ The recommended method of download is via BitTorrent from this site. http://fedora.redhat.com/Download/mirrors.html HTTP, FTP, and RSYNC downloads are available from Fedora Project mirrors listed above. Note that not all mirrors may be synced at this time. ***Important Warnings about the Test Release*** Problems with mkinitrd This test release has an rpm ordering issue that seems to affect some people with regard to mkinitrd being installed correctly. If your install seems to stall at installing the kernel and never continues, please try the updates image http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/updates-f7t2.img. Refer to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Updates for more information on using updates images. Upgrading with PATA Hard Disks If you are using PATA (parallel or original style ATA) hard disks and you attempt to do a manual yum upgrade to this release, you may be unable to boot your system when finished. To avoid this problem, use the installer program (Anaconda) to upgrade your system instead of using yum. New in Fedora 7 Test 2 This test release includes significant new versions of many key components and technologies. The following sections provide a brief overview of major changes from the last release of Fedora. Merger of Core and Extras * The Fedora Core and Extras software repositories are being merged, resulting in a shared infrastructure and a single repository of packages to which everyone is invited to contribute. * Fedora 7 Test 2 is packaged initially as a Desktop/Development Workstation/Server implementation, called Prime. This spin is delivered in DVD iso format only as a trial, see https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-February/msg00993.html for the discussion on this. * Many more packages are available in the development repositories. * Three targetted spins are now under discussion: Fedora Prime, Fedora KDE, and Fedora Everything. See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureFedoraTargettedSpins for more details. Live CD * This test release includes an i386 ISO for a Desktop Live CD. This Live CD features the ability to install to a hard disk using the same graphical Anaconda installer as the non-live CD variant. Desktop * This test release features GNOME 2.17.91. * A brand new Echo icon theme is included as the default in this release. This icon theme is incomplete, but with appropriate feedback and progress, may become the default in the general release. * KDE and Xfce, among several other packages, are included in the development repositories, but not on the media. They can be installed using the appropriate software management tools. * Fast User Switching is now available via the fast-user-switch-applet. See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureFastUserSwitching for more details. Performance * System performance is generally slower in the test releases as compared to the general release since we enable several options that help with debugging. System Administration * System administration tools may be modified under the testing process. System Level Changes * Fedora 7 Test 2 features a 2.6.21rc1 based kernel. Current release information is being tracked on the kernel release notes source page. (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/Kernel) Amanda Users who upgrade from older releases need to read the amanda.conf and amanda-client.conf man pages to learn about the the new syntax for calling amandad, as well as edit the /etc/xinetd.d/amanda configuration file to follow the new syntax. Road Map And Release Schedule * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/7/ Intended Audience for Test Releases Test 1 is targeted for developers, who use it at their own risk, and contains many bleeding edge packages. Test 2 is for early adopters. Most things should work and we need to your help to find what is broken. Test 3 is for early adopters. Most things should work and we need to your help to find what is broken. Test 4 is for beta users. This is the time when we must have full community participation. Without this participation both hardware and software functionality suffers. Quality Assurance for Test Releases The Fedora Project has a process in place for ensuring the highest possible quality even in our test releases. Many bugs are identified, prioritized and fixed during the testing process. We also have a list of known bugs in this release. Refer to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/7/Test2TreeTesting for more details. Translations of Release Notes
Fedora Weekly News Issue 79
Welcome to our issue number 79 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_79 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 Announcing Fedora 7 Test 2 (6.91) 2 Reduction of Fedora releases (in Bugzilla) 3 Phoronix: Fedora 7 KVM Virtualization How-To 4 IBM DeveloperWorks: Build a Fedora Live CD 5 Linux.com: Fedora cleans its repositories, considers move to Free Software 6 LWN: Who wrote (Linux Kernel) 2.6.20 7 FOSDEM 2007 KickOff Pictures 8 Security Week in Review 2007-02-25 9 Fedora Weekly Reports 2007-02-26 10 Fedora Core 5 and 6 Updates 11 Contributing to Fedora Weekly News 12 Editor's Blog The latest issue can always be found at http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Latest_Issue We need more volunteer writers who watch the Fedora community and report about what is going on. To find out how you can contribute, please visit http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Contributing_to_Fedora_Weekly_News See you in next issue of FWN! -- Thomas Chung FedoraNEWS.ORG (http://fedoranews.org) ..where you can free your knowledge for your free community! -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Fedora Weekly News Issue 80
Welcome to our issue number 80 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_80 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 2 Million Fedora Core 6 Installs 2 Fedora Core 6 Linux Eclipses 2M User Mark 3 Talking points for Fedora 7 release 4 Fedora Infrastructure needs your help! 5 Fedora 7 and the wireless world 6 Ambassadors Report: Chemnitz LinuxTag 7 Review: Fedora 7 Test 2 8 Security Week in Review 2007-03-04 9 Fedora Weekly Reports 2007-03-05 10 Fedora Core 5 and 6 Updates 11 Contributing to Fedora Weekly News 12 Editor's Blog The latest issue can always be found at http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Latest_Issue We need more volunteer writers who watch the Fedora community and report about what is going on. To find out how you can contribute, please visit http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Contributing_to_Fedora_Weekly_News See you in next issue of FWN! -- Thomas Chung FedoraNEWS.ORG (http://fedoranews.org) ..where you can free your knowledge for your free community! -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Fedora Weekly News Issue 81
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 81 = http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue81 Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 81 for the week of March 25th through March 31st, 2007. The latest issue can always be found [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/LatestIssue here]. == Announcements and Fedora Board == === Fedora 7 Test 3 Announcement === The third of four test releases for Fedora 7 was announced by JeremyKatz in [https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2007-March/msg3.html fedora-announce-list]. Fedora 7 Test 3 is packaged initially as a Desktop/Development Workstation/Server implementation, called Prime. This spin is delivered in DVD ISO format only. This test release includes an i386 ISO for a Desktop Live CD. This Live CD features the ability to install to a hard disk using the same graphical Anaconda installer as the non-live CD variant. This test release also includes an x86_64 ISO for a Desktop Live image. Due to size, this requires a DVD. As with the i386 Live image, the ability to install to a hard disk is available. This test release features a new i386 ISO for a KDE Live CD. Note that as of this writing, this ISO is only available via bittorrent. It should be available via the mirrors in the near future. (Editor's Note: It's now available from [http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/test/6.92/ Fedora Download Site] and [http://rhold.fedoraproject.org/Download/mirrors.html Mirror Sites].) === Board Meeting: 2007-03-27 === MaxSpevack reports in [https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2007-March/msg00279.html fedora-advisory-board], the first 40 minutes of the meeting was spent talking with Donald Fischer, Red Hat's VP of Online Services. One of the things that was discussed is that Fedora 7 allows a group like Donald's all the tools necessary to put together an Experimental Desktop spin anytime they want, which can be really useful for testing and getting their ideas into people's hands in a very consumable way. JeremyKatz indicated that LiveUSB keys are close to becoming a reality. It is Jeremy's decision as to whether we can do a LiveUSB key or just plain LiveCD for the [http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/2007/ Red Hat Summit]. MaxSpevack summarized his recent conversation with ThorstenLeemhuis in which they discussed the fact that the Fedora Board is inadvertantly poaching some of the topics that are more appropriately discussed by [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Development/SteeringCommittee FESCo]. == Developments == === Presto Debut Shows Great Promise === Presto is a yum plugin that uses ''deltas'', or small changes, between software packages to increase the speed users obtain updates. AhmedKamal and Jonathan Dieter took the initiative to adopt and modify an implementation originally developed within Red Hat and targetted for Red Hat RHN web service. The yum plugin uses delta packages when available. Presto debuted on [https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-March/msg01405.html on March24th] . The Presto [https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/presto/wiki/WikiStart project] seeks testers using i386 FC6 systems. RahulSundaram [https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-March/msg01765.html reported around 74%] savings in download size for an update using this method. The plugin is planned to be packaged in Fedora, and mirrors can be encouraged to make delta packages available so that more users will test it. === Missing /dev/hdX Devices? === A query from a Fedora 7 development branch tester about why there was no longer a `/dev/hda` on his system was [https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-March/msg01455.html answered] by WillWoods with the information that rawhide is using a new libata that passes all devices (PATA/IDE and SATA subsystems) through the SCSI layer so that all disk devices are now referenced as `/dev/sdX`. === FC6 NetworkManager Gets Some Love === A discussion about why NM was being built against dbus-0.93 but is currently running with dbus-1.0.1 morphed into an investigation of why NM keeps on asking for the user's password [https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-March/msg01458.html each time the WEP key is needed]. When it was asserted that this had become even more intrusive in rawhide with prompting at each suspend/resume, Richard Hughes explained that this was a design decision for security where gnome-power-manager tells gnome-keyring to lock on suspend. After some discussion, Richard Hughes [https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-March/msg01493.html decided] to add a gconf option to make this behavior configurable. === LSB Compliance of Initscripts === Michal Marciniszyn was concerned [https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-March/msg01544.html that a recent audit] carried out by him showed that most of the shipped initscripts returned exit codes of 0 when there was no configuratin file. Jakub Jelinek
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Announcing Fedora 7 Test 4 (6.93)
The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the release of the fourth and final test release of Fedora 7! Test 4 is for beta users. This is the time when we MUST have full community participation. Without this participation both hardware and software functionality suffers. We need your help. Join us! Road Map And Release Schedule = This is the final test release before the final Fedora 7 release, which is scheduled for May 24, 2007. For further information see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/7/ How to get it: = DVD and network installation are available. We also offer three different varieties of installable Live media - see Live CD, below. http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ The recommended method of download is via BitTorrent from this site. http://fedora.redhat.com/Download/mirrors.html HTTP, FTP, and RSYNC downloads are available from Fedora Project mirrors listed above. Note that not all mirrors may be synced at this time. For those of you already running a pre-release version of Fedora 7, all you need to do to upgrade to Test 4 is update your packages. Release Notes: = Testing focus * Users of e1000 (Intel gigabit ethernet) devices should be on the lookout for device lockups, although we believe this is fixed. * The new wireless stack is working well but still needs testing. In particular, iwlwifi (Intel 3945) has been troublesome in the past but should be much better in this release. * Upgrades from Fedora Core 6 (or older) should be tested, but please be careful - this is still a test release and we can't guarantee everything will work as expected. Important Warnings about the Test Release * The 2.6.21 kernel uses new IDE drivers which use the same 'libata' subsystem as the SATA drivers. As a side-effect, IDE devices previously named /dev/hdX will now be named /dev/sdX. This may cause problems with anything that mentions devices by name instead of by filesystem label. Anaconda should be able to detect most of these problems and help you fix them. General * In previous test releases the default product was called Prime, but after feedback from Marketing and the community it has been renamed simply Fedora. * Fedora 7 Test 4's primary product is a Desktop/Development Workstation/Server distribution which closely matches the contents of previous Fedora Core releases. Live CD * This test release includes three Live images: an i386 Desktop Live CD, an x86_64 Desktop Live DVD, and an i386 KDE Live CD. These Live CDs can be installed to disk using the graphical Anaconda installer. Desktop * This test release features GNOME 2.18. * The new Echo icon theme is no longer the default, although it is still available from the repositories. * KDE and Xfce, among several other packages, are included in the development repositories, but not on the media. They can be installed using the appropriate software management tools. * Fast User Switching is now available via the fast-user-switch-applet. See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureFastUserSwitching for more details. * The internet messaging program called Gaim is now known as Pidgin. See http://pidgin.im/ for more info. Performance * System performance is generally slower in the test releases as compared to the general release since we enable several options that help with debugging. * Yum / rpm performance should be better in this release than previous Fedora 7 test releases. System Level Changes * Amanda Users who upgrade from older releases need to read the amanda.conf and amanda-client.conf man pages to learn about the the new syntax for calling amandad, as well as edit the /etc/xinetd.d/amanda configuration file to follow the new syntax. * This release includes a kernel based on 2.6.21-rc7. Current release information is tracked on the kernel release notes page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/Kernel Bug reporting and tracking: == The Release Engineering and QA teams keep track of bugs that are considered release blockers. You can see that list here: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/showdependencytree.cgi?id=FC7Blocker In addition, a list of non-blocker bugs that should be fixed for Fedora 7 if possible can be found here: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/showdependencytree.cgi?id=FC7Target Please check these lists before reporting new bugs! Bugs for this release should be reported against the Fedora Core product, version 'devel'. You can use this convenient link to report bugs: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora%
Fedora Weekly News Issue 85
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 85 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 85[1] for the week of April 22nd through April 28th, 2007. The latest issue can always be found here[2] and RSS Feed can be found here[3]. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue85 [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/LatestIssue [3] http://feeds.feedburner.com/fwn 1. Fedora Weekly News Issue 85 1. Announcements 1. Announcing Fedora 7 Test 4 (6.93) 2. Making the Merge Happen 2. Planet Fedora 1. Red Hat Magazine OLPC Articles 2. Red Hat Summit Compilation 3. 0-Day Fedora Kernels 4. Fedora Article in LWN 3. Marketing 1. Red Hat's JBoss to Adopt Fedora Model 4. Developments Mon, April 23 - Sat, April 28 2007 1. Root Filesystem Encryption Patch 2. RPM Packaging Feedback Sought and Received 3. Wow, Presto Rocks! 4. Pidgin Epoch Removed, Rawhide Updates Need Manual Correction 5. How To Get Your Packages Sponsored And Reviewed 6. Fedora7-Test4 Announced 7. Repowars II: Add Some EPEL repotag Duct Tape? 8. Standard Naming Scheme For KDE Components 9. kdebase And lftp Cause Rawhide Update Problem 10. The Merge Is Upon Us! 5. Maintainers 1. libperl perl in Fedora 7 2. Guidelines Update 3. Fedora 7 Development Freeze 4. The Name For Fedora 7? 6. Documentation 1. Release Notes Freeze 2. Media Handling in Pirut 3. Knowledge Base? 7. Translation 1. Release Note POT/PO Files 8. Infrastructure 1. Operating Procedures 2. Sponsored vs Volunteers 9. Artwork 1. The Open Pallete 2. Echo SVG Fixed 3. Linuxtag Germany 10. Security Week 1. Firefox 1.5 Support Extended 11. Security Advisories 1. Fedora Core 6 Security Advisories 2. Fedora Core 5 Security Advisories 12. Events and Meetings 1. Release Engineering Meeting: 2007-04-23 2. Packaging Committee Meeting: 2007-04-24 3. Ambassadors Meeting: 2007-04-26 4. French Ambassadors Meeting: 2007-04-29 5. Event Report: CarolinaCon 2007 - North Carolina, USA 6. Event Report: FLISOL 2007 - Santiago, Chile 7. Event Report: FLISOL 2007 - Salvador, Bahia, Brazil 13. Errata 1. Erratum #1 2. Erratum #2 14. Feedback == Announcements == In this section, we cover announcements from various projects. === Announcing Fedora 7 Test 4 (6.93) === The Fedora Project is pleased to announce[1] the release of the fourth and final test release of Fedora 7! Test 4 is for beta users. This is the time when we MUST have full community participation. Without this participation both hardware and software functionality suffers. We need your help. Join us! This is the final test release before the Fedora 7 release, which is scheduled for May 24, 2007. For further information see [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/7]. [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2007-April/msg6.html === Making the Merge Happen === JesseKeating announces in fedora-devel-list[1], Test4 is out, Final looms, must have merge! http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/CoreExtrasMerge is the working page for the merge status. I would like to get merged asap and shake out the problems and get some builds done before the final freeze. Please provide input! [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-April/msg01250.html == Planet Fedora == In this secton, we cover a highlight of Planet Fedora - an aggregation of blogs from world wide Fedora contributors. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Planet === Red Hat Magazine OLPC Articles === JohnPalmieri points out in hig blog[1], For the general audience who wish to find out more about the OLPC project and the people working on it (or at least the ones in Cambridge, MA), part 2 of the OLPC video blog[2] is now online. For developers, part 2 of my Porting a PyGTK game to Sugar[3] series is also up. The first lesson focused on the game itself. This lesson shows the initial port. [1] http://www.j5live.com/?p=361 [2] http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/04/25/inside-one-laptop-per-child-episode-02/ [3] http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/04/26/building-the-xo-porting-a-pygtk-game-to-sugar-part-two/ === Red Hat Summit Compilation === JefSpaleta points out in his blog[1], So I finally got around to poking at my digital music library and playing with rhythmbox again after almost a year after my move. I noticed the magnatune plugin and started poking at the available content in the
Fedora Weekly News Issue 86
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 86 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 86[1] for the week of April 29th through May 5th, 2007. The latest issue can always be found here[2] and RSS Feed can be found here[3]. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue86 [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/LatestIssue [3] http://feeds.feedburner.com/fwn 1. Fedora Weekly News Issue 86 1. Announcements 1. Fedora Core 5 End of Life 2. CD Bootloader Change - Test Help Needed 3. Status of the merge 4. Rawhide 20070502 Live Images 5. Fedora 7 Test 4 ISOs for IA64 Available 6. Announcing New Fedora-php-devel-list 2. Planet Fedora 1. Come together Right now! 2. Merge day and some stats 3. Job Openings for OLPC 4. GIMP rain animation tutorial 5. Spin your own Fedora Security Live USB key 6. Two steps forward, no steps back 3. Marketing 1. Fedora merges Core and Extra repositories 2. Fedora: Champions of Community 4. Developments 1. David Woodhouse Likes Monkeys 2. OCaml Packaging Guidelines, Something A Bit More Meaty 3. Merge Surges Ahead 4. Aggressive Incorporation Of Latest KDE4 Planned 5. Zope Packaging For Fedora 7 6. Inclusion Of Experimental Non-Enabled Nouveau Driver 7. Where Did the CD ISOs Go? 8. KDE's Place In The Open Platform Known As Fedora Acknowleged 9. When Two Broadcom Drivers Go To War 10. Falling Blocks, Wink Wink 5. Documentation 1. Fedora Documentation Steering Committee Meeting 2. Translations for Release Notes Must Be Complete by 10 May 3. Fedora Guides 4. New Docs Tasks Page 5. Documentation Style 6. DTDs Available Publicly 7. Fedora-dsco-list Set For Retirement 6. Translation 1. Deadline Extension 7. Infrastructure 1. More on Email Addresses 8. Security Week 1. Do We Really Need a Security Industry? 9. Security Advisories 1. Fedora Core 6 Security Advisories 2. Fedora Core 5 Security Advisories 10. Events and Meetings 1. Fedora Board Meeting 2007-05-01 2. Fedora Engineering Steering Committee Meeting 2007-05-03 3. Fedora Engineering Steering Committee Meeting 2007-04-26 4. Fedora Packaging Committee Meeting 2007-05-01 5. Fedora Release Engineering Meeting 2007-04-30 6. Fedora Documentation Steering Committee Meeting 2007-05-06 7. Fedora Documentation Steering Committee Meeting 2007-04-29 8. Event Report: Feel IT - Bamberg, Germany 9. Event Report: FLISOL 2007 - Argentina 10. Event Report: FLISOL 2007 - Caracas, Venezuela 11. Event Photos: FLISOL 2007 - Santiago, Chile 11. Feedback == Announcements == In this section, we cover announcements from various projects. === Fedora Core 5 End of Life === MaxSpevack announces in fedora-announce-list[1], Several months ago, the Fedora Board (in consultation with Red Hat Engineering) decided to increase the length of time that Fedora releases are supported, in terms of updates. This decision was retroactively applied to Fedora Core 5, allowing it to remain a fully maintained release for several months longer than it would have under our old policy. Fedora Core 5 will reach its End of Life[2] for updates on Friday June 29th, 2007. [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2007-May/msg0.html [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LifeCycle === CD Bootloader Change - Test Help Needed === WillWoods announces in fedora-test-list[1], So, Fedora 7's CD/DVD boot menu needs a small tweak to work in qemu. We want to make sure this change is safe and stable, so we need your help. Please download the (8MB) test image from here[2]. Burn it to CD and boot it in as many (i386/x86_64) machines as you can. We want to know if the graphical menu looks right, and if the timer counts down from 60. Report results here[3]. If the boot menu looks normal on all the machines we try it on, we'll make this change for F7 final. [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2007-May/msg00221.html [2] http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/syslinux-test-16bpp-boot.iso [3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JeremyKatz/IsolinuxTest === Status of the merge === JesseKeating announces in fedora-maintainers[1], Merge is going well now. A bunch of hiccups early on as we moved our test scripts into acting with real bits and databases and such, but now that that's over... For those interested, here are some reference items: * The main
Seth Vidal and Toshio Kuratomi joining Red Hat
Fedorans, Another day, another email to fedora-announce-list from me. As those of you who read this list may remember, back when we announced the hiring of Mike McGrath as the Fedora Infrastructure Leader, the part of that announcement that made me most happy was that we were able to hire folks who were already well-established Fedora contributors to continue their Fedora work full time, and earn a Red Hat paycheck doing it. Well, I'm equally happy to announce today that both Seth Vidal and Toshio Kuratomi have accepted jobs at Red Hat. Now I'm make them both blush a little bit by talking a bit about their contributions to Fedora. Seth has been a Fedora contributor since the beginning. He is a member of the Fedora Project Board. When I started my job with the Fedora Project 15 months ago, Seth was one of the guys who I was encouraged to talk to frequently, and pay attention to what he says. Seth has also been known to write some code from time to time. He leads the development of yum, and will continue to do some from within Red Hat. He is very active in the Fedora Infrastructure project. He has contributed significantly to the code that makes the Fedora build system work. I don't think there is any question that Seth is one of the true leaders within Fedora. People seem to think he works for Red Hat already, and so we're glad to eliminate that point of confusion also. :-) Toshio is a rock-star programmer. Similar to Seth, he's been a Fedora contributor for several years. He's been a member of the Fedora Extras Steering Committee. He's worked closely with the Fedora Infrastrucutre team on projects like the package database, and a lot of the work that Fedora is doing with TurboGears. Toshio has worked on the Fedora Account System, and is basically the lead developer for the Fedora Infrastructure team. He cranks out really good code, and it's a great boon for Red Hat to have him full time. As a signing bonus, I have set aside the LAST PAIR of Fedora flip flops that exists for the next time I see him. Congrats to both Seth and Toshio. Back to work, now! :-) -- Max Spevack + http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MaxSpevack + gpg key -- http://spevack.org/max.asc + fingerprint -- CD52 5E72 369B B00D 9E9A 773E 2FDB CB46 5A17 CF21 -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Fedora Weekly News Issue 87
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 87 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 87[1] for the week of May 6th through May 12th, 2007. The latest issue can always be found here[2] and RSS Feed can be found here[3]. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue87 [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/LatestIssue [3] http://feeds.feedburner.com/fwn 1. Fedora Weekly News Issue 87 1. Announcements 1. Fedora 7 -- what, when, and why 2. Fedora 7 Deep Freeze/GA release schedule change 3. Post-merge howto and FAQ 2. Planet Fedora 1. Red Hat Summit - Update from the Left Coast 2. Red Hat Summit - Fedora Unity, Custom Spins of Fedora 3. Red Hat Summit - ATI and Open Source 4. Java One and OpenJDK 5. Red Hat Summer Intern: Python Web Programming 3. Marketing 1. Liberations fonts from Red Hat 2. Distrowatch on Fedora Repo Merge 4. Developments 1. Rawhide Merge Status 2. AlphaCore Project Gets Help Patching The Kernel Spec File 3. Zope. A Tale Of Two Threads 4. Avoid Inane Regulatory Licensing Shakedowns 5. Missed Contributor Returns 6. Fedora Standards For Contents Of /etc/pki 7. Sun's GPL'ed Java To Arrive Soon In Fedora 8. DeltaRPM, YUMPresto plans 9. Wireless Test Request for ipw3945 etc Users 10. Why Does Nautilus Create Folders in ~ By Default ? 5. Translation 1. Completion Summary 6. Infrastructure 1. Cacti 2. System Flux 7. Security Advisories 1. Fedora Core 6 Security Advisories 2. Fedora Core 5 Security Advisories 8. Events and Meetings 1. Fedora Packaging Committee Meeting 2007-05-08 2. Fedora Release Engineering Meeting 2007-05-07 3. Event Report: 2007 Upstate Hamfest - South Carolina, USA 4. Event Report: LinuxTag at Fachhochschule - Salzburg, Austria 9. Editor's Note: Red Hat Summmit 2007 10. Feedback == Announcements == In this section, we cover announcements from various projects. === Fedora 7 -- what, when, and why === MaxSpevack announces in fedora-announce-list[1], The next version of Fedora will be released on May 24th. It will be called Fedora 7 -- not Fedora Core 7. It's the most ambitious release of Fedora that we've undertaken, and I hope that when we look back at Fedora 7 one or two years down the road, the decisions that we made for this release will have proven to be as impactful as anything we've done in the Fedora space since the start of the Fedora Project. In one sentence: Fedora 7 has been about improving the manner in which all future Fedora releases will be made. [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2007-May/msg2.html === Fedora 7 Deep Freeze/GA release schedule change === JoshBoyer announces in fedora-maintainers[1], The bulk of the Core/Extras merge has now been finished, and the Release Engineering team has been working hard to get things back in shape for the final F7 release. However, due to the massive nature of this undertaking, we are not coming back online as fast as we had hoped. While this slip is unfortunate, it is also in the best interest for the quality of the release. Please bear with us as we strive to make this the best release of Fedora to date! [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2007-May/msg00236.html === Post-merge howto and FAQ === JoshBoyer announces in fedora-maintainers[1], Due to popular demand, I sat down and wrote up a brief howto for handling packages in the merged world. Given that I'm almost guaranteed to have not answered all the questions, it's living under the wiki[2] for the moment. Hopefully it will give the package maintainers a high level overview of what to do and how to do it. Feel free to ask questions and I (or others) will try to address them. [1]https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2007-May/msg00220.html [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JoshBoyer/MergeHOWTO == Planet Fedora == In this section, we cover a highlight of Planet Fedora - an aggregation of blogs from world wide Fedora contributors. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Planet === Red Hat Summit - Update from the Left Coast === PaulFrields points out in his blog[1], In the afternoon a bunch of Fedora folks (including your humble reporter) gathered in a posh executive conference room, complete with snazzy lighting and decor, for a video interview conducted by Kim Jokisch and mainly shot by Red Hat filmmaker extraordinaire Tim Kiernan[2]. Tim pops up again later in this post. We talked about all the cool things going on in Fedora, including but not limited to the new release. We also talked about what is so fricking cool about working on
Fedora Weekly News Issue 88
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 88 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 88[1] for the week of May 13th through May 19th, 2007. The latest issue can always be found here[2] and RSS Feed can be found here[3]. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue88 [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/LatestIssue [3] http://feeds.feedburner.com/fwn 1. Fedora Weekly News Issue 88 1. Announcements 1. Deep Freeze coming for Fedora 7 2. Announcing fedora-cs-list for Czech and Slovak Fedora users 3. Fedora Rawhide Live Images (20070517) 2. Planet Fedora 1. Summary from the Red Hat Summit 2. F7 Firstboot and EULA 3. 'Play Ogg': FSF launches free audio format campaign 3. Marketing 1. OLPC on CBS 60 Minutes 4. Developments 1. New Suspend Quirks Functionality of F7 Explained 2. XChat Package Maintenance: First Post-Merge Co-Maintenance? 3. PowerTOP Release Opens Up New Directions In Power Saving 4. Massive size increase in some packages 5. Rawhide Report 17 May 2007:Liberated Fonts, Corrupt Metadata 6. Making Beagle Optional 7. Legality of Fedora In Some Jurisdictions Contd. 8. Making Koji A Complete rpmfind Replacement 5. Maintainers 1. Why Not Build For EPEL Too? 2. Fedora 7 Deep Freeze 3. Help Wanted: Package Co-maintainers 4. Improving Fedora Package Documentation 6. Documentation 1. Fedora Documentation Steering Committee Meeting 2. Welcome Wizard 3. Hardware Solutions Knowledge Base 7. Infrastructure 1. Fedora Mirror System 2. Koji 3. Proxy Server 8. Artwork 1. Ambassador Program Banner 2. Shutdown and Logout Icons 9. Security Week 1. Samba 10. Security Advisories 1. Fedora Core 6 Security Advisories 2. Fedora Core 5 Security Advisories 11. Events and Meetings 1. Fedora Release Engineering Meeting 2007-05-14 2. Fedora French Ambassadors Meeting 2007-05-13 3. Fedora Engineering Steering Committee 2007-05-10 12. Feedback == Announcements == In this section, we cover announcements from various projects. === Deep Freeze coming for Fedora 7 === JesseKeating announces in fedora-maintainers[1], We're planning on entering Deep Freeze this Thursday. From that point on we'll only be accepting build tag requests for builds that are fixing release blockers. See Fedora Release Criteria[2] for current release criteria. [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2007-May/msg00351.html [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/ReleaseCriteria === Announcing fedora-cs-list for Czech and Slovak Fedora users === MarekMahut announces in fedora-ambassadors-list[1], Let me introduce you our new mailing list [2] for Czech and Slovak Fedora users. If you are speaking one of those languages, feel free to join. [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-ambassadors-list/2007-May/msg00104.html [2] http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-cs-list === Fedora Rawhide Live Images (20070517) === JeremyKatz announces in fedora-test-list[1], First set of post-merge rawhide live images. These are based off of yesterday's rawhide (packages tagged f7-final in koji). You can get the torrent file from Fedora Project Torrent[2]. Available images are i386, x86_64, i386 KDE and also an x86_64 KDE image. Note that the x86_64 images require DVD media, the i386 images will fit on 700 meg CD media. Please file any issues against product Fedora Core, version devel and against the relevant component or LiveCD if you're unsure. [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2007-May/msg00558.html [2] http://torrent.fedoraproject.org. == Planet Fedora == In this section, we cover a highlight of Planet Fedora - an aggregation of blogs from world wide Fedora contributors. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Planet === Summary from the Red Hat Summit === ChristopherBlizzard points out in his blog[1], We announced a pile of things at the Red Hat Summit[2]. Lots of confusing articles have been written. Lots of press releases have been sent out filled with warnings about forward looking statements. Maybe you just want the run down on all the things that happened. This is your simple cheat sheet. Here's the list:.. [1] http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=289 [2] http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/2007/news/ === F7 Firstboot and EULA === MaxSpevack points out in his blog[1], In an attempt to have some transparency and no surprises, I've sent an email[2] to Fedora Advisory Board that details some of the changes we've made to firstboot and the EULA in Fedora 7. My personal opinion is
Fedora Project Web gets a face lift
The Fedora Project website has gotten a face lift: http://fedoraproject.org/ Prior to today that site went straight to the wiki, which is largely developer content with good (but somewhat hard to find) docs. Now we're expanding on fedoraproject.org and adding some more user-centric content like that found at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ The websites team has been hard at work at this for a while and we're all excited to release it today. Help get the word out and digg: http://digg.com/linux_unix/Fedora_Project_gets_a_web_face_lift -Mike -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Fedora Weekly News Issue 89
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 89 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 89[1] for the week of May 20th through May 26th, 2007. The latest issue can always be found here[2] and RSS Feed can be found here[3]. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue89 [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/LatestIssue [3] http://feeds.feedburner.com/fwn 1. Fedora Weekly News Issue 89 1. Announcements 1. Fedora Project Web gets a face lift 2. Fedora 7 RC2 Fedora spin i386 available 2. Planet Fedora 1. Spank that webpage, it's been born again 2. We're golden 3. Marketing 1. Fedora 7 at Respins.org 2. Release Announcement Talking Points 4. Developments 1. Could A Truly Minimal Install Be Added in F7 Or F8? 2. Mdraid and Hidden Partition Area Upgrade Blocker Solved 3. Status Of Support for IWP3945abg Wireless In Fedora 7 4. Fedora7RC2 Torrent 5. Upgrade FC6 To F7t4 Fails On LVM Fstab Naming 6. Guidelines For Huge SPEC Changelogs 7. IPv6 Explicitly Disabled. 8. The Future Of the Bootloader 9. Wireshark Included On F7 Media 10. KDE4 For Fedora8 Draft Document Discussion 5. Maintainers 1. No More New Packages For Fedora 7 6. Documentation 1. Future of The Software Management Guide 2. Language Codes 3. Live CD Guide 7. Infrastructure 1. Image Standard 2. Pushing Updates 3. Static Content 8. Artwork 1. Fedora 7 CD/DVD Labels And Covers 9. Security Week 1. A Mighty Number Falls 2. 28% of software is unpatched 10. Security Advisories and Package Updates 1. Fedora Core 6 Security Advisories and Package Updates 2. Fedora Core 5 Security Advisories and Package Updates 11. Events and Meetings 1. Fedora Ambassadors Meeting Minutes 2007-05-24 2. Fedora Documentation Steering Committee 2007-05-27 3. Fedora Engineering Steering Committee Meeting 2007-05-17 4. Fedora Engineering Steering Committee Meeting 2007-05-24 5. Fedora Packaging Committee Meeting 2007-05-23 6. Fedora Release Engineering Meeting 2007-05-21 12. Feedback == Announcements == In this section, we cover announcements from various projects. === Fedora Project Web gets a face lift === MikeMcGrath announces in fedora-announce-list[1], The Fedora Project website has gotten a face lift: http://fedoraproject.org/ Prior to today that site went straight to the wiki, which is largely developer content with good (but somewhat hard to find) docs. Now we're expanding on fedoraproject.org and adding some more user-centric content like that found at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ The websites team has been hard at work at this for a while and we're all excited to release it today. Help get the word out and digg[2]. [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2007-May/msg6.html [2] http://digg.com/linux_unix/Fedora_Project_gets_a_web_face_lift === Fedora 7 RC2 Fedora spin i386 available === JesseKeating announces in fedora-devel-list[1], I've uploaded the i386 DVD and rescue image for the Fedora spin of Fedora 7 RC2. You can find it at http://torrent.fedoraproject.org The x86_64 iso set is still uploading, to be followed by the PPC iso set. I'll reply to this once they are ready for torrenting. Happy testing! [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-May/msg01628.html == Planet Fedora == In this section, we cover a highlight of Planet Fedora - an aggregation of blogs from world wide Fedora contributors. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Planet === Spank that webpage, it's been born again === KarstenWade points out in his blog[1], Breathing new life into this URL: http://fedoraproject.org In anticipation of heavy server loads during the upcoming Fedora 7 release, we decided to post a series of lightweight, static HTML pages as the front of fedoraproject.org. Those pages quietly went live today. [1] http://iquaid.livejournal.com/18843.html === We're golden === PaulFrields points out in his blog[1], From the IRC buffer of #fedora-devel, looks like Fedora 7 will be in General Availability on 31 May. To all those who repeatedly tested and fed back bugs and information, a hearty and heartfelt thank you. I'm sure the actual release engineering folks will have more to say about this shortly; stay tuned. [1] http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=785 == Marketing == In this section, we cover Fedora Marketing Project. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing === Fedora 7 at Respins.org === KarlieRobinson reports in fedora-marketing-list[1], On May 12, I went to
a few words about Fedora 7
My fellow Fedorans, In a few hours (about 10:00 AM EDT/2:00 PM GMT), Fedora 7 will go live to the world. It's the middle of the night in the main Red Hat offices in Raleigh and Westford, but I amm in Berlin this week for LinuxTag, which is the largest Linux conference in Europe (10,000 visitors over 4 days). We have a great looking Fedora booth, and we are holding a FUDCon (Fedora Users and Developers Conference) here today during which we have a conference hall that probably seats 150 people all to ourselves. We are giving speeches and talks about Fedora all day long, both in German and in English. I've already had several people come by asking when Alan Cox will be arriving. Answer: Real Soon Now. We have several activities ongoing at the Fedora booth, including an install-fest, and a troubleshooting contest with prizes that include free books and free Red Hat training classes. We have all variety of Fedora swag as well. It's quite an impressive setup here at LinuxTag, and worth noting that the entire organizational force behind the event was driven by our Fedora Ambassador community of volunteers. This email is my personal Fedora 7 release announcement, and also touches on some of the topics that I will mention during my speech at FUDCon today. Before I talk about Fedora 7, it's useful to look at recent history. One of the Fedora Project's mottos is the rapid progress of free and open source software. With Fedora Core 5 in March of 2006, Fedora Core 6 in October of 2006, and Fedora 7 today, that's about 7 months per release. And with several million Fedora Core 6 installs, everyone who works on Fedora should feel very proud that not only is the software being released often, but it's also high quality, and in high use around the world. Fedora 7 represents the culmination of several goals that Fedora has spent the last few releases (spanning the course of at least 2 years) working to achieve. I've written previously on this list about the aspects of Fedora 7 that I think are the most important (http://tinyurl.com/yuc7ax). From my perspective, it is the fundamental infrastructure changes that Fedora 7 represents that are the biggest achievement. The entire Fedora toolchain has been freed. Every step in the distribution-building process is completely open. Code checked into an external CVS. Packages built on a completely external build system. Distros and LiveCDs built on completely open compose tools. All of this functionality is available via the command line or via a graphical tool that is build on the APIs that we provide. For folks who hack on free software, I hope that this is a compelling development environment in which to work. For folks who are end users of free software, we believe that the Fedora toolchain allows people to remix Fedora, and customize it in ways that will provide a much wider variety of Fedora-based spins than we could ever offer if Fedora Release Engineering had to build them all directly. There is plenty more, but this email isn't meant to be an exhaustive list of Fedora 7 release features. Additionally, I'd like to mention a few other new things that Fedora has completed in time for Fedora 7: Our home page, fedoraproject.org has a new look. We've added a series of static HTML pages that sit on top of our wiki, and I think it makes the initial experience of fedoraproject.org much simpler, and much more useful. The organized chaos of the wiki is all still just one click away, but we didn't want first-time visitors to fp.o overwhelmed with the wiki from the first instant. Our documentation pages have also been given some new organization, living at docs.fedoraproject.org. The lifespan of a Fedora release has been increased to two releases plus one month. This means that Fedora Core 6 will continue to be updated until one month after Fedora 8 is released, and Fedora 7 will be updated until one month after Fedora 9 is released. We've put into production new mirror management software. The EPEL project, which aims to make packages from the Fedora repository available for Enterprise Linux customers, has been making tremendous progress. The Fedora News team, which already had been doing a fantastic job, has expanded the coverage that they provide the Fedora Project, and their Fedora Weekly News reports offer people a fantastic summary of all the interesting things that are happening in the Fedora Project. And more. Finally, a few words of thanks. I debated for a while listing specific names in this email, but the number of people who deserve credit for Fedora 7 and all of the work that has happened around Fedora 7 cannot be enumerated without accidentally forgetting someone. So instead I will simply say that every item discussed in this email has happened as a result of tremendous work by Fedora contributors both inside and outside of Red Hat. And it
Fedora Board elections -- voting open
Voting is now open for the Fedora Board elections. As a reminder, we are electing 3 of the 9 seats during this election. The candidates are (in alphabetical order): Christopher Aillon Dennis Gilmore Bob Jensen Brian Pepple Jef Spaleta Rahul Sundaram More information about the candidates is available at: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Elections/Nominations Voting will end at Jul 8 23:59:59 UTC Please go to https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/ Anyone who has signed the Fedora CLA (ie: is in cla_done in the Fedora Account System) is eligible to vote. Thanks to Toshio Kuratomi for his work on the voting software. --Max -- Max Spevack + http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MaxSpevack + gpg key -- http://spevack.org/max.asc + fingerprint -- CD52 5E72 369B B00D 9E9A 773E 2FDB CB46 5A17 CF21 -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Fedora Weekly News Issue 94
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 94 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 94[1] for the week of June 24th through June 30th 2007. The latest issue can always be found here[2] and RSS Feed can be found here[3]. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue94 [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/LatestIssue [3] http://fedoranews.org/cms/FWN/feed 1. Announcements 2. Fedora Board elections - Voting Open 1. Fedora 8's FUDCon Cancelled 3. Planet Fedora 1. Fedora Translation Project 2. Max Talks to the Children 2.0 3. Smolt passes the 50k mark 4. Creating Re-Spins with Revisor 4. Developments 1. Fedora Features Process 2. Changing the Default Syslog Package 5. Maintainers 1. A Mass Rebuild For Fedora 8 2. Package Name Change 6. Documentation 1. Status Update 7. Translation 1. More Bugzilla 2. Wiki Localization 8. Infrastructure 1. New Test Server 2. Streamlining Account Signups 9. Artwork 1. Fedora 8 Deadlines 2. Community Artwork 3. Nodoka Metacity Theme 4. Theme Proposals 10. Security Week 1. Red Hat Linux Gets Top Government Security Rating 2. Third-Party Severity Ratings 3. Fedora Security Response Team 11. Advisories and Updates 1. Fedora 7 Security Advisories 2. Fedora Core 6 Security Advisories 12. Events and Meetings 1. Fedora Board Meeting Minutes 2007-06-26 2. Fedora Documentation Steering Committee 2007-MM-DD 3. Fedora Engineering Steering Committee Meeting 2007-06-28 4. Fedora Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Meeting 2007-06-27 5. Fedora Infrastructure Meeting (Log) 2007-06-28 6. Fedora Packaging Committee Meeting 2007-06-26 7. Fedora Release Engineering Meeting 2007-06-25 8. Fedora Translation Project Meeting 2007-06-26 13. Feedback == Announcements == In this section, we cover announcements from various projects. Contributing Writer: ThomasChung == Fedora Board elections - Voting Open == MaxSpevack announces in fedora-announce-list[1], Voting is now open for the Fedora Board elections. As a reminder, we are electing 3 of the 9 seats during this election. Voting will end at Jul 8 23:59:59 UTC Please go to [2]. [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2007-June/msg9.html [2] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/ === Fedora 8's FUDCon Cancelled === MaxSpevack announces in fedora-devel-announce[1], Yesterday the Fedora Board made the decision not to hold an in-person FUDCon for F8. Like you, I'm a disappointed, but I'm also excited for us to try out an organized, weekend-long virtual hackfest (more below). The feature list for Fedora 8 is coming together very well, and we're planning over the next few weeks how we can do a virtual hackfest for F8. The idea is to pick some days, probably the same weekend (4, 5 August), and organize energy around people having an IRC-based hackfest that weekend. [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2007-June/msg00011.html == Planet Fedora == In this section, we cover a highlight of Planet Fedora - an aggregation of blogs from world wide Fedora contributors. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Planet Contributing Writers: ThomasChung === Fedora Translation Project === FabianAffolter points out in his blog[1], The Fedora Translation Project has now a logo. If you want to help translate applications, documentation, and websites check out this web page for futher information. We are still looking for fellows for ther german team (for the other teams of course, too). [1] http://fabaff.blogspot.com/2007/06/fedora-translation-project.html [2] http://translate.fedoraproject.org/ === Max Talks to the Children 2.0 === MaxSpevack points out in his blog[1] I spent 45 minutes the other day at Shodor Education Foundation[2]. They were having a career day, and they invited 4 people from companies in the Raleigh/Durham area to talk to a group of kids. I would say there were about 30 kids total, ranging from probably 7th grade through early college-age, with most of them in the 8th-11th grade group. [1] http://spevack.livejournal.com/22033.html [2] http://www.shodor.org/ === Smolt passes the 50k mark === RolandWolters points out in his blog[1], Smolt[2], Fedora's tool of choice to collect information about uses hardware, showed once again that it has a healthy growth: in the night from Thursday to Friday last week the 50k-users line was crossed. [1] http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2007/06/26/smolt-passes-the-50k-mark-and-enters-opensuse-support/ [2] http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/ === Creating Re-Spins with Revisor === JeroenVanMeeuwen points out in his blog[1] Creating re-spins has never been this easy. Of course we had pungi and livecd-tools to which we had added this GUI thing in Revisor[2], but since I've re-enabled the CLI mode in Revisor,
Reminder -- Vote in the Fedora Board election
I would like to remind everyone to vote in the Fedora Board elections, which are currently ongoing. If you are getting this message multiple times, I'm sorry. It's being sent to various lists. The Fedora Board's membership changes on a rotating basis. This election is for 3 of the 9 Fedora Board seats. The Fedora Board is the Fedora Project's executive committee and is ultimately accountable for everything that happens within Fedora, and delegates responsibillity to various sub-projects accordingly. Information about the candidates and voting is available here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Elections Voting will end at 11:59 PM UTC on Sunday July 8th. Anyone who has signed the Fedora CLA is eligible to vote. Thank you, Max -- Max Spevack + http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MaxSpevack + gpg key -- http://spevack.org/max.asc + fingerprint -- CD52 5E72 369B B00D 9E9A 773E 2FDB CB46 5A17 CF21 -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Kadischi reached End Of Life
Hello there, A few days ago, I mentioned[1] there is no one behind kadischi's development team and it will be EOL'ed this saturday. So today is Saturday 07 July 2007 (in a few minutes it will be 08 July 2007), kadischi's bug review[2] was marked and closed as NOTABUG, while the remaining 4 open bugs under kadischi's name : # A first experience ( #222568 ) # Kadischi does not build on VMware hosted OS ( #216151 ) # Kadischi may raise an exception when attempting to copy device files. ( #211692 ) # Processed: Kadischi build fails if dietlibc is installed ( #167220 ) were closed as WONTFIX. Therefore, I'm announcing the official EOF of Kadischi. It is sad, but it is _not_ the end of creation of custom spins at the Fedora Project since Jeroen van Meeuwen and his friends are actively maintaining revisor[3]. If you were a kadischi user in the past, you will probably see revisor as a better alternative. # I'll like to thank everyone who participated in the kadischi project: whether by contributing codes # or by testing, translations, documentation,... We will still be looking forward to see your contributions at the new revisor project. The Fedora Livecd Mailing list[4] is still active and you can still asked your livecd related questions there. However I don't know what will be the state of the #fedora-livecd irc channel on freenode. The average number of people who joined this channel daily is 5 and there's pretty much no discussions. Well, #fedora-devel is always crowded. cheers, Chitlesh [1] http://clunixchit.blogspot.com/2007/07/kadischis-state.html#links [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=236162 [3] http://revisor.fedoraunity.org/ [4] http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list -- http://clunixchit.blogspot.com -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Fedora Weekly News Issue 95
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 95 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 95[1] for the week of July 1st through July 7th 2007. The latest issue can always be found here[2] and RSS Feed can be found here[3]. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue95 [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/LatestIssue [3] http://fedoranews.org/cms/FWN/feed 1. Announcements 1. New Infrastructure Ticketing System 2. Reminder -- Vote in the Fedora Board election 3. Fedora Core 5 Retirement (EOL) 2. Planet Fedora 1. Red Hat High 2. Fedora Free Media Program 3. The Tone of Fedora 3. Marketing 1. Fedora 7 Review - Technetra 2. Fedora 7 Review - Shift Backspace 3. Fedora 7 Review - PC Advisor 4. Developments 1. Like This Content? 5. Documentation 1. Fedora Documentation Project Steering Committee Elections 2. Mailing List Owners 3. Translation Quickstart Guide 4. Samba Plus LDAP Tutorial 6. Translation 1. Translations, Damned Lies and Transifex 2. Fedora Translation Project Mailing List 7. Infrastructure 1. fedorapeople.org 2. Using Trac for Task Requests and Management 3. Infra Chooses Git for Self 8. Artwork 1. Sound Theme? 2. Round 1 Deadline Approaching 3. Theme Proposals 4. Stickers 9. Security Week 1. Why an ATM PIN Has Four Digits 2. Vulnerability for sale 10. Daily Package 1. Nedit - Programmer's notepad editor 2. Optipng - PNG Optimizer 3. The login prompt 4. gTweakUI - Tweak the GNOME User Interface 5. Friday Fun: Ball: Buster - Breakthrough game 11. Advisories and Updates 1. Fedora 7 Security Advisories 2. Fedora Core 6 Security Advisories 12. Events and Meetings 1. Fedora Board Meeting Minutes 2007-MM-DD 2. Fedora Documentation Steering Committee 2007-MM-DD 3. Fedora Engineering Steering Committee Meeting 2007-MM-DD 4. Fedora Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Meeting 2007-07-05 5. Fedora Infrastructure Meeting (Log) 2007-07-05 6. Fedora Packaging Committee Meeting 2007-07-03 7. Fedora Release Engineering Meeting 2007-07-02 8. Fedora Translation Project Meeting 2007-07-03 13. Feedback == Announcements == In this section, we cover announcements from various projects. Contributing Writer: ThomasChung === New Infrastructure Ticketing System === MikeMcGrath announces in fedora-devel-announce[1], The Infrastructure Team has decided to change ticketing systems. The new system is available at [2]. We'll be continuing to set that site up but tickets can now be filed there. The previous ticketing system at [3] turned out to be a bit to heavy for our teams needs. Using a Trac system feels more natural to us and we suspect it will feel more natural to the community as well. [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2007-July/msg3.html [2] https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/fedora-infrastructure/report [3] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/tickets/ === Reminder -- Vote in the Fedora Board election === MaxSpevack announces in fedora-announce-list[1], I would like to remind everyone to vote in the Fedora Board elections[2], which are currently ongoing... The Fedora Board's membership changes on a rotating basis. This election is for 3 of the 9 Fedora Board seats. The Fedora Board is the Fedora Project's executive committee and is ultimately accountable for everything that happens within Fedora, and delegates responsibillity to various sub-projects accordingly [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2007-July/msg2.html [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Elections === Fedora Core 5 Retirement (EOL) === WarrenTogami announces in fedora-announce-list[1], As of Monday, July 2nd 2007, Fedora Core 5 has gone into retirement. No further updates will be issued for FC5 or FE5 as we refocus our developer attention to development of F8 and maintenance of our most recent stable Fedora 7. By the current Fedora 8 development schedule[2], the supported lifetime of FC6 is to continue to a minimum of early December 2007. [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2007-July/msg1.html [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/8/Schedule == Planet Fedora == In this section, we cover a highlight of Planet Fedora - an aggregation of blogs from world wide Fedora contributors. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Planet Contributing Writers: ThomasChung, KarstenWade === Red Hat High === MaxSpevack points out in his blog[1] Red Hat High[2] is a week-long summer camp for rising 8th and 9th graders. This is the second year that Red Hat has done the program. Last year my contribution was giving a talk about the collaborative power of wikis to the campers. This year, GregDeKoenigsberg is the primary organizer of Red Hat High, and
The new Fedora Board
Hi everyone, We've just completed the first Fedora Board succession process, and I wanted to take a moment to share the results with everyone. Staying on for another release cycle are Seth Vidal, Bill Nottingham, Chris Blizzard, and Matt Domsch. Joining them are 5 new Board members. Karsten Wade is a Senior Developer Relations Manager at Red Hat. He has been a long-time contributor to Fedora, serving previously as the Chairman of the Fedora Documentation Steering Committee. He is active in community building, writing, website design, translations, and documentation. Karsten lives in Santa Cruz, CA. Dennis Gilmore works as a Enterprise Systems Administrator at Jupiter Images in Peoria, IL. Dennis has worked in most aspects of Fedora. Currently he is involved in Infrastructure, FESCo, and EPEL, He is also an active package maintainer and active on implementing secondary architecture's. Dennis Lives in Washington, IL with his wife and two dogs. Christopher Aillon is the Desktop Applications Engineering Team Lead for Red Hat, where he has worked since 2004. He has been a long time contributor to the Mozilla Project (e.g. Firefox, Thunderbird) and has made many contributions to NetworkManager and various GNOME applications. He has been heavily involved with Fedora, having made contributions to over 100 packages. Jef Spaleta is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the SuperDARN research group at the Geophysical Institute on the UAF campus. He has been an active community contributor in some form or fashion since the Fedora Project began. Initially focusing on end-user troubleshooting and bug triage, then as a Fedora Extras contributor. He lives in Fairbanks, Alaska and enjoys the alternating seasonal joys of curling and canoing and the pleasantly squeaky sound that snow makes under your shoe at -20 F. Steve Dickson is a kernel Engineer at Red Hat. For the last five years or so he has been responsible their NFS, NIS, CIFS and QUOTA packages (both kernel and user level). His responsibilities include both RHEL and Fedora releases. In prior lives he worked on DEC's TruCluster product as well as a short stint working in the infiniband world writing both user and kernel applications for the Linux. Steve started his career at Lachman Associates developing and supporting SCO's NFS implementation. For more information, see: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board http://fedoraproject.org.wiki/Board/History These pages will be updated shortly to reflect this email. --Max -- Max Spevack + http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MaxSpevack + gpg key -- http://spevack.org/max.asc + fingerprint -- CD52 5E72 369B B00D 9E9A 773E 2FDB CB46 5A17 CF21 -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Smolt, Open Invitation
Smolt will reach 75,000 profiles in the next 24 hours and with that news I'm excited to announce functional clients that work in SuSE, Debian, and Ubuntu. With the help of the Linux community at large we could start to better understand what is out there. Look to changes in the near future like a ratings system, better reporting tools and other such improvements. But we need your help! We would like knowledgeable contributors help with our code base, especially in the scope of packaging the smolt client for SuSE, Debian, Ubuntu, Mandrake, you name it. We're hoping Smolt will grow far beyond being just a Fedora thing and become a Linux thing. If you are a member of another community and are interested in collaboration please let me know, if you know someone that might be interested, tell them! Current Stats - http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/ Project Page - https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/smolt/ -Mike P.S. If you haven't submitted your profile please do so with yum install smolt smoltSendProfile Thanks! -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Fedora Weekly News Issue 96
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 96 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 96[1] for the week of July 8th through July 14th 2007. The latest issue can always be found here[2] and RSS Feed can be found here[3]. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue96 [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/LatestIssue [3] http://fedoranews.org/cms/FWN/feed 1. Announcements 1. The new Fedora Board 2. FESCo Elections -- voting open 2. Planet Fedora 1. Attn: Content Management Geeks 2. Fedora 8 themes - Round 1 3. RMLL07 : Alan Cox on fedora-fr booth 3. Marketing 1. How's Fedora 7 Faring? 2. Fedora 7 KDE spin and Akademy 4. Developments 1. Video and Keymap Quirks 2. OLPC software: our first release and beyond 5. Maintainers 1. The Weekly EPEL Report 2. Fever Hits Fedora 6. Documentation 1. Current Status of Man/Info GSoC Project 2. Help Define Docs Workflow 7. Translation 1. Translation Website 8. Infrastructure 1. Fedorapeople.org 2. Outage Info 3. DB Upgrade 4. Common Problems Solved? 9. Artwork 1. More Theme Proposals 2. Nodoka Theme Engine 10. Security Week 1. Flash Player Security Update 2. Security and Accountability 11. Daily Package 1. Paquet Fedora du jour 2. ooo2txt - OpenOffice.org documents to Text 3. Ardour - Digital Audio Workstation 4. Menus 5. System-config-lvm - LVM GUI tool 6. Stellarium - Software planetarium 12. Advisories and Updates 1. Fedora 7 Security Advisories 2. Fedora Core 6 Security Advisories 13. Events and Meetings 1. Fedora Board Meeting Minutes 2007-07-10 2. Fedora Documentation Steering Committee 2007-MM-DD 3. Fedora Engineering Steering Committee Meeting 2007-07-12 4. Fedora Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Meeting 2007-07-11 5. Fedora Infrastructure Meeting (Log) 2007-MM-DD 6. Fedora Packaging Committee Meeting 2007-07-10 7. Fedora Release Engineering Meeting 2007-07-09 8. Fedora Translation Project Meeting 2007-07-10 14. Feedback == Announcements == In this section, we cover announcements from various projects. Contributing Writer: ThomasChung === The new Fedora Board === MaxSpevack announces in fedora-announce-list[1] We've just completed the first Fedora Board[2] succession process, and I wanted to take a moment to share the results with everyone. Staying on for another release cycle are SethVidal, BillNottingham, ChristopherBlizzard, and MattDomsch. Joining them are 5 new Board members: KarstenWade, DennisGilmore, ChristopherAillon, JefSpaleta, SteveDickson [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2007-July/msg5.html [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board === FESCo Elections -- voting open === BrianPepple announces in fedora-announce-list[1], Voting is now open for the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee elections. All 13 seats are up for election. The candidates are (in alphabetical order): (See the announcement for a list of candidates.) For details and some future plans of these fine people see:[2] [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2007-July/msg6.html [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SteeringCommittee/Nominations == Planet Fedora == In this section, we cover a highlight of Planet Fedora - an aggregation of blogs from world wide Fedora contributors. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Planet Contributing Writers: ThomasChung === Attn: Content Management Geeks === KarstenWade points out in his blog[1], Now is the time to weigh in on the next generation of the Fedora Documentation Publishing Platform. JonathanSteffan is running this as his Summer of Code project. Our goal is to enable 10x the current number of people to be active publishers of formal Fedora content. Out goal is to make writing, editing, translating, and publishing content for Fedora fun, easy, and profitable. If you have any insights in to how we should define our custom workflow and how we might want to tweak the default workflow in Plone, please join the discussion[2]. [1] http://iquaid.livejournal.com/21006.html [2] http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list === Fedora 8 themes - Round 1 === NicuBuculei points out in his blog[1], Later today, 11 July, is the end date of the Round 1 in the 3 round process to create a new theme[2] for the next release, Fedora 8. The focus in the first round was to gather ideas, concepts, metaphors, which would be refined in the next two rounds. Here is what we got so far: (See a list of proposed themes in his blog) [1] http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2007/07/fedora-8-themes-round-1.html [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F8Themes === RMLL07 : Alan Cox on fedora-fr booth === MaximeCarron points out in his blog[1], First and little post from RMLL[2] (Free
fedorapeople.org is now available
Hi Everyone, fedorapeople.org is now available for general use. What is fedorapeople.org?: It is a site where fedora contributors can upload files for sharing out with the world. It is perfect for uploading specfiles, srpms, patches, etc, etc. Each fedora contributor has 150M of quota-controlled space. Users can upload using scp, sftp or rsync. Once uploaded into the users public_html directory the files are available via http at: http://your_username.fedorapeople.org/. To connect to fedorapeople.org just use the ssh key you uploaded to your fedora account and then you can login via ssh to: fedorapeople.org What fedorapeople.org is NOT: - it is not a place for you to upload confidential or copyright-violating files. - it is not a shell for you to login and stay logged into - it is not a place for you to run your favorite proxy of whatever kind - it is not a database server - it is not a mail server - it is not a run-my-favorite-cgi-server - it is not a blog server We've tried our best to minimize and secure the services. Don't make a lot of unreasonable requests asking for us to undo that. :) For reasonable requests please file put them in the fedora infrastructure ticketing system: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Tickets Let us know what breaks, -sv -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Fedora Weekly News Issue 97
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 97 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 97 for the week of July 15th through July 21st 2007. The latest issue can always be found here[2] and RSS Feed can be found here[3]. To join or give us a feedback, please visit our project join page[4]. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue97 [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/LatestIssue [3] http://fedoranews.org/cms/FWN/feed [4] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join 1. Announcements 1. fedorapeople.org is now available 2. Smolt, Open Invitation 2. Planet Fedora 1. Ohio Linux Fest Keynote Address 2. GNOME Cookbook 3. Repoview-0.6.0 4. Mascots and Fedora. Do we need one? Do we want one? 3. Marketing 1. Volunteers needed for GITEX (8-12 September) 2. New in Fedora: Jack Aboutboul 3. Proposed Fedora 8 Features 4. Smolt to be a Linux Thing 4. Developments 1. Plans for tickless kernel for x86_64 architecture in Fedora 8 2. 'Allo 'Allo Wot's This 'Ere License? 3. Yum Integration For Applications 4. Java Based Web Interface To Fedora Repositories? 5. Sysklogd Replaced With Rsyslogd in Fedora 8 6. Presto-digitation 7. Seahorse: Reducing The Number Of Passphrase And Password Challenges 8. Nodoka Theme: Clean, Easy On The Eyes, Featured in Fedora 8 9. RUM RHUM RHUME REDRUM OPIUM OPYUM: Offline Fedora Package Manager 10. Another GNOME Conspiracy Unmasked: ShowOnlyIn 5. Infrastructure 1. Fedorapeople.org is up 6. Security Week 1. Computer Viruses are 25 Years old 2. Serious Security Issues in Samsung Linux Drivers 3. Firefox 2.0.0.5 Released 7. Daily Package 1. Krecipes - Recipe manager 2. Pulseaudio - Next-generation audio server 3. Crontab 4. Hwbrowser - Display hardware info 5. Ri-li - Run a wooden train 8. Advisories and Updates 1. Fedora 7 Security Advisories 2. Fedora Core 6 Security Advisories 9. Events and Meetings 1. Fedora Board Meeting Minutes 2007-07-17 2. Fedora Ambassadors Meeting 2007-07-19 3. Fedora Documentation Steering Committee 2007-07-17 4. Fedora Engineering Steering Committee Meeting 2007-07-19 5. Fedora Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Meeting 2007-07-18 6. Fedora Infrastructure Meeting (Log) 2007-07-19 7. Fedora Packaging Committee Meeting 2007-07-17 8. Fedora Release Engineering Meeting 2007-07-16 9. Fedora Translation Project Meeting 2007-07-17 10. Extras Extras 1. LiveCD for Red Hat High == Announcements == In this section, we cover announcements from various projects. Contributing Writer: ThomasChung === fedorapeople.org is now available === SethVidal announces in fedora-announce-list[1], What is fedorapeople.org[2]?: It is a site where fedora contributors can upload files for sharing out with the world. It is perfect for uploading specfiles, srpms, patches, etc, etc. Each fedora contributor has 150M of quota-controlled space. Users can upload using scp, sftp or rsync. Once uploaded into the users public_html directory the files are available via http at: http://your_username.fedorapeople.org/. To connect to fedorapeople.org just use the ssh key you uploaded to your fedora account and then you can login via ssh to: fedorapeople.org [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2007-July/msg9.html [2] http://fedorapeople.org/ === Smolt, Open Invitation === MikeMcGrath announces in fedora-announce-list[1], Smolt[1] will reach 75,000 profiles in the next 24 hours and with that news I'm excited to announce functional clients that work in SuSE, Debian, and Ubuntu. With the help of the Linux community at large we could start to better understand what is out there. Look to changes in the near future like a ratings system, better reporting tools and other such improvements. [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2007-July/msg7.html [2] http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/ == Planet Fedora == In this section, we cover a highlight of Planet Fedora - an aggregation of blogs from world wide Fedora contributors. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Planet Contributing Writers: ThomasChung === Ohio Linux Fest Keynote Address === MaxSpevack points out in his blog[1], I've just purchased a plane ticket to Ohio Linux Fest[2], which is on Saturday September 29th. Joe Brockmeier is one of the primary organizers, and he asked me today if I would be willing to give one of the two keynote addresses. On behalf of all of Fedora, I am both flattered and excited to be given this opportunity. [1] http://spevack.livejournal.com/23470.html [2] http://www.ohiolinux.org/ === GNOME Cookbook === JohnPalmieri points out in his blog[1], A little birdy reminded me that GNOME's 10 year anniversary is coming up and I thought it would be
FESCo Election Results
Hi everyone, The FESCo election is over, and the members for the 2007/2008 FESCo are (in alphabetical order): 1. Christopher Aillon 2. Josh Boyer 3. Tom Callaway 4. Kevin Fenzi 5. Dennis Gilmore 6. Christian Iseli 7. Jeremy Katz 8. Jesse Keating 9. Bill Nottingham 10. Brian Pepple 11. Jason Tibbitts 12. Warren Togami 13. David Woodhouse The first meeting for the new FESCo will be July 26, at 17:00 UTC in the #fedora-meeting IRC channel. Thanks, /B -- Brian Pepple [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BrianPepple gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 810CC15E BD5E 6F9E 8688 E668 8F5B CBDE 326A E936 810C C15E signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Fedora Weekly News Issue 98
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 98 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 98 for the week of July 22nd, 2007. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue98 In this week, we have great announcements for Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL), 3000 Fedora 7 Installations as well as FESCo Election Results. Also we are launching a special section called 'Ask Fedora' where you can ask questions to Fedora Project. In Developmets, there are more than enough interesting discussions including RPM Roadmap, Fedora Sound System, Desktop Menus, Licensing and more. In Security Week, our Security Response Team reports a dangerous Firefox Flaw. In Daily Package, you'll find reviews of Fedora packages including Incron, eSpeak, Syslog, Seamonkey, BSD-Games. To join or give us your feedback, please visit http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join. 1. Announcements 1. Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) Now Open 2. 3000 Fedora 7 installations 3. FESCo Election Results 2. Planet Fedora 1. Improving package and system management 2. First rpm.org-RPM version released 3. Ask Fedora 4. Marketing 1. Fedora 8 To Integrate OpenJDK 2. A computer in every pot 3. Fedora stats offer insight into Linux usage 5. Developments 1. RPM Roadmap ... Panu Opens Pandora's Box 2. Package Management Craic[*] 3. Pulseaudio Improving Fedora Sound 4. What Should Appear In Desktop Menus 5. Kmods Deprecated 6. New Yum-updatesd (Rawhide Report 20070725) 7. NOTE: Please publicize any license changes to your packages (CONT.) 8. Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) Now Open 9. Abuse Of Fedora Trademark 10. XFS In Anaconda 6. Translation 1. F7 Release Notes Update 7. Infrastructure 1. Sponsor HowTo's 8. Artwork 1. Echo Icons Moved 2. Nodoka Engine 0.5 Released 3. Fedora 8 Theme Decisions 9. Security Week 1. Dangerous Firefox Flaw 10. Daily Package 1. Incron - Execute commands based on filesystem activity 2. eSpeak - Voice synthesizer 3. Wednesday Why: Syslog 4. Seamonkey - Mozilla suite 5. BSD-Games: Text games 11. Advisories and Updates 1. Fedora 7 Security Advisories 2. Fedora Core 6 Security Advisories 12. Events and Meetings 1. Fedora Board Meeting Minutes 2007-MM-DD 2. Fedora Ambassadors Meeting 2007-07-26 3. Fedora Documentation Steering Committee 2007-MM-DD 4. Fedora Engineering Steering Committee Meeting 2007-07-26 5. Fedora Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Meeting (Log) 2007-07-26 6. Fedora Infrastructure Meeting (Log) 2007-07-26 7. Fedora Packaging Committee Meeting 2007-MM-DD 8. Fedora Release Engineering Meeting 2007-07-23 9. Fedora Translation Project Meeting (Log) 2007-07-24 == Announcements == In this section, we cover announcements from various projects. Contributing Writer: ThomasChung === Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) Now Open === KarstenWade announces in fedora-announce-list[1], If you use enterprise-class Linux (EL) distributions derived from Fedora, such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS, we have something very exciting for you. EPEL[2] is a community of package maintainers working from inside of Fedora. Many are the same people who maintain the Fedora version. Yet, there room for new packages and contributors. Currently, around 1000 packages are available, and we've been growing at the rate of several dozen packages every week. [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2007-July/msg00012.html [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL === 3000 Fedora 7 installations === NayyarAhmad announces in fedora-ambassadors-list[1], After a long discussions and few presentation, i have convinced Mozambique[2] Ministry of Finance (SISTAFE) to migrate their workstation around the country from MS Windows to Linux (Fedora 7), now they have officially approved the migration country wide and i will supervise this migration, plus will help them in end user training, its the first time in Mozambique that a Govt. department have opt for Linux (Fedora) and in my opinion it has been a big achievement, as after their migration i will be able to speak with other ministries and private firms. [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-ambassadors-list/2007-July/msg00075.html [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozambique === FESCo Election Results === BrianPepple announces in fedora-announce-list[1], The FESCo[2] election is over, and the members for the 2007/2008 FESCo are (in alphabetical order): ChristopherAillon, JoshBoyer, TomCallaway, KevinFenzi, DennisGilmore, ChristianIseli, JeremyKatz, JesseKeating, BillNottingham, BrianPepple, JasonTibbitts, WarrenTogami, DavidWoodhouse [1]
Site for Chilean users of Fedora
I have the privilege to communicate that Chile already has a site for the community of Fedora users. This site tries to give information to local users, as well as to make available a local Yum mirror of Updates. You can enter the site http://fedora.linuxdiinf.org I must be thankful to linuxdiinf.org for site hosting. Regards, -- Eduardo Villagrán Morales Embajador Fedora Linuxdiinf signature.asc Description: Esta parte del mensaje está firmada digitalmente -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Fedora Weekly News Issue 101
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 101 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 101 for the week of August 13th. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue101 Here is a highlight of this week's report: In Ask Fedora, we have Location For Menu Entries And Customization and 64-bit Java Plugin. In Daily Package, we have Fedora Daily Package Articles in Chinese, MediaWiki - Collaborative publishing, RenRot - Rename and rotate photos, Wednesday Why: Logins and Sessions, GKrellM - System monitoring tool, TaxiPilot - Drive a Space Taxi and Fedora Daily Package Weekly Video Summary To join or give us your feedback, please visit http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join. 1. Announcements 2. Ask Fedora 1. Location For Menu Entries And Customization 2. 64-bit Java Plugin 3. Planet Fedora 1. Fedora 8 virtualization work-in-progress 2. LinuxWorld San Francisco 2007 Wrap-Up 4. Daily Package 1. Fedora Daily Package Weekly Video Summary 2. Fedora Daily Package Articles in Chinese 3. MediaWiki - Collaborative publishing 4. RenRot - Rename and rotate photos 5. Wednesday Why: Logins and Sessions 6. GKrellM - System monitoring tool 7. TaxiPilot - Drive a Space Taxi 5. Marketing 1. Deskftop Faceoff: Fedora vs. Vista 2. Virgin America moves from Fedora to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. Installing Fedora - a video tour 6. Developments 1. PulseAudio Enabled By Default 2. GPL And LGPL Not Acceptable For Fedora 3. Mock Problems With Failing libdb-4.5.so Dependency 4. Attention! Low-Hanging Fruit Ahead! 5. XFS Problems Confirmed On x86 LVM 6. Mkinitrd EHCI-HCD Erro-71 On Boot 7. Meet The Desktop Team 8. Naming Fedora 8 And How Freezing Works 9. Package Management Cont. 10. TeXLive Status 7. Maintainers 1. Naming Fedora 8 2. The Status of Eclipse 3.3 In Fedora 8 8. Translation 1. String and Trans Freeze Pages 2. Module Movement Suggestions 9. Infrastructure 1. Builder Monitoring 10. Security Week 1. Real world security 11. Advisories and Updates 12. Fedora 7 Security Advisories 13. Fedora Core 6 Security Advisories 14. Events and Meetings 1. Fedora Board Meeting Minutes 2007-MM-DD 2. Fedora Ambassadors Meeting 2007-08-16 3. Fedora Documentation Steering Committee 2007-08-14 4. Fedora Engineering Steering Committee Meeting 2007-MM-DD 5. Fedora Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Meeting 2007-08-15 6. Fedora Infrastructure Meeting (Log) 2007-MM-DD 7. Fedora Localization Project Meeting 2007-08-14 8. Fedora Packaging Committee Meeting 2007-MM-DD 9. Fedora Release Engineering Meeting 2007-08-13 15. Extras Extras 1. Fedora 7 Book for FWN 100th Issue [[Anchor(Announcements)]] == Announcements == In this section, we cover announcements from various projects. Contributing Writer: ThomasChung There was no significant announcement last week. [[Anchor(AskFedora)]] == Ask Fedora == In this section, we answer general questions from Fedora community. Send your questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and Fedora News Team will bring you answers from the Fedora Developers and Contributors to selected number of questions every week as part of our weekly news report. Please indicate if you do not wish your name and/or email address to be published. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AskFedora Contributing Writer: RahulSundaram === Location For Menu Entries And Customization === ''Joe Klemmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have all three of the major desktop environments installed on my systems. My primary is Xfce but I do use GNOME or KDE at times. One thing I have found is that the menu's are not consistent across desktops. On my system Fedora 7 box it seems that KDE has MANY more entries in it's menu than GNOME or Xfce. Xfce generates it's menu on the fly and I'm guessing that the other two do as well. Is there any standard for placement of .desktop files? Something more effective than locate .desktop As an adjunct to this, is there a proper place for users to put manually created .desktop files? I have been putting them with the regular ones in /usr/share/applications/ but I'd be more at ease if there were a place under $(HOME) to put them. Something other than $(HOME)/Desktop as I wish to have entries in the menus but not on the desktop.'' Desktop menu entries in GNOME, KDE and Xfce among others follow the freedesktop.org desktop entry specification [1]. The specification allows for certain entries to be shown only in one particular desktop environment or excluded from others based on the how they are specified in the desktop files in Fedora packages. The menu is generated dynamically from the .desktop files. The system default folder in Fedora for menu entries is
Fedora Weekly News Issue 102
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 102 =
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 102 for the week of August 20th.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue102
Here is a highlight of this week's report:
In Ask Fedora, we have Cleaning Old Files and Packages and CD Split
For fedora 7.
In Daily Package, we have Remind - GUI/Text reminder service,
Gallery2 - Web photo gallery, Audio Setting Persistence,
Transmission - BitTorrent Client and BZFlag - Capture-the-flag in a
Tank.
FYI, Fedora Weekly News will take a summer break until September 21st.
To join or give us your feedback, please visit
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join.
1. Announcements
2. Ask Fedora
1. Cleaning Old Files and Packages
2. CD Split For fedora 7
3. Planet Fedora
1. New Features in Fedora 8 - disable dontaudit rules
4. Daily Package
1. Fedora Daily Package Articles in Russian
2. Remind - GUI/Text reminder service
3. Gallery2 - Web photo gallery
4. Wednesday Why: Audio Setting Persistence
5. Transmission - BitTorrent Client
6. BZFlag - Capture-the-flag in a Tank
5. Marketing
1. Fedora/Open Source Success Story
2. A view of Linux as introduced by a blind user via Orca
6. Developments
1. KDE: Replace Dolphin With D3lphin?
2. Rebuilds Essential For Fedora 8
3. 23rd Aug FESCo Meeting
4. Development Spin
5. Making Initscripts LSB Compliant
6. BuildID And Proprietary Drivers
7. KDE4 Not A Feature Of Fedora 8?
8. Auto-Opening Of Ports In Firewalls By Services
9. TeXLive Licensing Problem?
10. dist-rawhide Not A Valid Target In Koji
7. Translation
1. Developer Wiki Page
2. String Freeze Policy
3. Translation Quick Start Guide
8. Infrastructure
1. Turbogears and Memory Usage
2. Asterisk on the Wiki
3. Bugzilla Upgrade
9. Security Week
1. July 2007 Operating System Vulnerability Scorecard
10. Advisories and Updates
11. Fedora 7 Security Advisories
12. Fedora Core 6 Security Advisories
13. Events and Meetings
1. Event Report: WBUT install fest. part 1
2. Fedora Board Meeting Minutes 2007-08-21
3. Fedora Ambassadors Meeting 2007-MM-DD
4. Fedora Documentation Steering Committee 2007-08-21
5. Fedora Engineering Steering Committee Meeting 2007-MM-DD
6. Fedora Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Meeting 2007-08-22
7. Fedora Infrastructure Meeting (Log) 2007-08-23
8. Fedora Localization Project Meeting 2007-08-21
9. Fedora Packaging Committee Meeting 2007-08-21
10. Fedora Release Engineering Meeting 2007-08-20
[[Anchor(Announcements)]]
== Announcements ==
In this section, we cover announcements from various projects.
Contributing Writer: ThomasChung
There was no Official Announcement from Fedora Project last week.
[[Anchor(AskFedora)]]
== Ask Fedora ==
In this section, we answer general questions from Fedora community.
Send your questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and Fedora News
Team will bring you answers from the Fedora Developers and
Contributors to selected number of questions every week as part of our
weekly news report. Please indicate if you do not wish your name
and/or email address to be published.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AskFedora
Contributing Writer: RahulSundaram, PaulFrields
=== Cleaning Old Files and Packages ===
''Peter A. Shevtsov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: From time to time I
install some new software on my computers just to look at it, to try,
to see if it is the right tool for me, etc. After reading new articles
on Fedora Daily Package I run yum more frequently :)
This software requires some additional packages, libraries, etc. Also,
it creates some config files in my home dir. But when I remove the
software the redundant packages (libraries) and config files stay in
my system. Is there any way to remove theses unused packages and old
config files?''
By way of answering your question about configuration files, consider
that package updates are actually a remove and an install action. If
configuration files were included in package removal, instead of
sometimes treated specially, then upgrading a package might actually
erase the administrator's system configuration! This is obviously not
a desirable outcome, so many packages mark their system configuration
files in the RPM database so they are not yanked off the system. To
see if an installed package has a specially marked configuration file,
use the command {{{rpm -qc package_name}}}.
If you want to clean your system of packages that are not required by
any other software on your system, you can use the
{{{package-cleanup}}} script that is part of the 'yum-utils' package.
Install 'yum-utils' with the command {{{su -c yum -y install
yum-utils}}} and then run {{{su -c package-cleanup --leaves}}} to
see a
Fedora Rel-Eng Meeting Recap 2007-SEP-10
Recap and full IRC transcript found here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/Meetings/2007-sep-10 Please make corrections and clarifications to the wiki page. == News Update From F13 == * Test2 is on the way to mirrors * rawhide is now back to being rawhide unfrozen * minimal buildroots have been adjusted (util-linux-ng is back, perl(-devel) not listed) * have a list of names for F8--need to followup with legal * we should really go after the broken deps and upgrade paths a week or two before the test3 freeze * when are we supposed to turn off new packages for FC6? * FC6 gets shut down one month after F8, do we turn off new packages beforehand? * I'm working on the signing server stuff, and making good progress. I updated the Spec page for it and moved it into ReleaseEngineering/Projects/ space. * hope to have something reasonable for a code drop in a git module or something by the end of this week. Right now things like gpg key and passphrase are hardcoded so I don't want to commit that anywhere right now (: == Miscellaneous == * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/Policy/EOL * The EOL policy is clearly stale/out-out-date, something FESCo should probably clarify/update. * Should we do freezes and and snapshots differently for F9 and beyond? * http://katzj.livejournal.com/405215.html == IRC Transcript == -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Announcing Fedora 8 Test 2 (7.91)
Batten down the hatches, Fedora 8 Test 2 spotted just over the port side bow! A veritable sea of choices await you in this release. First up is the Fedora installable 'choose your own adventure' style set of isos and trees for i386, x86_64, and ppc(64). Next up we have a variety of Live images: * Fedora Live (i686, x86_64, ppc) - A good general use Desktop live image. i686 even fits on a CD! * Fedora KDE Live (i686, x86_64) - A Desktop based on the KDE software suite. i686 even fits on a CD! * Fedora Developer Live (i686) - A Live image designed for software developers. * Fedora Electronic Lab (FEL) Live (i686) - A live image designed for engineers working on electronics. Fits on a CD! Remember that these Live images can be used on USB meida via the 'livecd-iso-to-disk' utility available in the livecd-tools package. Test 2 is for beta users. This is the time where we have more features in a testable state where the more people using them and the more feedback we get the better. So please help us make Fedora 8 as good as we can! Release Notes = Work in progress release notes for this test release can be found in the Fedora wiki: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F8Test2/ReleaseNotes Road Map And Release Schedule = This is the second test release of the Fedora 8 release, which is scheduled for November 8, 2007. For further information see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/8/ How to get it: = DVD and network installation are available. We also offer a few different varieties of installable Live media. http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora.html For those of you already running rawhide, all you need to do is yum update. You may already have packages newer than Test 2 installed. Bug reporting and tracking: == The Release Engineering and QA teams keep track of bugs that are considered release blockers. You can see that list here: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/showdependencytree.cgi?id=F8Blocker In addition, a list of non-blocker bugs that should be fixed for Fedora 8 if possible can be found here: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/showdependencytree.cgi?id=F8Target Please check these lists before reporting new bugs! -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours? signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Cast your vote for the Fedora 8 Codename!
We have two options for the Fedora 8 codename, and you get to help decide which we use! https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/vote.cgi is the URL to cast your vote. Log in with your Fedora Account name and password. As long as you belong to at least one group in the Fedora Account System, you can cast your vote. Voting will end and be tallied at Oct, 5, 23:59:59 UTC. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours? signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Fedora Unity releases updated Fedora 7 Re-Spins.
The Fedora Unity Project is proud to announce the release of new ISO Re-Spins (DVD and CD Sets) of Fedora 7. These Re-Spin ISOs are based on Fedora 7 and all updates released as of September 12th, 2007. The ISO images are available for i386 and x86_64 architectures via jigdo starting Friday, September 28th, 2007. We have included CD Image sets for those in the Fedora community that do not have DVD drives or burners available. Fedora Unity has taken up the Re-Spin task to provide the community with the chance to install Fedora with recent updates already included. These updates might otherwise comprise more than 700MiB of downloads for a default install. This is a community project, for and by the community. You can contribute to the community by joining our test process. If you are interested in helping with the testing or mirroring efforts, please contact the Fedora Unity team. Contact information is available at http://fedoraunity.org/ or the #fedora-unity channel on the Freenode IRC Network (irc.freenode.net). Go to http://spins.fedoraunity.org/ to get the bits! To report bugs in the Re-Spins please use http://bugs.fedoraunity.org/ Fedora is a trademark of Red Hat, Inc. Robert 'Bob' Jensen Fedora Unity Founder [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Fedora-fr association was born !
Dear Fedora user, All the French Fedora Team is glad to announce you the creation of the association of the French speaking Fedora users. We will need your help to drive this project where all the users of Fedora are working for the same goal, the promotion of Fedora. Why an association ? * In order to promote Free software in general and the Fedora distribution in particular. This promotion will lead to the creation of support for the Fedora promotion, from simple flyers to CD/DVD for the installation of Fedora. * To support our website, one of the most important tool for the French community. * An association helps to increase the presence of the French community and gives more weight to his talk, indeed an association has more credibility in front of its partners, ie Fedora project, Red Hat or others. You should notice that the association has no link with the Fedora project itself or Red Hat. The project has been informed of the creation of the association but did not encourage it or support it in any way. What are the goals of the association ? * Promote free software around a central element: the GNU/Linux distribution Fedora. * Promote Fedora on different associations and events or meetings. * Create a network integrating users and developers of the Fedora GNU/Linux distribution. What are our resources ? * The French ambassador team, localized all around France, involved in different Linux User Group and other association. * The dues from our members. * The sell of goodies (T-shirts, mugs, hat...) should financially help to the association. Who is at the head of the association ? The member of the board are: President: Thomas Canniot (MrTom) Vice-president: Armel Kermorvant (armelk) Treasurer: Johan Cwiklinski (trashy) Secretary: Guillaume Kulakowski (llaumgui) Other members of the board: Maxime Carron (Pingoomax) Thierry Delmonte (Titax) Charles Vinchon (littlecharly) All are Fedora ambassador. Why becoming a member ? * Because you wish to be imply in the association's activities. * Because you wish to financially support the association to promote the distribution GNU/Linux Fedora and Free Software, without being actively involved in these actions. * Because you can become a member from 10 euros. Who can become a member ? The association accepts all French speaking people who wish to help the promotion of the Free software and the GNU/Linux distribution Fedora. How to become a member ? We invite you to have a look at the procedure described on the association's website http://asso.fedora-fr.org/Comment_devenir_membre How to do a simple donation ? If you wish to do a simple donation, you can have a look at the website http://ass.fedora-fr.org/Dons How to be involved in the Association actions ? One of the first goal of the association is to create support for the Fedora promotion during different the events and meetings. If you wish to be involved, actually there are several projects for which we are looking for help: * Small books presenting Fedora * Flyers * Posters * Stickers * Pens * Keyrings * ... We are also looking for partners to create Fedora CDs/DVDs. Where to find information about the association ? One website for all information, http://asso.fedora-fr.org All the team of Fedora-fr association is available to answer your questions and help you to lead your projects. Fedora-fr Team. -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Announcing Fedora 8 Test 3 (7.92)!
Fedora 8 Test 3 is here! This is the last test release before the development freeze and a great time to test all those packages that you know and love. Test 3 is for beta users. This is the time when we must have full community participation. Without this participation both hardware and software functionality suffers. Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that showcases the latest in free and open source software. Fedora is always free for anyone to use, modify, and distribute. It is built by people across the globe who work together as a community: the Fedora Project. The Fedora Project is open and anyone is welcome to join. Up-to-date release notes for Fedora 8 Test 3 can be found at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes. == Changes from Fedora 8 Test 2 == * Online Desktop provides a desktop experience designed around online services. A preview of Online Desktop is provided via BigBoard, which is a optional sidebar in GNOME. * KDE 3.5.7 is available in the KDE Live image as well as the regular DVD. The KDE 4 (Beta) Development Environment is available in the repository. * Live installations are faster and require a smaller root filesystem. The file system layout has also changed somewhat. System files for the Live images are now under `LiveOS/`, and a new `README` file has been provided as a short introduction to the live image. * Package management now features much better performance via `yum` and friends. * The completely free and open source Java environment called Iced Tea is installed by default. Iced Tea is derived from OpenJDK, includes a browser plugin based on GCJ, and is available for both x86 and x86_64 architectures. GCJ is still the default on PPC architecture. * CodecBuddy is now included, and promotes free, superior quality, open formats to end users trying to play multimedia content under patent encumbered or proprietary formats. * Bluetooth devices and tools now have better graphical and system integration. * Laptop users benefit from the quirks features in HAL, including better suspend/resume and multimedia keyboard support. * There is now improved power management thanks to both a tickless kernel in `x86` and `x86_64` architectures, and a reduction in unnecessary processor wakeups via `powertop`. * Eclipse 3.3 (Europa), a new release of the great IDE and development platform, is available as part of this release. * The `pam_console` module has been removed in favor of access control via HAL, which modernizes the desktop. * NetworkManager 0.7 provides improved wireless network management support. It includes support for multiple devices and provides the capability of system-wide configuration, among many other enhancements. This transition may induce some regressions temporarily, and more testing and feedback is appreciated. * Secure remote management capability is now provided for Xen, KVM, and QEMU virtualization. * Transifex provides a web-based translation interface to allow users to contribute translation work for Fedora hosted projects as well as being able to provide translations to upstream directly to any upstream project. * Integration of unique build IDs into Fedora's software building infrastructure now provide enhanced debugging capabilities and core dumps. * Fedora now offers easier rebranding of Fedora derivatives via a `generic-logos` software package. Changes in Fedora's mirror structure also make creation of derivatives easier. * Fedora now includes support for Nepali Language, extending its reach to many more users. === What's New in Fedora 8 === * A major list of features is available at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/8/FeatureList. === Release Schedule for Fedora 8 === * The Fedora 8 release schedule can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/8/Schedule. Fedora 8 is scheduled for general release on 8 November 2007. === How to Get Fedora 8 Test 3 === * Fedora 8 Test 3 can be installed via Live image, regular DVD, or via network installation. You can find the DVD images as well as the primary live images at: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/7.92/ * You can also download the DVD and Live images via bittorrent at: http://torrent.fedoraproject.org * More information on the various spins available with the release of Fedora 8 Test 3 is available at: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F8Test3/Spins People who are already running the rawhide (development) branch of Fedora or any of the previous test releases can simply run `yum update`. (Some current Rawhide packages might be newer than Fedora 8 Test 3 packages.) We also appreciate new installation testing for feedback on changes to the Anaconda installer. == Known Issues == * [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=302381 Bug 302381] If you are installing via DVD or also possibly NFS-mounted ISO images, the Add/Remove Programs application (`pirut`) may crash when run, with a traceback about HAL. Running
Fedora Weekly News Issue 104
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 104 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 104 for the week of October 1st. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue104 In Announcements, we have Announcing Fedora 8 Test 3 (7.92)! To join or give us your feedback, please visit http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join. 1. Announcements 1. Announcing Fedora 8 Test 3 (7.92)! 2. Ask Fedora 1. How can I be a part of Fedora? 3. Planet Fedora 1. Release Notes freeze 2. Summit Happenings 4. Marketing 1. Fedora 7: A Solid Core Distribution 2. Interview with Fedora's Max Spevack 5. Developments 1. Pungi Error Corrected 2. GPLv2 Obligations To Maintain Sources 3. Co-maintainers Without Sponsorship? 4. Orinoco Driver And Scanning Problems With NetworkManager 5. /etc/hosts Discussion Yields libICE Fix 6. Speeding Up Firefox? 7. Bodhi To Allow cvsextras To Push To Testing 8. ExcludeArch Packaging Bug Resolved For 'gnome-python2-extras' 9. Mono Packages Lagging, New Co-maintainer Added 10. Mixing Macros And Native Commands In Specfiles 11. Fedora 8 Test 3 Announced 6. Translation 1. Online Translation 2. Pirut 7. Infrastructure 1. MirrorManager Patch 2. CVSExtras 8. Security Week 1. VM-Based Rootkits Proved Easily Detectable 2. Linux phishing botnet statistics can be deceptive 3. you security people are insane. 9. Advisories and Updates 1. Fedora 7 Security Advisories 2. Fedora Core 6 Security Advisories 10. Events and Meetings 1. Fedora Board Meeting Minutes 2007-MM-DD 2. Fedora Ambassadors Meeting 2007-MM-DD 3. Fedora Documentation Steering Committee 2007-10-07 4. Fedora Engineering Steering Committee Meeting 2007-10-04 5. Fedora Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Meeting (Log) 2007-MM-DD 6. Fedora Infrastructure Meeting (Log) 2007-10-04 7. Fedora Localization Project Meeting 2007-MM-DD 8. Fedora Packaging Committee Meeting 2007-10-02 9. Fedora Release Engineering Meeting 2007-10-01 [[Anchor(Announcements)]] == Announcements == In this section, we cover announcements from various projects. Contributing Writer: ThomasChung === Announcing Fedora 8 Test 3 (7.92)! === JeremyKatz announces in fedora-announce-list[1], Fedora 8 Test 3 is here! This is the last test release before the development freeze and a great time to test all those packages that you know and love. Test 3 is for beta users. This is the time when we must have full community participation. Without this participation both hardware and software functionality suffers. [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2007-October/msg1.html [[Anchor(AskFedora)]] == Ask Fedora == In this section, we answer general questions from Fedora community. Send your questions to askfedora AT fedoraproject.org and Fedora News Team will bring you answers from the Fedora Developers and Contributors to selected number of questions every week as part of our weekly news report. Please indicate if you do not wish your name and/or email address to be published. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AskFedora Contributing Writer: RahulSundaram === How can I be a part of Fedora? === ''Mark McLaughlin: How can I be a part of the Fedora project and be able to cast a vote for the codename for the next Fedora Releases? I want to contribute with ideas and distribute Live CDs in New England USA '' You can be part of Fedora by joining one of the sub projects available at http://fedoraproject.org/join-fedora.html. Any Fedora contributor would be able to vote for a codename for the upcoming releases of Fedora. Ideas are worth it's weight in gold but the key factor in realizing those ideas in many instances is to step up and do the work involved. With Free software, you don't have to be contend with merely being a consumer and you have the nice opportunity to go beyond it and drive the changes you desire. Go for it. If you are interested in distributing media freely to more end users, join the Free Media project at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/FreeMedia where hundreds of copies of Fedora is being distributed every month all over the world by volunteers in the Fedora community. Give everyone you can, the gift of Fedora! [[Anchor(PlanetFedora)]] == Planet Fedora == In this section, we cover a highlight of Planet Fedora - an aggregation of blogs from world wide Fedora contributors. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Planet Contributing Writers: ThomasChung === Release Notes freeze === PaulFrields points out in his blog[1], Tomorrow night at 2359 UTC the wiki beats, where we collect the release notes for F8, will be frozen for the final release. From there, we produce DocBook XML sources which go to the L10N folks for translation for
Fedora Weekly News Issue 107
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 107 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 107 for the week of October 22nd. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue107 In PlanetFedora, we have Fedora 8 - Blocker bugs status, Fedora 8 ALSA kernel needs Testing, Scary Haloween with Werewolves, and Projeto Fedora? To join or give us your feedback, please visit http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join. 1. Announcements 2. Planet Fedora 1. Fedora 8 - Blocker bugs status 2. Fedora 8 ALSA kernel needs Testing 3. Scary Haloween with Werewolves 4. Projeto Fedora? 3. Marketing 1. Fedora, Transifex and upstream L10N 2. Red Hat Magazine | GIMP 2.4 preview 3. Fedora 8 renews tradition of innovations 4. Developments 1. Crypto Consolidation 2. Fedora 8 Blocker Bugs 3. Laptop Harddrive Wear And Tear 4. BIG FAT WARNING: X Breaking In Rawhide 5. Fluendo Codecs Violate SELinux Policies 6. SUIDs Gone Wild 7. ALSA 1.0.15 Update Test Kernels 8. RPM Packages Not Signed? 9. KDE Compiz Switching Snazziness 10. Rules On Packaging Vestigial Libraries 5. Advisory Board 1. Content On start.fedoraproject.org 2. New FUDCon Proposal 6. Translation 1. Release Notes Work (Now and Future) 2. Translation of fedoraproject.org 7. Infrastructure 1. News site CMS 2. Koji Personal Repos 8. Security Week 1. Why are so many browser flaws rated as critical? 2. Virtualization is less secure 9. Advisories and Updates 1. Fedora 7 Security Advisories 2. Fedora Core 6 Security Advisories 10. Events and Meetings 1. Fedora Board Meeting Minutes 2007-MM-DD 2. Fedora Ambassadors Meeting 2007-MM-DD 3. Fedora Documentation Steering Committee 2007-MM-DD 4. Fedora Engineering Steering Committee Meeting 2007-10-25 5. Fedora Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Report 2007-10-28 6. Fedora Infrastructure Meeting (Log) 2007-10-25 7. Fedora KDE-SIG Meeting 2007-10-23 8. Fedora Localization Meeting 2007-MM-DD 9. Fedora Marketing Meeting 2007-MM-DD 10. Fedora Packaging Committee Meeting 2007-MM-DD 11. Fedora Release Engineering Meeting 2007-10-22 [[Anchor(Announcements)]] == Announcements == In this section, we cover announcements from Fedora Project. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list Contributing Writer: ThomasChung No Official Announcement was made for this week. [[Anchor(PlanetFedora)]] == Planet Fedora == In this section, we cover a highlight of Planet Fedora - an aggregation of blogs from world wide Fedora contributors. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Planet Contributing Writers: ThomasChung === Fedora 8 - Blocker bugs status === RahulSundaram points out in his blog[1], As we get ready for a new release of Fedora, the things we worry about most are the blocker bugs. A couple of QA meetings back, I suggested to Will Woods to post status reports of the blocker bugs every week or alternative week to get some eyes on the important bugs that can block a release and delay it and he has been doing those now and then. [1] http://rahulsundaram.livejournal.com/16263.html === Fedora 8 ALSA kernel needs Testing === WarrenTogami points out in his blog[1], We are seriously considering using this newer upstream ALSA in F8. But given the tight schedule we need testing to be sure it doesn't horribly break anyone. Reportedly it makes sound behave MUCH better on newer laptops, like ICH8 Intel hardware. Test! [1] http://wtogami.livejournal.com/19782.html === Scary Haloween with Werewolves === NicuBuculei points out in his blog[1], I planned to show this cartoon out only next, in time for Halloween, but as it was unveiled already in another place, here is it: halloween. [1] http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2007/10/scary-haloween-with-werewolves.html === Projeto Fedora? === MikeMcGrath points out in his blog[1], Thats right, some of our volunteers have been hard at work (ivazquez and ricky in particular). These guys with the help of some others have gotten our new website in a bit better shape. More translations are on the way, if you're a translator, help translate and proof what's there! We had initially scheduled it for Fedora 9 but the work is done already so F8 it is! [1] http://mmcgrath.livejournal.com/10595.html [[Anchor(Marketing)]] == Marketing == In this section, we cover Fedora Marketing Project. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: ThomasChung === Fedora, Transifex and upstream L10N === JonathanRoberts reports in fedora-marketing-list[1], Free software is used all around the world, and as such it needs to be translated to all kinds of different locales. Fedora has a very active translation community, and they decided it was time that some better
Fedora Core 6 End of Life
A reminder to users: Fedora Core 6 will reach its end of life for updates on Friday, December 7, 2007. Fedora 7 will remain supported until one month past the release of Fedora 9 (as things stand, this would be roughly through the end of May, 2008). - The Fedora Board -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Fedora Weekly News Issue 108
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 108 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 108 for the week of October 29th. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue108 In Announcements, we have Fedora Core 6 End of Life In Planet Fedora, we have Fedora 8 Release is on its Way Out, Fedora 8 Release Summary, Upgrading from Rawhide to Final Release and Codec Buddy Interview To join or give us your feedback, please visit http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join. 1. Announcements 1. Fedora Core 6 End of Life 2. Planet Fedora 1. Fedora 8 Release is on its Way Out 2. Fedora 8 Release Summary 3. Upgrading from Rawhide to Final Release 4. Codec Buddy Interview 3. Marketing 1. Fedora struggles with harm reduction via CodecBuddy 2. PulseAudio by default in Fedora 8! 3. New Display Tool Coming In Fedora 9 4. Developments 1. Package EVR Problems 2. MP3 Licensing Issues 3. KDE Flamewar Warms Up Night Of Final Freeze 4. Filesystem Mounts: UUIDs or LABELs? 5. Split KDE Packages 6. IcedTea Plugin On x86_64 7. SecondLife Exposes Mesa Licensing Problem? 5. Advisory Board 1. Fedora Board Meeting 6. Fonts 1. Fedora Fonts SIG TODO List 7. Infrastructure 1. The Wiki 8. Security Week 1. IBM Plans Major Security Initiative 9. Advisories and Updates 1. Fedora 7 Security Advisories 10. Events and Meetings 1. Fedora Board Meeting Minutes 2007-10-30 2. Fedora Ambassadors Meeting 2007-MM-DD 3. Fedora Documentation Steering Committee (Log) 2007-10-28 4. Fedora Engineering Steering Committee Meeting 2007-MM-DD 5. Fedora Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Report 2007-MM-DD 6. Fedora Infrastructure Meeting (Log) 2007-11-01 7. Fedora KDE-SIG Meeting 2007-10-30 8. Fedora Localization Meeting 2007-MM-DD 9. Fedora Marketing Meeting 2007-MM-DD 10. Fedora Packaging Committee Meeting 2007-10-30 11. Fedora Release Engineering Meeting 2007-10-29 [[Anchor(Announcements)]] == Announcements == In this section, we cover announcements from Fedora Project. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list Contributing Writer: ThomasChung === Fedora Core 6 End of Life === BillNottingham announces in fedora-announce-list[1], A reminder to users: Fedora Core 6 will reach its end of life for updates on Friday, December 7, 2007. Fedora 7 will remain supported until one month past the release of Fedora 9 (as things stand, this would be roughly through the end of May, 2008). [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2007-November/msg0.html [[Anchor(PlanetFedora)]] == Planet Fedora == In this section, we cover a highlight of Planet Fedora - an aggregation of blogs from world wide Fedora contributors. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Planet Contributing Writers: ThomasChung === Fedora 8 Release is on its Way Out === JeremyKatz points out in his blog[1], As a few other people have mentioned, we finished up Fedora 8 on Friday and it's currently on its way to the mirror masters so that the mirrors should be able to start picking it up tomorrow (just pending getting the export control bits into place) and we'll be releasing on Thursday. Overall, I'm feeling pretty good about the release -- we got some good things in and I think that a lot of the improvements should be pretty visible to most of our users. Doesn't mean there are things that could be better or that we could do better from a process perspective. But for the moment, I think I'm going to try to enjoy the fact that the release is done. [1] http://katzj.livejournal.com/408520.html === Fedora 8 Release Summary === JonathanRoberts points out in his blog[1], Fedora 8 is out in 5 days now and as part of our final marketing efforts we've been putting together a release summary. Take a look at it, and if there's a new feature that you really like and we've missed, add a section on it! And if there's a feature you really like that we haven't done justice too, (please remember, we're trying to keep it brief) expand and improve on what we've done! [1] http://blog.questionsplease.org/2007/11/04/release-summary/ === Upgrading from Rawhide to Final Release === MaxSpevack points out in his blog[1] Every release cycle, there seems to be confusion about how to transition over from Rawhide (the nightly build of Fedora) to whatever the final release is (in this case, Fedora 8). This confusion is understandable, because at first glance the process is a bit magical. Let's see if I can explain it a little bit. The short answer is this: you don't have to do anything! It will Just Work. [1] http://spevack.livejournal.com/33314.html === Codec Buddy Interview === JonathanRoberts points out in his blog[1], Starting to pick up the pace a bit to make sure I get all the interviews covered
rpm.livna.org repositories for Fedora 8 (Werewolf) now available
On behalf of the Livna ( http://rpm.livna.org ) contributers I'd like to
announce the availability of the Livna package repository for Fedora 8
(Werewolf). The Livna repository hosts software as RPM packages which
cannot be shipped in the official Fedora repository for various reasons
and supports the i386, x86_64 and ppc architectures.
Using the Livna repository gives your Werewolf the ability to play all
kinds of audio such as MP3 files and plays DVDs. Additionally Livna
offers the ATI and Nvidia closed-source drivers in a Fedora-compatible
rpm package for the Fedora users whose videocards are not yet fully
supported with the stock open source drivers.
You can browse the repository at http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/8/ To make
it available on a freshly installed Fedora 8 system run the following
command:
{{{
$ su -c 'rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm'
}}}
Further below you'll find some more examples on getting the important
bits for a modern system installed from livna.
On another note, I have some sad news:
Fedora 8 will be the last release livna will be offering its add-on
packages for. But don't despair, the future is bright: The Livna
contributers are busy working together with the guys behind dribble and
freshrpms to offer a unified repository in the future bringing you
games, multimedia software and other tools from a single source. This
merged repository is called RPM Fusion; you can find more information
about it at http://rpmfusion.org/
Interested? Want to help? Then don't hesitate and subscribe to the
developers mailing lists at
http://lists.rpmfusion.org/mailman/listinfo/rpmfusion-developers
or meet us in the #rpmfusion channel on freenode.
That's all folks. Thank you for your attention and we wish you a very
pleasant flight with the newly released Fedora 8 together with the Livna
repositories.
Bye!
Thorsten Leemhuis
== More details ==
Ladies and gentleman, the pilot has informed me that we've reached our
travel altitude. You can now loosen your seatbelt's and our flight
attendants will be with you shortly for refreshments. Still aboard and
reading? Great, here are some more informations for the curious:
=== Reminder for the folks that plan to yum-update to Fedora 8 ===
If you have livna-packages installed on your system and plan to
live-update to Fedora 8 using yum then please leave the livna-repos
enabled for the big yum update run. Then you'll get all the updated
packages from livna as well, which is important, as their dependencies
get fulfilled by the Fedora 8 packages -- that's not the case for the
old Livna packages that might still be installed on your Fedora system.
=== Examples to get the most important bits from livna ===
Once you installed the release-rpm you can install software using the
graphical software installation tool called pirut, which is part of
Fedora. You as root-users can also use yum on a command line to install
packages; for example:
* if you'd like to install xine as a video-player run
{{{
# yum install xine-lib-extras-nonfree xine
}}}
* if you prefer mplayer run
{{{
# yum install mplayer-gui
}}}
* if you prefer vlc run
{{{
# yum install vlc
}}}
* if you want to get the latest nvidia graphic drivers for modern cards
and the stock Fedora kernel run
{{{
# yum install kmod-nvidia
}}}
and restart X.
* if you want to get the latest amd graphic drivers for the stock Fedora
kernel run
{{{
# yum install kmod-fglrx
}}}
and restart X.
* you want to get MP3-Support in Gnome apps? run
{{{
# yum install gstreamer-plugins-ugly
}}}
* you're using KDE? Well, then run:
{{{
# yum install k3b-extras-nonfree kdemultimedia-extras-nonfree
}}}
=== Problems? ===
Let us know via http://bugzilla.livna.org/
=== Need support? ===
Many people in #fedora on freenode, on [EMAIL PROTECTED] and in the
forums know how to help.
=== Developer contact ===
Meet us in #livna on freenode or join the mailing list at
http://livna.org/mailman/listinfo/freeworld
=== EOF ===
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ATrpms for Fedora 8; EOL for Fedora Core 6
ATrpms is officially launching Fedora 8 support for i386, x86_64 and ppc. http://ATrpms.net/dist/f8/ o The actual download location is http://dl.atrpms.net/. Mirrors are listed at http://atrpms.net/mirrors/ o stable, testing and bleeding, the three subrepos per distribution are not cumulative inclusive on the server side. E.g. you need to add stable for testing, and both stable and testing for bleeding. ATrpms is a 3rd party general purpose package repository. It currently supports o F8/i386, F8/x86_64, F8/ppc, F7/i386, F7/x86_64, F7/ppc, FC6/i386, FC6/x86_64, FC6/ppc o RHEL5/i386, RHEL5/x86_64, RHEL4/i386, RHEL4/x86_64, RHEL3/i386, RHEL3/x86_64 FC6 support will be EOL'd once the Fedora Project drops support for it (e.g. on December 7, 2007). Configuration for package resolvers (replace i386 with x86_64 or ppc as needed) o yum [atrpms] name=Fedora 8 - i386 - ATrpms baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/f8-i386/atrpms/stable o smart [atrpms] name=Fedora 8 - i386 - ATrpms baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/f8-i386/atrpms/stable type=rpm-md o apt repomd http://dl.atrpms.net f8-i386/atrpms/stable you can provide feedback or request support on the ATrpms lists (http://lists.atrpms.net/), or the common bug tracker (http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/). Enjoy! -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net pgpD5gwyNvnnZ.pgp Description: PGP signature -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
Announcing the release of Fedora 8 (Werewolf)
(To the tune of Michael Jackson's Thriller) It's close to midnight and something cool is coming through the tubes It's looking real tight, a distro for the experts and the n00bs With Live CDs* so you can try it out before installing Or DVDs so you can have the packages you choose No way to lose 'Cause it's Fedora, Fedora 8 We'd love to have you join us and together we'll be great Using Fedora, Fedora 8 Just click the link and rescue your computer's future today Hotplugging speakers, you realize PulseAudio is sweet You feel the power of kernel 2.6.23 You close your eyes but then you can't see all the gorgeous artwork You want online? New NetworkManager helps you explore And try out BigBoard 'Cause it's Fedora, Fedora 8 This is the leading edge of free and open source today You've got Fedora, Fedora 8 A brand-new shiny desktop with the latest, greatest awaits (BRIDGE) Now firewalls, you will find, are a ball to configurate Virtual hosts you can manage the most secure way (It makes your day) Now you can authenticate They're out to get you, security enhancements stop them cold You want your codecs? Codeina is the legal way to go We've got the spins -- developers, electronics, and gaming And that's not all, we wanted to make sure your Java's free So we've got IcedTea Inside Fedora, Fedora 8 We promise Number 9 is no more than six months away, world Fedora, Fedora 8 So get aboard the torrent, share Fedora, score a new Fedora, by next May 'Cause it's Fedora, Fedora 8 You get to keep both pieces anytime that something breaks, girl Fedora, Fedora 8 If only Vincent Price could read this killer filler: Werewolf moves across the land Router meltdowns close at hand Sysadmins in search of blood For those who caused this bandwidth flood And whosoever took the risk But failed to make an extra disc Must face the Bastard Op from Hell And lose his access to the shell The best of Linux now is here To kill the FUD and strike with fear The hearts of those who steal your rights And hide their code far from your sight Closed source takes away what's yours But you'll never shake the horror Until you taste the freedom and The power of FEDORA! [*Note: Some Live images are actually too big for CDs and require DVDs or USB storage for use. Refer to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CustomSpins for more information.] = WANT FEDORA? GET FEDORA! = To get Fedora, visit: http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora = WHAT'S NEW? = To read about all the latest changes, visit: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/ For a summary, visit: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/8/ReleaseSummary = JOIN US! = To find ways you can help and participate, visit: http://fedoraproject.org/join-fedora *) This mail was brought to you by the Fedora Docs team. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours? signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
