Awesome.
by Greg DeKoenigsberg
As some of you may know, Shadowman from Red Hat Magazine is a very good
friend of mine. He passed this along to me to share with the Fedora
community. :)
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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 23:37:50 -0500
Subject: Ask Shadowman
Dear Shadowman,
I've got a wallpaper that started as a face drawn with ballpoint pen by my
2-1/2 year old daughter, Mia. I continued where she left off, adding a
fedora, shadows, veins (in the eyeballs), a cigarette, a tie and a jacket.
Then I scanned it with xsane and used the gimp to add a nice background.
Finally, I ripped a Fedora logo from a Fedora Core 5 Test 3 virtual
machine (I used gftp to 'send' it to the PC running the virtual machine
and added it to the wallpaper with the gimp). Anyway, I have a feeling
you'd like it. Where can I send it, so that it can be included with the
next release of Fedora Core?
The wallpaper is located at http://www.miabrown.com/images/fedora01a.jpg
Steve Brown
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18 years, 3 months
Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Fedora LiveCD build#002
by Chitlesh GOORAH
On 3/16/06, J. Hartline <jasperhartline(a)adelphia.net> wrote:
> Fedora Core 5 final is going to be released on the targeted March 20th date.
> Why not try to build a FC5 ISO, rather than a FC5 test 3 ISO with buggy
> packages that have updates?
I don't have FC5 iso yet.
This iso I have built on sunday.
but due to certain difficulties encountered with the upload , Filip
managed to make it possible for me to upload the iso last night.
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18 years, 3 months
Introducing Fedora Core 5
by Robert 'Bob' Jensen
Hi Marketing Project and Ambassadors,
I have finished the base of my Slide Show for my "Introducing Fedora
Core 5" presentation to my LUG. Much of it was based on the FC5 Release
notes. The target audience is mostly Administrators with some Red Hat
Linux or Fedora Core experience, be it good or bad. The slide show has
been uploaded to the Wiki, you can find a link on my Wiki Page or the
Presentations page. Please download it and give me feedback. This is my
first slide show so I hope I have done a good job, if not do tell me.
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Fedora Marketing Projects
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BobJensen
18 years, 3 months
Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Fedora LiveCD build#002
by Chitlesh GOORAH
On 3/16/06, J. Hartline <jasperhartline(a)adelphia.net> wrote:
> Well, not many people would have the FC5 final yet.
> That is besides the point of the question.
>
> The point of the question is why are you building and trying to
> distribute "90GB"
> of buggy software packages that have updates from a development tree,
> rather than build something that is
> deemed stable/fixed. Do you know how many of those packages have had
> high priority security updates?
> Fedora Core 5 is right around the corner.
Well I start over again the discussion we had before:
Whether its FC5 or FC5T3, it doesn't matter that much, since FC5 is
not yet released.
1. it is a beta LiveCD release in English that many ambassadors requested to me
2. to know what features are lacking in our livecds:
e.g. eject upon reboot/halt , autologin .....
3. WE CANT MAKE A FEDORA OFFICIAL LIVECD ALL A SUDDEN
we have to know what is the FEDORA COMMUNITY demanding ?
4. prepare SUITABLE materials for Fedora Ambassadors and add THEIR
favorite packages (we have to know all these)
.....................
Mether, did explain last time on Livecd list i think
Chitlesh
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18 years, 3 months
First look: Fedora Core 5
by Rahul Sundaram
Hello Bruce Byfield,
http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/03/08/2321254
Thank you for taking the time to review Fedora Core 5 (test 2) and I
would like to offer my feedback and comments on the review . My first
reaction to seeing this title is confusion over a review about a release
that hasnt been made yet. It would been much better to clarify upfront
that you are reviewing the second test release. Anaconda not listing
reisferfs or other filesystems besides Ext3/ext2 by default is by design
since these are not supported by the Fedora project and the provision to
install Fedora on other filesystems are only provided for facilitating
easy migration. The review says that Anaconda has a long standing
problem that crashes if the CD requires cleaning. However I havent run
into problem myself. It would be good if you can file a bug report in
http://bugzilla.redhat.com regarding this to verify and fix this issue.
Desktop and software selection
The review notes that SELinux slows down GNOME by 60% and this claim is
unsubstantiated in the absence of any benchmarks. The second test
release had various debugging options which helped find and fix various
bugs during the development cycle. An example of such a analysis from
Dave Jones, Fedora Kernel maintainer at Red Hat can be found at
http://kernelslacker.livejournal.com/35270.html. It is very likely that
you have seen a slowdown trigged by such debugging patches. Various
SELinux performance improvements have also been merged during the
comparatively long development cycle of Fedora Core 5.
Fedora Core 5 does not have XFCE which is only provided in the Fedora
Extras repository. KDE and XFCE are not branded to look like GNOME in
Fedora. XFCE and KDE uses BlueCurve while GNOME uses the new Cairo based
Clearlooks theme as an example of the differences between them.
We do not have detailed performance comparisons between GCJ and Sun
Java yet since the current development is focused on completeness and
coverage over the standard API in preference to tweaking the
performance but if there are significant differences, do let the Fedora
Java development team
(http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-java-list) know
about it.
Sabayon and Alacarte is offered in Fedora Extras repository though
Alacarte is not part of GNOME 2.14 as claimed in the review. Festival,
drivers for wacom project and ruby are not new to Fedora Core 5 and have
been part of every Fedora release. Ruby does not replace GCJ based
applications either.
Yum does not replace RPM as claimed in the review and only complements
it by adding a automatic dependency resolving tool which uses RPM
internally. Pirut only provides a timer with a ability to confirm
immediately when there is a additional dependency that is required to
update or install a package and does not hide dependencies.
Security and Administration
system-config-kickstart is not a new tool and again has been in every
release of Fedora and Pirut does list dependencies when required which
you have even noted earlier as a annoyance.
Recommendations
The system specifications indicated in the release notes are targeted
towards the default package profile and any distribution providing the
latest versions of GNOME and KDE would require a very similar
configuration to perform well and this does not differ very from from
the latest version of Debian or Ubuntu. Fedora Core along with extras
offers a choice of several thousand packages and can be tailored to fit
the beginner or the super geek.
It would help avoid several of these factual mistakes and provide more
details if you can contact me during your review period on future
occasions. Thank you for your interest in Fedora.
--
Rahul
18 years, 3 months
Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Fedora LiveCD build#002
by J. Hartline
Filip Tsachev wrote:
>On 16/03/06, J. Hartline <jasperhartline(a)adelphia.net> wrote:
>
>
>>The point of the question is why are you building and trying to
>>distribute "90GB"
>>of buggy software packages that have updates from a development tree,
>>rather than build something that is
>>deemed stable/fixed. Do you know how many of those packages have had
>>high priority security updates?
>>Fedora Core 5 is right around the corner.
>>
>>
>I think it's clear that it's a test release, I also think we all use
>this test release for ourselves? 20th or March will not be the end of
>updates...to the distibution, I see it as pretty much the same if
>you're distributing Fedora 5test3 installation/live media, no?
>
>
No. Test releases are for testers, hence "test 1,2,3".
You can't update LiveCD media.
Plus, test 3 was released a looooong time ago.
Fedora Core 5 should be here in about 4 days, give or take a day
depending on your timezone.
J. Hartline
18 years, 3 months
Fedora LiveCD build#002
by Chitlesh GOORAH
Hai there,
Thanks to FilipTsachev, there WILL BE (in the next few hours) another
beta Fedora Core 5 Test 3 based LiveCD available for download.
JonFautley said the (previous) ISO downloads had totaled over 90GB in
about 5 days. :) Isn't it GREAT ?? :) Thanks again Jon.
This is the (long awaited) english version :)
About the Live CD
The liveCD is gnome-based only.
ISO size: 671.4 MB
License: same as Fedora Core 5 Test 3
Some New Features:
* Choice of keyboard layout, netconfig and timezone
* some new Boot Parameters
(As RahulSundaram suggested before, "test" is renamed to "debug").
* boot param to boot from harddisk
* 2 Users : root and fedora both having "livecd" as password
* For user "root", marketing materials on the desktop which might be
helpful for Fedora Ambassadors.: (handouts (en,fr),a presentation of
gregdek, 2 videos of DavidNalley)
* use of splash.lss of the FC5T3 DVD
*using F{1,4,5} keys to describe Fedora Project, the License and
Optional commands
* specify that this is a Fedora Core Live CD during the booting process
* Among the default FC5T3 packages, the following packages have been
updated : firefox (1.5.5.0.1-7), fedora-logos (1.1.4.2-1),
redhat-artwork (0.241-1) and redhat-menus (6.7.5-1)
Once again, Im pointing out that not all packages could be included in
this Livecd :(
Ill update the builds wiki later on, once I get myself some sleep :)
Filip will give the link later on.
Ambassadors should not forget this
=============================
For user "root", marketing materials on the desktop which might be
helpful for Fedora Ambassadors.: (handouts (en,fr),a presentation of
gregdek, 2 videos of DavidNalley)
=============================
Visit my blog http://clunixchit.blogspot.com
and
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ChitleshGoorah/builds
Cheers,
Chitlesh GOORAH
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18 years, 3 months
Re: Fedora LiveCD build#002
by J. Hartline
Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
> On 3/16/06, J. Hartline <jasperhartline(a)adelphia.net> wrote:
>
>
>> Fedora Core 5 final is going to be released on the targeted March
>> 20th date.
>> Why not try to build a FC5 ISO, rather than a FC5 test 3 ISO with buggy
>> packages that have updates?
>>
>
>
> I don't have FC5 iso yet.
> This iso I have built on sunday.
> but due to certain difficulties encountered with the upload , Filip
> managed to make it possible for me to upload the iso last night.
>
>
Well, not many people would have the FC5 final yet.
That is besides the point of the question.
The point of the question is why are you building and trying to
distribute "90GB"
of buggy software packages that have updates from a development tree,
rather than build something that is
deemed stable/fixed. Do you know how many of those packages have had
high priority security updates?
Fedora Core 5 is right around the corner.
J. Hartline
18 years, 3 months
press release in CVS
by Karsten Wade
cvs.fedora:/cvs/docs/marketing-content/FC5-press-release/
make all produces a PDF and POT file. PDF is all that is working right
now for output. The .pot file is what is needed for translation.
Paul and I are working on the quality of the PDF (via the XSL). Changes
are forthcoming.
Uh ... what next?
Unless anyone is going to call fowl ... such as ask why the release name
is not mentioned ... then this is the absolute last chance.
Otherwise, in an hour or so I'm going to tag it for translation.
Right?
- Karsten
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18 years, 3 months
Linux.com - First look: Fedora Core 5
by Luya Tshimbalanga
http://distrocenter.linux.com/distrocenter/06/03/08/2321254.shtml?tid=107
This "review" is a questionnable because the author did not mention
what test version of Fedora Core 5 is used and there are blabant mistakes such as:
"For those who prefer, FC5 also offers the KDE 3.5 and XFce 4 window managers. Both are branded and tweaked to resemble GNOME as much as possible."
He failed to mention that KDE 3.5 is available on Core and XFCE4 on Extras.
"FC5 includes recent versions of standard software, including Firefox 1.5 and the GIMP 2.2.10. Instead of Sun Java, it installs the GCC 4.1 and tools built with it, such as Eclipse. This decision allows FC5 to use only free software, but often at the cost of slower performance. In OpenOffice.org, for instance, Java-based features such as the basic document wizards open so slowly that you may conclude that the program has frozen before anything happens."
Fedora Core never includes proprietairy applications.
"FC5 is selective about the GNOME applications it includes. Although the usual panel applications and utilities are installed by default, along with accessibility programs such as Gnopernicus, many standard GNOME applications are not, including the AbiWord word processor and Gnumeric spreadsheet. Even some programs new to GNOME 2.14 are excluded, such as Pessulus, Sabayon, and the AlaCarte Menu Editor. In fact, Pessulus, for one, is not even in the package repositories."
Abiword duplicated OO.o functionally which is why it is available on Extras repository. Sabayon was already
available on FC4 before Gnome 2.13. AlaCarte Menu Editor was formely known as SMEG. Pessulus duplicated functionnality from GConf (correct me on that one) and it is a matter for someone to bring it on Extras.
There are more but comments already addressed them.
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