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Fedora Weekly News Issue 48
by Thomas Chung 29 May '06

29 May '06

Welcome to our issue number 48 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_48 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 New logo guidelines Available Now 2 Application for Google's Summer of Code Ended 3 Invitation to Fedora Documentation Translation 4 Puplet (Yum Applet) anyone? 5 OLPC laptop prototype 6 Fedora Core 5 Review with Screenshots 7 My desktop OS: Fedora Core 5 8 Google releases Picasa for Linux 9 Fedora Weekly Reports 2006-05-22 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!"

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Fedora Weekly News Issue 47
by Thomas Chung 22 May '06

22 May '06

Welcome to our issue number 47 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_47 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 Red Hat Magazine May 2006 2 Changing the way that Development lands 3 New ticketing system for the Fedora Project 4 Fedora Board chair looks ahead 5 Documentation leadership grows 6 The gift that keeps on giving 7 Unofficial FAQ Update: 2006-05-11 8 Phoronix: Fedora Rawhide 2006-05-16 9 Fedora Weekly Reports 2006-05-15 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!"

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Development push delayed tonight
by Jesse Keating 17 May '06

17 May '06

The automated development push has been disabled for tonight (tomorrow morning). This is so that I can push it by hand and introduce the new layout. Specifically so that I can fix things if they break when pushing the new layout. Target arrival of the development tree on the mirrors is 11:00am Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora

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Fedora Core package cleanup project
by Will Woods 17 May '06

17 May '06

I'm announcing the start of a new QA project, and I'm asking for your help. In the past, Core packages have not been held to the same standards as Extras. We want to fix this! We're starting by cleaning up the spec files so that Core packages can all be built using Mock. (If you aren't familiar with Mock, it's a cool RPM build tool that we use to build Fedora Extras.) This is where you come in: We need people to attempt Mock builds of Fedora Core packages, and file bugs when they find packages that don't build. Doing so will earn you the thanks and respect of your peers, but as an added incentive we're going to give away free stuff (!) to people who help out. Filing a bug on a broken package will earn you one Karma Point. If you include a patch that makes that package build successfully, you'll get five Karma Points. These will be redeemable for cool stuff from the Red Hat Cool Stuff Store (at an exchange rate to be determined once we figure out how much stuff we're actually allowed to give away :) For more info, check out: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/FixBuildRequires Ok? OK! Let's get testin'! -w

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Changing the way that Development lands
by Jesse Keating 17 May '06

17 May '06

Much to the same tune as how I changed the way FC lands on mirrors, I'd like to change how development lands. Development would land much in the same way as Core, it would just be missing some files that Core does. Please see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewDevelopmentLayout for detailed information. Questions or comments should be directed to me. -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora

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Unofficial FAQ Update: 2006-05-11
by Max Kanat-Alexander 16 May '06

16 May '06

Hey out there, Fedora Land. :-) Since the Fedora Core 5 update of the Unofficial Fedora FAQ we've had various bits of feedback and improvements to the FAQ. So today we have some updates to the FAQ for you: http://www.fedorafaq.org/ This is mostly a "polish" update, making everything shiny and bright, and revising the instructions to work the best possible. We have an updated yum configuration, updated PDF instructions, and improved a *lot* of little things throughout the FAQ. Also, we have some translations that are ready for FC5, now: German, French, Polish, Portuguese, and Vietnamese! I hope everybody enjoys the update! If you have any feedback, please let me know: http://www.fedorafaq.org/contribute/ -Max -- http://www.insiderfaq.com/ The Insider FAQ: Linux Made Simple.

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Fedora Weekly News Issue 46
by Thomas Chung 15 May '06

15 May '06

Welcome to our issue number 46 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_46 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 Fedora Core package cleanup project 2 The Fedora Project Board Update 2006-05-09 3 Dan Walsh: SELinux Tutorials 4 Dee-Ann LeBlanc: Mono-Based Applications in FC5 5 India lays down 'open' challenge 6 ATI: Open v. Closed Drivers 7 Updated FC5 Network Install 8 Henrys Fedora Core 5 Install Guide 9 Fedora Weekly Reports 2006-05-08 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!"

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fedora board update
by Max Spevack 10 May '06

10 May '06

I'd like to thank everyone for their patience as we allowed the final community member of the Fedora Project Board to get all of the proper approvals from his company before making the announcement. That's been taken care of, and I'd like to officially announce that Matt Domsch is the "mystery man" whose name has been in the Fedora Board meeting minutes. Matt Domsch is a Linux Software Architect for Dell. He has been developing, debugging, testing, and fixing aspects of Linux since 1999. He maintains DKMS and efibootmgr userspace apps, edd, efivars and ppp_mppe kernel modules, and has contributed to the maintenance of many other kernel modules. Matt maintains several packages in Fedora Extras. Matt was a member of the 2004 and 2005 Ottawa Linux Symposium Program Committee. Matt holds a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a MS in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University. And just a a reminder, information about the Fedora Project Board and what we are doing is available on the wiki: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Meetings 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

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Fedora Weekly News Issue 45
by Thomas Chung 08 May '06

08 May '06

Welcome to our issue number 45 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_45 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 New mail list for package announcements 2 Announcing the Fedora Music list 3 Unofficial Fedora FAQ Updated for FC 5 4 Report from Linuxfest Northwest 5 The Increasing Importance of Community 6 Sporting goods retailer now sporting Linux 7 La-Z-Boy retailer revamps with Linux 8 The Board meeting summary 2006-05-02 9 Fedora Weeky Reports 2006-05-01 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!"

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Fedora Project Board meeting summary
by Max Spevack 07 May '06

07 May '06

All, Just wanted to let folks know that the summary of the most recent Fedora Project Board meeting is online. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Meetings/2006-05-02 Feel free to contact fedora-advisory-board(a)redhat.com with any questions or comments, or to write directly to me if you have private concerns. As always, the archives of fedora-advisory-board are fully public. In addition, we're working on getting a read-only copy of that list set up, so that people don't have to poll the archives to see what's going on. 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

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Announcing the Fedora Music list
by Greg DeKoenigsberg 07 May '06

07 May '06

It looks like we've got some critical mass forming here, so I figured I'd go ahead and announce it. We've been working with Fernando Lopez-Lezcano of Planet CCRMA, the popular Fedora-based music distribution, to see about bringing Planet CCRMA under the Extras umbrella. So feel free to join the conversation: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-music-list If you're interested, please bebop on by. :) --g ------------------------------------------------------------- Greg DeKoenigsberg || Fedora Project || fedoraproject.org Be an Ambassador || http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors -------------------------------------------------------------

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Unofficial Fedora FAQ Updated for Fedora Core 5
by Max Kanat-Alexander 04 May '06

04 May '06

Hi! Hello! Good day! :-) The Unofficial Fedora FAQ has been updated for Fedora Core 5! As always, you can find the FAQ at: http://www.fedorafaq.org/ This was a HUGE update, which involved re-writing the instructions for almost every question. Now we have working instructions for yum, nVidia cards, ATI cards, NTFS drives, and much, much more. In addition, I added two totally new questions: - How can I help out the Fedora Project? - How do I play DVDs in Fedora? As always, I really like your feedback! Feel free to send me your contributions! I'm always looking out for what questions are really frequently asked by the Fedora community. -Max -- http://www.insiderfaq.com/ The Insider FAQ: Linux Made Simple.

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New mail list for package announcements.
by Jesse Keating 02 May '06

02 May '06

As we continue to integrate Fedora subprojects into the main Fedora infrastructure, the need for a common point of package update information became clear. At the same time, it became clear that fedora-announce was not the proper place for this. To resolve these issues, we've created 'fedora-package-announce(a)redhat.com' email list. This list will serve as an announcement point for package announcements for potentially all Fedora sub-projects. If you would like to receive announcements of package updates, you will need to subscribe to this list: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-announce Because this list can be used by many subprojects, we will be setting up filters that can be used to allow users to only get announcements they care about. Currently we have filters setup for Fedora Core 3, 4, and 5 package announcements. These announcements are the only ones that will currently be sent to this list, however Fedora Extras and Fedora Legacy could begin sending soon, and we will setup filters for their announcements as well. When you first subscribe, you will receive all announcements made. You can use the membership configuration screen to adjust what announcements you wish to get. These options are near the bottom of the configuration list. As some package announcements have already gone to this list, please check the archives if you think you've missed something. The archives can be found here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/ fedora-announce-list will continue to be used for important announcements regarding the Fedora project, such as Core releases and test releases, Fedora News updates, messages from Max and the board, etc... It will just no longer get package update mails. We're sorry for the inconvenience of having users subscribe on their own, but mass subscribing users to a list without their explicit consent could be considered spam. This is obviously something we would rather not do. -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora

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Fedora Weekly News Issue 44
by Thomas Chung 01 May '06

01 May '06

Welcome to our issue number 44 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_44 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 Fedora Package Announcement List Split 2 Fedora and Google's Summer of Code 3 vFUDCon: virtual FUDCon 4 Fedora Education: Development Focus 5 Linuxfest Northwest 2006 6 LinuxWorld Toronto 2006 Update 7 Building an updated Fedora Core 5 DVD 8 FC5 in Linux Magazine 9 Fedora Weeky Reports 2006-04-24 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!"

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