F9 Beta release announcement
by Jesse Keating
Ah, spring... when a young penguin's fancy lightly turns to thoughts
of... Beta testing! Yes, spring has sprung, and so has the Beta release
of Fedora 9!
The Beta release is the point at which we really want and need the wider
community's help with testing. Beta is a point of much greater
stability in Fedora's development branch, but some fixes continue to
occur to improve usability, performance, and stability. This release is
great for early adopters and Linux enthusiasts! The Fedora 9 Beta boots
on the majority of systems, and gives you an idea of how the final
Fedora 9 will look and feel. Most importantly, we absolutely need
community assistance to check features and provide feedback and bug
reports, to help ensure that Fedora 9 is our best release ever.
Some highlights of Fedora 9 Beta:
* GNOME 2.22, with new features like a helpful world time clock, better
file system performance, security improvements, power management at the
login screen, the ability to dynamically configure displays, better
Bluetooth integration, improved podcast support, and many other
enhancements
* KDE 4.0.2, which includes a brand new desktop and panel with many new
concepts, integrated desktop search, a brand new visual style called
Oxygen, a new multimedia API called Phonon, and a new hardware
integration framework called Solid -- all integrated by Fedora's KDE SIG
* Firefox 3 Beta 5, featuring a native look and feel, desktop
integration, the new Places that replaces bookmarks, and a reworked
address bar
* Support for resizing ext2, ext3 and NTFS partitions during install
* Support for creating and installing to encrypted filesystems
* PackageKit, a cross-distribution package management solution with a
complete yum backend, designed to unify different distributions'
software management with the latest technologies
* Kernel 2.6.25-rc5
And numerous other improvements and enhancements.
The full release notes are available at:
http://fedoraproject.org/f9-beta-relnotes
Getting it:
===========
The Beta release is available through the following download methods:
* (recommended) BitTorrent, an efficient and easy distributed
file-sharing system
* Jigdo, an alternative system that reduces download size in some
situations, or for people who can't use BitTorrent
* direct download from a mirror location near you
To download, visit:
http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease
More Information:
=================
For more information regarding the Beta release, please visit the
release notes page:
http://fedoraproject.org/f9-beta-relnotes
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Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
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16 years, 2 months
Evolution crashes by pushing Print button
by Mike Chambers
On an x86_64 system, when in evolution, highlight an email message, with
preview pane but don't open it. Hit the print button, evolution crashes
or at least closes/exits. Open it back up, and the preview pane is gone
for that folder.
Anyone else seen this?
evolution-webcal-2.21.92-1.fc9.x86_64
evolution-data-server-2.22.0-3.fc9.x86_64
evolution-bogofilter-2.22.0-2.fc9.x86_64
evolution-help-2.22.0-2.fc9.x86_64
evolution-2.22.0-2.fc9.x86_64
--
Mike Chambers
Fedora Project - Ambassador, Bug Zapper, Tester, User, etc..
mikec302(a)fedoraproject.org
16 years, 2 months
KDE-SIG weekly report (13/2008)
by Sebastian Vahl
This is a report of the weekly KDE-SIG-Meeting with a summary of the
topics that were discussed. If you want to add a comment please reply
to this email or add it to the related meeting page.
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= Weekly KDE Summary =
Week: 13/2008
Time: 2008-03-25 16:00 UTC
Meeting page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2008-03-25
Meeting log:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2008-03-25?action=AttachF...
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= Participants =
- GeraldCox
- RexDieter
- SebastianVahl
- ThanNgo
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= Agenda =
topics to discuss:
- Summary of problems in Fedora 9 Beta
- Artwork: KDM Theme and KSplash
- No administrator mode in systemsettings (KDE Bug #151669) [1]
- kickoff vs simple menu?
recent bugs:
#438547: nas: pkg split
#436579: apidocs subpackage should be noarch
= Summary =
o Summary of problems in Fedora 9 Beta:
- Due to the slip of the Beta release there are no known reports yet.
o Artwork: KDM Theme and KSplash:
- There will be no GDM theme for Fedora 9 which we can adopt because of some
significant changes to gdm.
- So if we want to use a Fedora themed KDM we need some help from artists.
- Otherwise the upstream default theme (circles) will be the default for
Fedora 9.
o No administrator mode in systemsettings:
- This issue was reported several times on the mailing lists.
- It is known upstream but not fixed in KDE 4.0.2.
- ThanNgo will check if it is fixed in svn trunk.
o kickoff vs. simple menu?:
- Kickoff is not very usable with low resolutions and also some users
complained about it on the mailing lists.
- The proposal here is to make the simple menu the default menu in Fedora 9 to
simulate the old kicker style menu.
- The KDE SIG is undecided in this question.
- So we will bring the discussion to fedora-devel-list (or
fedora-desktop-list) for wider audience.
o #438547: nas: pkg split:
- The "Network Sound Daemon" (nas) is always started by default in a default
installation.
- Parts from nasd (%{_libdir}/libaudio.so.?) are required for arts and
qt4-x11/-doc/-devel.
- It seems that no package in Fedora is using nasd.
- The proposal is to split %{_libdir}/libaudio.so.* into a nas-libs sub
package to fulfill the requirements for arts and qt4.
- So nas (the package and the sound daemon nasd) itself will not be installed
by default but still will be available in the repository.
- Once qt-4.4 will be in rawhide, nas support should be dropped.
- But the final decision is up to FrankBüttner, the maintainer of nas.
o 36579: apidocs subpackage should be noarch:
- The size of kdelibs-apidocs is quite huge (about 250 megs) and the package
is available for each architecture.
- Every single update will also create an arch-dependent update of the apidocs
sub package.
- The solutions for this could be:
* using the same hooks as the kernel-doc package
* maintaining two SRPMS, one arch specific and one noarch
* get rpm to create noarch sub packages
- RexDieter will explore the implementation of building from a single source
(like kernel-doc).
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= Next Meeting =
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2008-04-01
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= Links =
[1] http://bugs.kde.org/151669
= Buglist =
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/438547
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/436579
16 years, 2 months
Updates using idle bandwidth
by Sunil Ghai
Hi,
We currently have yum-updatesd to check for the updated packages
automatically. Even to download and install them, if marked. Yum has a
throttle option which fixes the upper limit of maximum bandwidth usage. How
about fixing the upper limit dynamically depending upon the current usage of
bandwidth? i.e to download the packages using idle bandwidth.
Those who have limited or slow Internet connection in many developing
countries, need to download packages without feeling noticeable changes in
other applications. e.g in browsing or downloading some another important
file. This way updates would be ready to install without suffering slow
internet connection meanwhile.
I am interested in implementing this, but problem is this would need the
support of repository server(s) to transfer files asynchronously. Will it be
possible?
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SummerCoding/2008/Ideas#head-f245bfb86b1ec5...
Regards,
Sunil Ghai
16 years, 2 months
Firefox (still) not printing selection
by Henrique Junior
Hello, folks.
I'm sad to see that an old and classical bug of Firefox is still
present in F9 beta. This bug was related in Bugzilla [1] and came over
all the time affecting Firefox since 1.5.0.7.
The problem seems to be in the firefox-2.0-pango-printing.patch, and
after excluding this patch in the .spec, Firefox is printing selection
again.
The same bug affects Firefox and Seamonkey and is present too in
CentOS and Red Hat.
I'm only an ambassador, not a developer, so, excuse me if I'm wrong to
accuse firefox-2.0-pango-printing.patch. The fact, anyway, is that the
bug is still here.
In hope to be useful
[1] - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=221336
--
Henrique "LonelySpooky" Junior
-------------------------------------------------------------
"In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?!"
16 years, 2 months
Upstream error reporting
by Philip Ashmore
I just filed
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438269
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but isn't there a policy in place for Fedora to
be the "point of contact" for upstream bug reports so that
those wishing to improve the Fedora experience don't have to create
multiple accounts with multiple upstream sources in order to report a bug?
Philip Ashmore
16 years, 2 months
GnuTLS -- certtool
by Jonathan Steffan
Has certtool stopped working for anyone else?
It seems to be broken on Centos 5.1, Fedora 8 both x86_64 and i386.
>From the manpage:
To create a private key, run:
$ certtool --generate-privkey --outfile key.pem
This just sits there. I've had one generation run work with selinux in
permissive mode, but not consistently.
certtool is found in the gnutls-utils package. If anyone else can test
and help diagnose why this is broken, that would be awesome. I've tested
with both gnutls-1.4.1-2 and gnutls-1.6.3-2.fc8 using the matching
gnutls-utils package.
--
Jonathan Steffan
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Fedora Unity - http://fedoraunity.org/
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16 years, 2 months
Plan for tomorrows (20080327) FESCO meeting
by Brian Pepple
Please find below the list of topics that are likely to come up in the
next FESCo meeting that is scheduled for tomorrow, Thursday at 17:00 UTC
in #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.org (Note change in time due to US
DST):
/topic FESCo meeting -- Any objection to this week's report from FPC at
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-March/msg02169.html
/topic FESCo-Meeting -- Final Release Schedule (Slip in conjunction w/
latest beta slip?) - all
/topic FESCo-Meeting -- Features Completion -
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/FeatureList - poelcat
/topic FESCo meeting -- Free discussion around Fedora
You want something to be discussed? Send a note to the list in reply to
this mail and I'll add it to the schedule. You can also propose topics
in the meeting while it is in the "Free discussion around Fedora" phase.
If your name/nick is on above list please update the status on the
Extras schedule pages in the wiki ahead of the meeting. That way all the
other FESCo members and interested contributors know what up ahead of
the meeting. And we will avoid long delays in the meeting -- those often
arise if someone describes the recent happenings on a topic directly in
the meeting while all the others have to wait for his slow typing...
Later,
/B
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Brian Pepple <bpepple(a)fedoraproject.org>
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BrianPepple
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16 years, 2 months
llvm-gcc status?
by Colorado Rob
Hi guys,
I see that we have llvm packages in Fedora 9. Is there any work being done
to get the llvm-gcc and llvm-g++ subpackages to build with GCC-4.3 by either
upstream or the Fedora package maintainer?
Thanks,
Rob
16 years, 2 months
