AMD 64 support
by Pete Bradbury
Will the fedora project support the AMD 64 processor?
20 years, 4 months
Triage and You: An experiment in publicly unfunded tracking bugs
by Jef Spaleta
Good Morning!
Picking up on the mustfix and shouldfix tracking bugs for cambridge.
I've create a public tracking bug for 'easyfix' bugreports that I hope
developers will find is a useful tool to get at low priority trivial
bugs they can work on in those oh-so-very-rare moments of free time.
The basic idea here is, instead of developers having to troll through
the bugzilla bugs they own looking for trivial bugs to fix or community
supplied patches that can be tested and applied. They can hopefully use
a query to this easyfix tracker and skip the time consuming step of
finding the easyfix bugs themselves. If you have 10 minutes for working
on low-priority stuff...I want to make it so you spend as little of that
10 minutes as possible searching for easy fixes or submitted patches.
I'd appreciate feedback as to whether or not this is going to be a
helpful tool for you to be more efficient at digging up some those
pesky low-priority bugs.
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109188
-jef"all this..and i've only had one cup of coffee today"spaleta
20 years, 4 months
Self-Introduction: Logan Rathbone
by Logan Rathbone
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Logan A. Rathbone~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~Mississauga, Ontario, Canada~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~University student - 1st year of studies in Economics~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~University of Toronto~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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~~My goals in the Fedora Project:~~
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There have been many myths surrounding Linux on the desktop. It is an extremely common perception of many people, namely those that have never parted from Microsoft's operating systems, that Linux is difficult to use. While many Linux users try day after day to dispell many of these myths, 99% of PCs are still running Windows. I believe that it is time for us to ask, "why?" Many Linux users today, especially those who are very experienced with Linux and computing in general, feel that the opinions of these users do not count. I believe that nothing could be farther from the truth. These users need to be convinced that the time for them to change their operating system is NOW.
However, while Linux is an operating system that is so superior to Windows in so many ways, there are several issues that need to be ironed out. In the case of what was previously Red Hat Linux and is now the Fedora Project, I believe that the issue is that of software installation. Red Hat started to address this problem fairly recently with their up2date tool. While the tool itself is wonderful, it is just a tool (as are yum, apt, etc. as well.) I feel that what Fedora needs at this point (among other things, of course) is a strong package repository, like what users of Debian have already. I actually switched from Red Hat to Debian because of that at one point. However, I returned in the other direction as soon as I heard about the Red Hat-Fedora merger. I am _not_ saying Fedora needs to become Debian. Debian lacks the professionalism that has always been sought by Red Hat distributions of Linux. In other words, I feel that Fedora users should have the best of bo!
th worlds -- a strong library (quality _and_ quantity) of software available, in the form of a yum repository (ie: rawhide) _and_ a professional, unique and sleek operating system that will make many home users of Windows take a run for their money.
I am a very recent adopter of Linux -- I started in June 2003, just a few short months ago. I know what it's like to be a Windows user, and I know what kind of software home users want. That is why I feel that it is my _duty_ to be a packager of supplementary software for the Fedora Project. When Fedora users are browsing the internet or IRC and hear about a cool new software package XYZ, they should be able to type "yum install XYZ" and have that package on their machine, without so much as a fuss. But of course, I and the other packagers would take legal issues into mind and only package software that complies with the legal entities of the Fedora Project.
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~Historical Qualifications~
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In truth, I have very few. But, one must start somewhere. I am quite heavily involved in certain aspects of the Ark Linux distribution (www.arklinux.org) and have done some minor package building (RPMs) as well as general community support. I believe that my one true qualification is the fact that I am still, at heart, a home PC user. I am not a power-user, I am not a programmer, and I am not by any means a developer. I am simply your average-Joe home computer user that knows how to build RPM packages. In the case of my role in this project, however, I feel that my lack of technical expertise can be seen as more of an asset and less a liability. Most Windows users that convert to Linux don't know about the 2 main desktop environments. They don't understand the concept of window managers, the kernel, bash and other shells, X, etc. To them, Linux is Linux is Linux; they want to try it because they've heard about how it is a more stable, more secure, and generally a be!
tter computing environment than Windows. I understand this mentality (I was there just last June, remember?) and I will certainly take it into account when selecting and building packages.
You should trust me for one reason, and for one reason only -- for the past months, I have been utterly compelled and even obsessed with the Linux operating system, and I have placed my entire trust in Linux and the Linux community. I have gone from distribution-to-distribution, each time more disappointed than the last. However, I have finally seen light at the end of the tunnel. That light is, of course, the Fedora Project.
I hope dearly that I will be permitted to contribute to this wonderful project,
Logan "Poprocks" Rathbone
[logan@localhost logan]$ gpg --fingerprint BF86D3F4
pub 1024D/BF86D3F4 2003-10-30 Logan Rathbone (Poprocks) <poprocks(a)linux.net>
Key fingerprint = AA14 D6F3 0F7B 650B 5E7C A588 33D8 77F7 BF86 D3F4
sub 2048g/296BEE8D 2003-10-30 [expires: 2008-10-28]
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20 years, 4 months
rawhide report: 20031105 changes
by Build System
Removed package openoffice.org
Removed package fedora-release
Removed package lm_sensors
Removed package apmd
Removed package memtest86
Removed package kon2
Removed package festival
Removed package lilo
Removed package pstack
Removed package mkbootdisk
Removed package redhat-lsb
Removed package hwcrypto
Removed package memprof
Removed package kernel-pcmcia-cs
Removed package emacspeak
Removed package awesfx
Updated Packages:
rpmdb-fedora-1-0.20031105
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20 years, 4 months
Redesign of Bugzilla.Redhat.com
by Steven Garrity
Just a quick note to acknowledge the fine redesign of the Redhat's
Bugzilla (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/).
The updated design makes nice use of CSS for simple and elegant tabs,
and also uses Bitstream Vera Sans as the default font.
I suspect this as Garrett's doing (http://www.linuxart.com/), but that's
just a guess. My regards to the designer, whoever it may have been.
Steven Garrity
20 years, 4 months
fedora DVD
by Pieter Eendebak
Hi all!
Would it be possible to create an iso image containing the complete fedora
distribution that can be burned onto a DVD disc?
I am not familiar with the structure of fedora packages and installation
discs but my guess is that I would not be that difficult. For me at least
it would be very convenient and I think in the near future this option will
be desired by more people.
thanks,
Pieter Eendebak
20 years, 4 months
Self-Introduction: Darryl Luff
by Darryl Luff
Full Name: Darryl Luff
Country, City: Australia, Canberra
Profession: IT Security/Consulting
Goals in Fedora: My aim is that packages for every program I use
regularly are in Fedora. I would be happy to do QA once I am really
familiar with the process.
Historical Qualifications: I have worked on many small software
projects since I started programming around 1984, but nothing huge. I've
contributed ad-hoc patches to open source software and documentation as
I've found bugs, and maintain the 'gtksql' and 'snakegully' projects on
Sourceforge. I have used Redhat Linux continuously since version 3.0.3
and been involved with the online community with BBS's, then Fidonet,
and now the internet. I started programming in assembler then went
(briefly) to C then 'upgraded' to Pascal and Java. For the past few
years I have unfortunately had to use C, although I still don't like it.
I also use Perl a lot. You shouldnt really trust me any more than you
trust anyone else, but I do appreciate the need for procedures and
documentation and why they are important in any project, especially
those with large groups of developers.
Good luck all!
[darryll@dad darryll]$ gpg --fingerprint 1B8FDF72
pub 1024D/1B8FDF72 2003-04-26 Darryl Luff <darryl(a)snakegully.nu>
Key fingerprint = AD43 1958 D755 8943 8CDD 3C79 1360 C6CF 1B8F DF72
sub 1024g/A2D1C621 2003-04-26 [expires: 2005-04-25]
20 years, 4 months
Disabling /tmp watch in RawHide
by Stan Bubrouski
Hey,
Over the last four years I have found and reported several
vulnerabilities in various apps that have use /tmp insecurely. A
great many of them were discovered by merely looking in /tmp
once a week or so at some of the files left behind.
By default you guys have tmpwatch turned on, and I think that in
RawHide and test builds this should be disabled so these kinds of
security bugs can be found easier before releases. Yes I know /tmp
can get messy with legitimate files (though most of the files left in
/tmp SHOULD NOT be there), however I think the benefits of disabling by
default on testing environments will get a great many more eyes spotting
general bugs with some program /tmp usage.
For instance I installed Fedora Core Test 3 release last weekend. I
turned off tmpwatch, and voila, without even trying I found 4 insecure
file uses between 3 packages. I did nothing to find these except ls
through my /tmp and then track down the offenders. I guess this is
probably something that will be debated, or shot down immediately, but
still I'm throwing it out there. Without tmpwatch people WILL notice
more insecure /tmp usage, even if by only the broken usages (i.e.
leaving the files behind). Any thoughts?
-sb
20 years, 4 months
universal bootloader and embedded linux are not working properly
by Hander Martin
Hello,
I'm setting up a new board and I use the universal bootloader and embedded
linux for this. I can boot the board with this programs, but there exists a
problem with the ethernet connection.
When I boot the universal bootloader, then start the embedded linux and then
call ifconfig with some parameters I don't get an ethernet connection. In
the output of the starting linux I get a mac adress like this:
00:00:00:00:00:00.
When I boot the universal bootloader and enter dhcp then I receive an
ethernet adress from my dhcp server. Then I start embedded linux and make an
ifconfig call for assigning an ip adress to my board then I get an ethernet
connection. In the output of the starting linux I get a valid mac adress.
I know, that this problem can also be a problem of the universal bootloader,
but I want to be sure about who is responsible for this malfunction.
if somebody knows a way to go around this problem and knows how to
automatically receive an ethernet connection I would be very thankful.
If somebody knows how to solve this problem or knows where the bug is I
would also be very thankful.
Thanks
Martin Hander
M.Hander(a)el-me.de
20 years, 4 months