November 2009 - india - Fedora Mailing-Lists

[in the news] Fedora 12 to remove unprivileged package installation *and* Saving the "Best" for Last

by susmit shannigrahi

http://lwn.net/Articles/362986/ repeats Stickster's announcement. and a good one is here: "It's been quite a wave of new Linux distributions over the past month or so, but with the release of Fedora 12 (Constantine) this week, we have finally made it through. I have intentionally chosen what is likely to be a controversial title this time, but the basis for my choice is rather simple. Fedora 12 is the only one of this series of releases which has loaded successfully on absolutely every computer I own." http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014494o-2000498448b,00.htm -- Regards, Susmit. ============================================= http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:susmit ============================================= Sent from Calcutta, WB, India

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[in the news] Users howl as Fedora 12 gives root to unwashed masses

by susmit shannigrahi

"Fedora users are revolting against a change introduced in the latest version of the operating system that allows the installation of thousands of software titles without an administrative password. Critics say the move diminishes the security of machines running the open-source OS by giving unprivileged users what amounts to administrative control. That could allow lower-level employees to install software that's not been approved by administrators, or worse, to gain root access by installing an application with a known security vulnerability and then intentionally exploiting it." http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/19/fedora_12_root_imbroglio/ -- Regards, Susmit. ============================================= http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:susmit ============================================= Sent from Calcutta, WB, India

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Re: [in the news] Users howl as Fedora 12 gives root to unwashed masses

by Paul W. Frields

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 08:42:25AM +0400, Amit Caleechurn wrote: > Now that an update has been announced for packagekit, will this update be > applied to official ISOs or will users be expected to apply the update > themselves or disable this behavior if they don't have the machine > connected to the net? There is no way to issue new official ISOs that does not create extreme confusion and problems for many users as well. Users will need to apply the update themselves, or use the documentation that's been provided in the updated Release Notes to get the alternate behavior they want. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug

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Re: [in the news] Users howl as Fedora 12 gives root to unwashed masses

by Rahul Sundaram

On 11/20/2009 10:12 AM, Amit Caleechurn wrote: > Now that an update has been announced for packagekit, will this update > be applied to official ISOs or will users be expected to apply the > update themselves or disable this behavior if they don't have the > machine connected to the net? An update will be issued. No plans to roll out new ISO images. If you are not connected to the net, you don't have to worry about issue that much, anyway. Rahul

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Fwd from the announce list: PackageKit change

by Ankur Sinha

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Fedora 12 release contained changes in the default PackageKit behavior that allow installation of packages by users in cases where: * the user is logged in on the local console, and * is installing packages signed with a previously trusted key, and * is using a previously configured and trusted repository After more discussion and thought, though, the package maintainers have posted to the fedora-devel-list mailing list agreeing to provide an update to Fedora 12's PackageKit. The update will require local console users to enter the root password to install new software packages. Details on the changes are found here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-November/msg01445.... - -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFLBgR2rNvJN70RNxcRAgUBAKCGi4o7oGzaXnK+jO6CrAehB9ZM6QCfdHrg mOKO0W1loVJWbo8GMYBtRJI= =x5vQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list

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F12 almost out: What are your plans for a release event??

by Ankur Sinha

hi, I just checked up the Fedora Ambassadors India page. We have a *staggering* 112 ambassadors !! :D So, with F12 out in about 30 hours, I wanted to hold a meeting @#fedora-india where hopefully *all* these ambassadors would get together to discuss their plans for release events? Such a meeting was already convened @#fedora-ambassadors for APAC[1] (headed by David Ramsey). I was hoping for a meeting more India specific. Please decide a good time. People who'd like to head the meeting should please raise their hands. How's 21st Saturday or 22nd Sunday for everyone? btw, do we have meetbot functioning on #fedora-india? regards, Ankur [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-ambassadors-list/2009-November/msg...

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A report on FOSS GN 09 event at Engineering College Bikaner(Rajasthan)

by shreekant bohra

Hello everyone I am Shree Kant Bohra, a member of the team which organized a four day FOSS event at Engineerng College Bikaner <http://www.ecb.ac.in> during 28-31st October 2009. I would like to thank Fedora India Community for providing guidance and goodies for the event and in particular I would like to thank Rahul Sundaram, Sankarsan and Susmit who despite of lack of proper pre planning of the event managed to provide us with total support. We had talk on F12 features, SELinux and a Fedora Installfest during the FOSS event. We have compiled a report of the event and would like to share it with others. Please Download report from here.<http://sakshama.org/documents/foss_gn09_report.pdf> Thanks -- Shree Kant Bohra Let the Source be open Blog: insideme.geekybuddha.org

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[Fwd: Re: [VGLUG] Re: supported on school to setup their infrastructure for 12 standard lab setup]

by ElectroMech

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [VGLUG] Re: supported on school to setup their infrastructure for 12 standard lab setup Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:58:26 +0530 From: Nilesh J. Vaghela <electromech(a)electromech.info> Reply-To: electromech(a)electromech.info Organization: ElectroMech To: vglug(a)googlegroups.com Dear Mr. Pankaj Shukla, Thanks for your response. It encourage our community to support more school. Even we would like if you can suggest some of the school where we can extend our community support. On 11/18/2009 09:53 AM, pankaj shukla wrote: > નમસ્કાર, > નિલેશજી, > અમારી શાળામાં આપે કરેલ લિનક્ષનું સર્વર ઈન્સ્ટોલેશન તથા નેટવર્કની > કનેકટીવીટીથી સ્ટુટન્ટ્સને ખુબજ ફાયદો થયો, > લિનક્ષ ઓપરેટીંગ સિસ્ટમ કેવી રીતે સેટ કરવી તેની સમસ્યા હતી, > આપના ગ્રુપમાં જોડાયેલ છું. અને લિનક્ષ બાબત ઘણું શિખવા માગું છું. > કેટલીક સમયની મર્યાદાને કારણે બધુ શીખવું મુશ્કેલ છે. પંરતું જ્યાં જ્યા > અટકીશ ત્યાં આપની પાસે શિખવાનો પ્રયત્ન કરીશ. > આપના ગ્રુપની કામગીરી ખુબજ સરસ છે. > ગ્રુપમાં મારા તરફથી કોઈ હેલ્પની જરૂરીયાત હોય તો મને જાણ કરશો. > મહેનત કરીશું. > નેટ પર તો મળીશું જ, > રૂબરુ પણ આવો. > બધાને ગાંધીનગર મુલાકાત લેવાનું આમંત્રણ આપું છું. > ઘણા બધા મિત્રોએ અમારી લેબમાં હેલ્પ કરવા ઈચ્છા જાહેર કરી અમને ખુબજ આનંદ > થયો. > અમારી જરૂરીયાત સમયે આપને કહીશું. આપની અનુકુળતાએ મદદ કરશો. > આભાર > > પંકજ શુક્લ > લેબ ઈન્ચાર્જ, > શેઠ સી.એમ.હાઈસ્કૂલ એન્ડ હાયર સેકન્ડરી સ્કુલ > સર્વ વિદ્યાલય કેમ્પસ, > ઘ-૬ની નજીક, સેક્ટર-૨૩, ગાંધીનગર > ફોન-૦૭૯-૨૩૨૪૮૧૨૪ > મો-૯૪૨૬૨૪૨૧૨૯ > > > Thanks again for you positive response. -- Nilesh Vaghela ElectroMech Redhat Channel Partner and Training Partner Ahmedabad: 404,Maulik Arcad,Nr. Mansi cross Road,Satellite Rd Baroda : 25, The Emperor, Fatehgunj www.electromech.info -- Nilesh Vaghela ElectroMech Redhat Channel Partner and Training Partner Ahmedabad: 404,Maulik Arcad,Nr. Mansi cross Road,Satellite Rd Baroda : 25, The Emperor, Fatehgunj www.electromech.info

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Announcing Fedora 12

by Rahul Sundaram

Hi The latest and greatest Fedora release ever is out. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-November/msg000... yum-presto by default, 3D support for ATI cards via a free and open source driver, Moblin, GNOME Shell, hybrid live images, open source Broadcom firmware, PackageKit plugins and SELinux sandbox are among my favorites this release. Go grab it! Rahul

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Ambassador self introduction

by Bhargav Prasanna

Hi all, I've requested to become a Fedora Ambassador. A short introduction about myself follows: I'm Bhargav Prasanna. I'm doing my pre-final year in electrical and electronics engineering at Meenakshi Sundararajan Engineering College, Chennai. I'm 19 years old and I've been using Fedora since sulphur. The other operating systems I use extensively include Arch Linux and Debian. I've been involved in small scale conversion (if that is what you can call it) of people including my classmates, batchmates, juniors and other friends from proprietary OSs to F/OSS OSs which mainly include Fedora, and (K)Ubuntu. Apart from that, I've authored a two bugfixes for GNOME (both of which are yet to be committed and are minor anyway). I hope that becoming an ambassador would help me help my friends and the community of people who do not know anything about F/OSS better and I'm looking forward to having a good time working with Fedora. Bhargav Prasanna

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