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Fedora working with Seneca College
by Rahul Sundaram 21 May '08

21 May '08

Hi, http://lwn.net/Articles/283274/rss Digg It: http://digg.com/linux_unix/Fedora_working_with_Seneca_College Red Hat has announced a partnership with Seneca College wherein students will work with the Fedora project. "A new grant funds a liaison position within the School of Computer Studies to work with Fedora Project members to identify opportunities for student involvement and to guide students as they integrate into the community. This proven model was developed at Seneca and will be incorporated into several programs beginning with the Linux/Unix System Administration (LUX) program, an intense one-year graduate certificate. Fedora projects will be integrated into academic coursework, used as major projects, or funded through government grants." Rahul

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Fedora 9 Delivers Advanced Features to Community
by Rahul Sundaram 21 May '08

21 May '08

Hi, http://www.channeltimes.com/India/News/Fedora_9_Delivers_Advanced_Features_… "Paul Frields, Fedora project leader at Red Hat said, "Fedora has come a long way over the past few years with a broadening user base, influx of innovative ideas and a thriving community". Rahul

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Fedora 9 (Sulphur)
by Rahul Sundaram 20 May '08

20 May '08

Hi. http://www.techiemoe.com/tech/fedora9.htm "Using the default Gnome desktop, Fedora 9 generally felt solid and polished. Previous versions of Fedora have generally been hit or miss in this respect, so it's good to find a Fedora release that actually feels like a stable one" Rahul

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Robot soccer players!
by Paul W. Frields 20 May '08

20 May '08

Digg it up: http://digg.com/linux_unix/Red_Hat_News_A_New_Goal_for_Open_Source -- 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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Fedora 9: Leading edge or bleeding edge?
by Rahul Sundaram 19 May '08

19 May '08

Hi, Pretty interesting article. Take a look. http://www.linux.com/feature/135685 Conclusion: "Aside from the problems with PackageKit -- and, to a lesser extent, the inclusion of KDE 4.0.3 -- Fedora 9 manages to balance innovation with a high degree of usability. Over the last few months, Fedora has been increasingly compared favorably with Ubuntu on both accounts, and, to a large extent, it deserves this praise. If anything, it has probably exceeded Ubuntu in innovation, with at least a dozen major new ideas in every release. It is a rare release, too, in which Fedora's menus and dialog do not show minor tinkering to fine-tune the user experience. Yet the problems in Fedora 9 emphasize how difficult a balance the Fedora project tries to maintain. The fact that improvements are coming for both KDE and PackageKit, and that, meanwhile, workarounds exist, is beside the point -- these facts are lucky accidents, and nothing that Fedora has done. Although Fedora's innovations make it one of the more interesting distributions to use and watch these days, the project needs to temper its creativity with more consideration of how changes affect users. Perhaps these relatively minor problems will help the distribution correct its release policies before a major disaster happens in a future release." Rahul

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Romanian F9 release party
by Manuel Wolfshant 19 May '08

19 May '08

Hello A small Fedora release party was organized during this weekend by a couple of friends from the fedoraproject.ro team. Some pictures I took are available at http://wdl.lug.ro/F9 (hopefully more pictures will be added once all participants share their shots). The presentations covered - general introduction to F9, with emphasis on some of the new elements and changes (SELinux enhancements, major changes in Gnome, PolicyKit, swfdec) - presented by Adrian Joian - the narro localization project (http://code.google.com/p/narro/, http://narro.i18n.ro/narro_project_list.php) presented by Alexandru Szasz, a guest who traveled half the country for this special occasion - KDE4 (changes vs KDE3), presented by Nicu Buculei using a KDE spin stored on one of his many USB sticks and using Alex's laptop (aren't virtual machines great ?) - usb stick creation (practical demo, Nicu) Questions (and their answers) were scattered along all presentations and continued at lunch. Thanks go to Gabi and Andrei Nicolau who took care of the conference room and the infrastructure.

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Hands on: The changing face of Fedora
by Rahul Sundaram 19 May '08

19 May '08

Hi, A pretty detailed look at the changes in Fedora over the last few releases and a in comparison with Ubuntu. Overall a positive article. http://www.whatpc.co.uk/personal-computer-world/features/2216901/hands-chan… Rahul

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Bleeding-edge Fedora
by Rahul Sundaram 19 May '08

19 May '08

Hi, Someone should write a response. Feel free to brainstorm here. http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20080519&mode=67#news " Fedora 9 was released last week. As many users have discovered since then, the latest version of Red Hat's community distribution is a rather adventurous mix of bleeding-edge packages and experimental features. The development version of X.Org 1.5 does not work well with any of the proprietary NVIDIA graphics drivers, which were promptly left out from the stable Livna.org repositories. Similarly, Firefox 3.0b5 is a beta build, lacking support for many popular add-ons. And there is KDE 4.0.3, another experimental, buggy and feature-lacking desktop package that is forced onto Fedora's KDE users without an alternative. No wonder that many users are unhappy about some of the choices Fedora developers made prior to the release. But as is always the case with this popular distribution, things are bound to improve in the coming weeks. The first major batch of package updates has already entered the testing directory, so it shouldn't be long before they are pushed on to the end users" Rahul

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Fedora 9 on a USB stick
by Rahul Sundaram 19 May '08

19 May '08

Hi, http://andypiper.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/fedora-9-on-a-usb-stick/ "All-in-all I was extremely impressed with the ease-of-installation and use. I’m not sure how often I’ll want to use this, but the fact that I have a fully-usable Linux distro on a bootable stick is just brilliant." Rahul

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Fedora 9 Out
by Rahul Sundaram 19 May '08

19 May '08

Hi, http://java.sys-con.com/read/569254.htm "Fedora 9 is out. Red Hat says its community-driven operating system features the first non-destructive live USB with persistence – which Red Hat thinks is a first of a kind anywhere – and marks the first major KDE 4-based distribution" "Fedora 9 Live images can now be added to an existing USB key using either a Linux or Windows application, without removing data, or repartitioning or reformatting the USB key, to get a bootable, portable Fedora system. And using the persistence feature, users can download and store data, and remove and add software as on any normal Fedora system. " Rahul

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