news 28 Posted September 29, 2008 Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 145 for the week ending September 28, 2008. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue145 This week's issue brings plenty of insights into the Fedora 10 theme decisions, as covered by longtime FWN writer, Nicu Buculei. Max Spevak reports on several recent linux events and the Fedora acivity there, as well as relays final Fedora 10 schedule changes and other announcements. Oisin Feeley updates us on Fedora development activity with deactivation of some dormant services and discussion of PackageKit. Jason Taylor highlights the many release notes completed for the upcoming Fedora 10 release. Dale Bewley brings us up to date on activity with four separate discussion lists in Fedora virtualization. Svetoslav Chukov, in the marketing beat, celebrates Fedora's fifth birthday with a wonderful, generous reflection of the project by OpenSUSE's community manager, Joe Brockmeier, and Runa Bhattacharjee covers the freeze activities surrounding translation and internationalization for Fedora 10. If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[1]. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join Contents * 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 145 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Schedule updates for Fedora 10 + 1.1.2 Fedora Test Day - 2008-09-25 - Live Beta Images and FirstAidKit o 1.2 Planet Fedora + 1.2.1 Events + 1.2.2 Tech Tidbits o 1.3 Marketing + 1.3.1 Happy birthday Fedora! + 1.3.2 Lessons learned from five years of Fedora + 1.3.3 The sweet features of Fedora - Smolt + 1.3.4 Plug and Run Fedora on a Toshiba A300D laptop, Part II o 1.4 Developments + 1.4.1 Default Deactivation of Services + 1.4.2 specspo and PackageKit + 1.4.3 Are Other Distros Controlling Fedora through PackageKit ? + 1.4.4 /sbin and /bin Linked to /usr/lib o 1.5 Documentation + 1.5.1 Release Notes Galore + 1.5.2 Documentation Repository Changes o 1.6 Translation + 1.6.1 String freeze breakage alarms + 1.6.2 Fedora Docs moved to git repository + 1.6.3 Translation schedule to be further discussed for clarity of tasks o 1.7 Artwork + 1.7.1 The desktop theme for Fedora 10 was chosen + 1.7.2 The fight for the theme + 1.7.3 The theme soap opera + 1.7.4 Lessons from the flamewar + 1.7.5 Echo icon theme and Fedora 10 o 1.8 Security Advisories + 1.8.1 Fedora 9 Security Advisories + 1.8.2 Fedora 8 Security Advisories o 1.9 Virtualization + 1.9.1 Enterprise Management Tools List # 1.9.1.1 Maximum Number of Attached CDROMs in Xen # 1.9.1.2 Parallel Port Support in virt-manager # 1.9.1.3 VMWare VMX Output from virt-convert # 1.9.1.4 Disk Image Signature Verification + 1.9.2 Fedora Xen List # 1.9.2.1 Continued Trouble with 32bit Fedora 9 DomU on Fedora 8 Dom0 + 1.9.3 Libvirt List # 1.9.3.1 Libvirt 0.4.6 Released # 1.9.3.2 RFC: Events API # 1.9.3.3 Windows Binaries + 1.9.4 oVirt Devel List # 1.9.4.1 oVirt 0.93-1 Released # 1.9.4.2 Modeling LVM Storage Fedora Weekly News Issue 145 -- Announcements -- In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/ Contributing Writer: Max Spevack -- Schedule updates for Fedora 10 -- Jesse Keating announced[0] the schedule changes for Fedora 10, "resulting in a final release date of Tuesday Nov. 25th." [0] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-September/msg00013.html -- Fedora Test Day - 2008-09-25 - Live Beta Images and FirstAidKit James Laska advertised[1] the next Fedora Test Day, which has been a recurring theme during the Fedora 10 cycle. "Testing efforts will focus on testing Fedora 10 Beta Live images as well as system recovery using FirstAidKit."[2] [1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2008-September/msg00016.html [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days/2008-09-25 -- Planet Fedora -- In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. http://planet.fedoraproject.org Contributing Writer: Max Spevack -- Events -- Several Fedora Ambassadors posted about OpenExpo, in Switzerland. Joerg Simon posted[0] some pictures of the event, and Max Spevack and Sandro Mathys both[1] posted[2] their own trip reports. [0] http://kitall.blogspot.com/2008/09/open-expo-winterthur-switzerland-2008.html [1] http://spevack.livejournal.com/66777.html [2] http://blog.sandro-mathys.ch/2008/09/27/openexpo-2008-zurich-in-winterthur-review/ Susmit Shannigrahi wrote[3] about the preparations for AXIS '08. "Fedora will have a 1.5 hour session on 26th for talk and 2 hour slot with a media lab for conducting workshops." [3] http://susmit.wordpress.com/2008/09/23/we-are-leaving-for-axis08/ Finally, Clint Savage posted[4] about Fedora Ambassador Day North America, which will be taking place in parallel with Ohio Linux Fest in October. [4] http://[censored]y[censored]ypenguins.com/2008/09/24/fadna-at-olf2008/ -- Tech Tidbits -- We begin this section with Jonathan Roberts, and his[5] many[6] posts[7] about the Dell Mini and how it functions[8] with Fedora. Credit JonRob for being tough-minded enough to get the machine to work, despite sound and wireless problems. "I've gone ahead and created a wiki page documenting everything you need to do, as well as joined the Fedora Mini SIG. I've already got some packages waiting to be sorted that would be appropriate for the SIG, so I'll attach them to their tracker bug at some point in the near future." [5] http://jonrob.wordpress.com/2008/09/23/dell-mini-inspiron-9/ [6] http://jonrob.wordpress.com/2008/09/24/dell-mini-inspiron-9-q-a/ [7] http://jonrob.wordpress.com/2008/09/25/final-mini-post/ [8] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Dell_Mini_Inspiron Dimitris Glezos posted[9] about translations and release engineering. "There are more than 400 active Fedora translators contibuting in a lot of languages. Anaconda, the Fedora installer, is shipped to more than 60 languages (counting only those with a considerable completion percentage). The Fedora website speaks more than 20 languages. Considering that this is almost exclusively volunteer community work, I’d say our groups of translators are doing an amazing job." [9] http://dimitris.glezos.com/weblog/2008/09/23/release-engineering-and-translations/ Lennart Poettering wrote[10] several[11] articles[12] about the Linux audio stack this week. His impetus: "At the Audio MC at the Linux Plumbers Conference one thing became very clear: it is very difficult for programmers to figure out which audio API to use for which purpose and which API not to use when doing audio programming on Linux." [10] http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/guide-to-sound-apis.html [11] http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-linux-audio-stack.html [12] http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/guide-to-sound-apis-followup.html -- Marketing -- In this section, we cover the Fedora Marketing Project. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing Contributing Writer: Svetoslav Chukov -- Happy birthday Fedora! Five years ago this past week, the Fedora project became a reality, and it is amazing to see how far we have come. Happy birthday, Fedora! -- Lessons learned from five years of Fedora Rahul Sundaram highlighted [1] the OpenSUSE Community Manager, Joe Brockmeier, in his blog posting posting, "Lessons learned from five years of Fedora". Brockmeier reflects on building open source community projects, and the success Fedora has had in this regard. "The most valuable thing I’ve learned watching Fedora is this: Patience. It takes time and steady, incremental growth to build a solid community. If you’d asked me two years into Fedora’s development whether the project would succeed, I’d have been somewhat skeptical, but looking at the project five years down the road, I’m convinced." [1] http://blogs.zdnet.com/community/?p=111 -- The sweet features of Fedora - Smolt -- The blog "Spread Fedora" offered a short story on Fedora's hardware profiler, Smolt.[1] "It would be very beautiful and comfortable if there were some GNU/Linux distribution that keep track of used hardware of the users or just could provide information how the particular hardware would perform. I know such a distribution - Fedora. " [1] http://spreadfedora.org/sf/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=59&Itemid=52 -- Plug and Run Fedora on a Toshiba A300D laptop, Part II The blog "Spread Fedora" also offered part II of their experience installing and configuring Fedora on a Toshiba A300D laptop.[1] Part I[2] was highlighted in last week's FWN. In this week, configuring the USB to ethernet and sound card tweaking. [1] http://spreadfedora.org/sf/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=60&Itemid=53 [2] http://spreadfedora.org/sf/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=58&Itemid=51 -- Developments -- In this section the people, personalities and debates on the Share this post Link to post
