news 28 Posted October 6, 2008 -- Fedora Weekly News Issue 146 -- Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 146 for the week ending October 5, 2008. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue146 In this issue of FWN, Max Spevack covers the announcement of the beta for Fedora 10 (Cambridge) and reminds us of the upcoming Fedora Board IRC chat. Oisin Feeley provides another detailed look into Fedora development, covering the recent PATH:/sbin discussion, efforts to speed up Modprobe and MAKEDEV, announcement of the Fedora 10 early branch for developers, and more. Jason Taylor writes on documentation, including discussion on changing language codes in Fedora and the beginnings of an ongoing debate on how to properly document examples of system commands. Runa Bhattacharjee, writing for the translation project, provides detail on the Fedora 10 translation dates and summarizes the most recent meeting of the translation team. Huzaifa Sidhpurwala updates us on discussion on the infrastructure list, including metalinks for Fedora 10 downloads. Nicu Buculei covers the release of the second issue of the art team excellent voice, Echo Monthly News, and Paul Frields' recent request for a remix logo, a secondary watermark for derivative spins. David Nalley brings us up-to-date on the latest security advisories for Fedora 8 and 9 issued this past week. Finally, Dale Bewley gets us current with the many happenings on the four virtualization lists he covers -- the Enterprise Management Tools, Fedora Xen, library virtualization and oVirt development lists. If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[1]. FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco Oisin Feeley Huzaifa Sidhpurwala [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join --- * 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 146 o 1.1 Announcements + 1.1.1 Fedora 10 (Cambridge) Beta + 1.1.2 Fedora Board IRC Meeting o 1.2 Developments + 1.2.1 PATH:/sbin Tab Confusion + 1.2.2 Speeding-up Modprobe and MAKEDEV + 1.2.3 Uniform Proxy Settings + 1.2.4 Fedora 10 Early Branch Now Available + 1.2.5 SELinux - Copying ISO Files o 1.3 Documentation + 1.3.1 New Language Codes + 1.3.2 Command Examples Documentation o 1.4 Translation + 1.4.1 F10 Translation deadline revised to 21st October 2008 + 1.4.2 Fedora Translation Project meeting held o 1.5 Infrastructure + 1.5.1 func logrotate fix + 1.5.2 metalinks for F10 download pages + 1.5.3 smtp-server? o 1.6 Artwork + 1.6.1 The latest news about Echo icons + 1.6.2 Remix logo o 1.7 Security Advisories + 1.7.1 Fedora 9 Security Advisories + 1.7.2 Fedora 8 Security Advisories o 1.8 Virtualization + 1.8.1 Enterprise Management Tools List # 1.8.1.1 virt-manager Adds Disk and Network I/O Graphs # 1.8.1.2 virt-manager Supports Multiple Serial Consoles # 1.8.1.3 Maintaining VM State While Restarting libvirtd Needed + 1.8.2 Fedora Xen List # 1.8.2.1 No Dom0 Support in Fedora 10 + 1.8.3 Libvirt List # 1.8.3.1 Running Xen Guests Without xend # 1.8.3.2 cgroups API and LXC Driver Support # 1.8.3.3 libvirtd Multi-threaded Support in the Works # 1.8.3.4 Host Device Enumeration API # 1.8.3.5 SDL Display Support for QEMU Driver + 1.8.4 oVirt Devel List # 1.8.4.1 oVirt Web API ala EC2 Web Services # 1.8.4.2 QPID Modeling Framework and libvirt-qpid # 1.8.4.3 Booting Guest From ISO Image -- 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 -- Fedora 10 (Cambridge) Beta -- Jesse Keating announced[1] the release of Fedora 10 Beta. "Just on the heels of the Fedora Project's fifth anniversary, the Beta of Fedora Linux version 10 (code-named Cambridge) is now available." Among the new, fun, and interesting features: * New NetworkManager with connection sharing * Improved printer handling * Remote virtualization and easier virt storage * Sectool, an auditing and security testing framework * RPM 4.6, the first big RPM change in several years [1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-September/msg00016.html Additionally, Jesse reported[2] "there was a small problem during image creation that led to the x86_64 Live KDE actually being the content for the x86_64 Live XFCE. I have recreated these images and updated the master mirror and the torrent server." For full disclosure, here are the SHA1SUMs of each: 6f32b75c09838a407371aec211e1951d357baf03 *F10-Beta-x86_64-Live-KDE.iso 04195ea383229bdd356188e86ba8c39985118abb *F10-Beta-x86_64-Live-XFCE.iso [2] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-September/msg00017.html -- Fedora Board IRC Meeting -- Paul Frields reminded[3] everyone that "the Board is holding its monthly public meeting on Tuesday, 7 October 2008, at 1800 UTC on IRC Freenode." The public is invited to do the following: * Join #fedora-board-meeting to see the Board's conversation. This channel is read-only for non-Board members. * Join #fedora-board-public to discuss topics and post questions. This channel is read/write for everyone. The moderator will direct questions from the #fedora-board-public channel to the Board members at #fedora-board-meeting. This should limit confusion and ensure our logs are useful to everyone. [3] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-October/msg00000.html -- Developments -- In this section the people, personalities and debates on the Share this post Link to post
