news 28 Posted October 20, 2008 Fedora Weekly News Issue 148 1.1 Announcements 1.1.1 The Big ACL Opening 1.1.2 Fedora Test Day 1.1.3 K12Linux Release Candidate 1 Now Available 1.2 Developments 1.2.1 OpenOffice and go-oo 1.2.2 PackageGurus, SpecMentats or UeberPackagers? 1.2.3 A Single Torrent ? 1.2.4 The Old Sendmail Argument 1.2.5 Review-o-matic 1.3 Documentation 1.3.1 Lead Writers 1.4 Translation 1.4.1 Preview Version of Release Notes Available 1.4.2 String Freeze Breaks 1.4.3 Unscheduled Maintenance of translate.fedoraproject.org 1.4.4 PackageKit Translation Request 1.5 Artwork 1.5.1 No Echo for Fedora 10 CD/DVD 1.6 Security Advisories 1.6.1 Fedora 9 Security Advisories 1.6.2 Fedora 8 Security Advisories 1.7 Virtualization 1.7.1 Enterprise Management Tools List 1.7.1.1 Starting Guests from a Desktop Icon 1.7.1.2 Plugins for Performance Monitoring Applications 1.7.2 Fedora Xen List 1.7.3 Libvirt List 1.7.3.1 Openvz Bridge Support and Related Patches 1.7.3.2 Guest Image Locking 1.7.3.3 Exporting the Label on Block Devices 1.7.3.4 Experimental User Mode Linux Driver 1.7.3.5 Experimental Driver Thread Safety 1.7.4 oVirt Devel List = Fedora Weekly News Issue 148 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 148 for the week ending October 19, 2008. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue148 The preparations for Fedora 10 and beyond are reflected in this week's issue: "Announcements" alerts us to "Fedora Test Day"; "Documentation" conveys a request for "Lead Writers"; "Developments" examines "Review-o-matic" which may help triage our ever-expanding package repositories; "Translation" explains the "String Freeze Breaks" occasioned by the imminent release of Fedora 10; "Artwork" dives into icon controversy with "No Echo for Fedora 10 CD/DVD"; the latest "SecurityAdvisories" are worth checking out; and finally "Virtualization" shares some tips on "Starting Guests from a Desktop Icon" and the latest "Experimental User Mode Linux Driver". But wait! There's more!: "Announcements" highlights "The Big ACL Opening" as a further opening of the Fedora Project infrastructure to contributors. 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 == 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 === The Big ACL Opening === Casey Dahlin announced[0] that "we are now on a two-tiered access system for CVS. The final change which we will be making is the mass ACL open." He went on to explain, "what will happen is all packages which are now set to be private, accessible by their maintainers and a few specific individuals only, will be opened up to all überpackager members. Members of überpackager represent a filtered minority of CVS comitters, but membership is easy to come by for anyone that asks." [0] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-October/msg00006.html === Fedora Test Day === James Laska announced[2] the next Fedora Test Day. "I'd like to invite testers and users to join #fedora-qa this Thursday, October 16, 2008[3]." Testing will focus on security audit, better LIRC support, and Fedora 10 Beta snapshot #1". [2] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2008-October/msg00008.html [3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days/2008-10-16 === K12Linux Release Candidate 1 Now Available === Peter Scheie announced[4] "that K12Linux Release Candidate 1 is now available for download. K12Linux is LTSP 5 built on Fedora 9, and is slated to become the successor to the highly acclaimed K12LTSP. K12Linux comes as a live image which can be used to create a LiveUSB or LiveDVD with the client chroot already installed & configured." Go check it out! [4] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2008-October/msg00010.html == Developments == In this section the people, personalities and debates on the Share this post Link to post
