news 28 Posted December 8, 2008 Fedora Weekly News Issue 155 Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 155 for the week ending December 7th, 2008. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue155 FWN is pleased to announce the return of the Planet Fedora beat. Among other items Adam Batkin lists some "Howtos and Tips" gleaned from blogs. In Announcements the "Fedora 11" naming scheme is discussed. In Developments "The PATH to CAPP" exposes disquiet with some security infrastructure. Translation provides updates on the cancellation of FLSCo elections. Artwork is again bursting at the seems with a "T-Shirt Logo Design Tool" and "Improved Document Templates". SecurityAdvisories lists this week's essential updates. Finally Virtualization continues to race the shocking pace of developments including the "Release of libvirt 0.5.0 and 0.5.1" There's plenty more a mere mouse click away! 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 [0] http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join Fedora Weekly News Issue 155 1.1 Announcements 1.1.1 FUDCon Boston (F11) 1.1.2 Fedora 11 1.1.3 Other 1.2 Planet Fedora 1.2.1 General 1.2.2 How-To and Tips 1.2.3 FOSS.IN 1.3 Developments 1.3.1 The PATH to CAPP Audits 1.3.2 The Looming Py3K Monster 1.3.3 PackageKit Stealth Installations 1.3.4 DNS Resolution Unreliable 1.4 Translation 1.4.1 FLSco Elections Cancelled 1.4.2 Fedora-website Translation Repo Re-enabled 1.4.3 Transifex version updated for translate.fedoraproject.org 1.4.4 New Members in FLP 1.5 Artwork 1.5.1 Improved Document Templates 1.5.2 Postprocessing in Icons 1.5.3 FirstAidKit Artwork 1.5.4 T-Shirt Logo Design Tool 1.6 Security Advisories 1.6.1 Fedora 10 Security Advisories 1.6.2 Fedora 9 Security Advisories 1.6.3 Fedora 8 Security Advisories 1.7 Virtualization 1.7.1 Enterprise Management Tools List 1.7.1.1 Enabling Builds of libvirt for Windows 1.7.1.2 Solaris Support in virtinst 1.7.2 Fedora Xen List 1.7.2.1 Support for Fedora 10 DomU on F8 Dom0 1.7.2.2 Paravirt Ops Dom0 Feature Update 1.7.3 Libvirt List 1.7.3.1 Release of libvirt 0.5.0 and 0.5.1 1.7.3.2 Allow Automatic Driver Probe for Remote TCP Connections 1.7.3.3 Thread Safety for libvirtd Daemon and Drivers 1.7.3.4 libvirt 0.5.0 and KVM Migration Support 1.7.4 oVirt Devel List 1.7.4.1 Some Architecture Diagrams 1.7.4.2 Standalone Console Viewer for oVirt == 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 === FUDCon Boston (F11) === Paul Frields made a few announcements this week regarding FUDCon Boston[1], which is January 9-11. Paul mentioned[2] that the event will be held at MIT, he gives information about the social event, and also reminds people to register on the wiki and to make their hotel reservations before December 19th, in order to secure the $99 hotel room rate. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConF11 [2] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-December/msg00000.html === Fedora 11 === Josh Boyer wrote[3] about the process for selecting the Fedora 11 name. "We're doing the name collection differently this year than in the past. Contributors wishing to make a suggestion are asked to go to the F11 naming wiki page[4], and add an entry to the suggestion table found there". [3] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-December/msg00001.html [4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Name_suggestions_for_Fedora_11 Jon Stanley announced[5,6] the Fedora 11 freeze dates. The Alpha freeze is currently scheduled for January 20, and the Final freeze for April 14. [5] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2008-December/msg00005.html [6] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2008-December/msg00006.html Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams announced[7] that Python 2.6 is now in Rawhide. For those of you who maintain Python packages, you'll want to read the full announcement. [7] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2008-December/msg00007.html Other Finally, Paul Frields announced[8] that Chris Aillon has been re-appointed to the Fedora Board, and will serve another two-release term. [8] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-December/msg00005.html == 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: Adam Batkin === General === Fabian Affolter posted[0] a nice graph showing the number of unique fedoraproject.org visitors (progressively growing since 2006!) [0] http://fabaff.blogspot.com/2008/12/fedoraprojectorg-unique-visitors.html Karsten Wade appealed[1] for information about configuring a misbehaving Synaptic touchpad on Fedora 10, followed[2] shortly thereafter by a solution. [1] http://iquaid.org/2008/11/30/synaptic-tapping-fail-is-there-a-good-fix/ [2] http://iquaid.org/2008/12/02/more-than-one-way-to-skin-a-touchpad/ Max Spevack wondered[3] whether there is a nice way to build a custom Fedora mirror tailored specifically to one's installed package set. [3] http://spevack.livejournal.com/69145.html Thorsten Leemhuis critiqued[4] the Fedora Release Notes, providing some suggestions for how to make the important bits stand out more. [4] http://thorstenl.blogspot.com/2008/12/read-same-paragraphs-every-half-year.html A look ahead[5] at some of the innovations in the open source world that we can look forward to during 2009 [5] http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2008/12/01/the-open-source-year-2009/ Luis Villa mused[6][7] on innovation in general and the Linux Desktop (think Gnome and KDE) in particular. [6] http://tieguy.org/blog/2008/12/05/the-linux-desktops-change-problem/ [7] http://tieguy.org/blog/2008/12/06/slight-innovation-followup/ Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote a few[8] posts[9] chronicling[10] his experiences with Sugar [8] http://gregdek.livejournal.com/40932.html [9] http://gregdek.livejournal.com/41431.html [10] http://gregdek.livejournal.com/41616.html Apparently Luis Villa had[11] a similar idea [11] http://tieguy.org/blog/2008/12/02/playing-with-sugar/ A video interview[12] with Paul W. Frields about the Fedora 10 release [12] http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2008/12/02/video-fedora-10/ === How-To and Tips === Tom Tromey wrote an 8-part (so far) series[13] on using a Python-enabled GDB. The series is not just about debugging Python with GDB, but also extending GDB using Python. [13] http://tromey.com/blog/?p=494 Jeroen van Meeuwen provided some instructions for composing EL5 media on Fedora 9 or 10 systems[14] by running Revisor inside mock [14] http://kanarip.livejournal.com/6276.html James Laska wrote a tutorial on how to automate a classroom/lab-type[15] setup using tools such as Cobbler, Snake and Koan [15] http://jlaska.livejournal.com/3696.html Michael Stahnke had some problems (and solutions)[16] for getting Fedora 10 running as a Xen guest on EL5 [16] http://www.stahnkage.com/blogs/index.php?/archives/482-F10-and-Xen-images.html Dale Bewley wrote about expanding[17] an Encrypted Filesystem with LVM and Fedora 10 [17] http://tofu.org/drupal/node/71 Steven Moix managed to get[18] iTunes music sharing working in Fedora 10 [18] http://www.alphatek.info/2008/12/01/itunes-music-sharing-in-fedora-10/ Dave Jones had some tips[19] for making an ASUS Eee PC 900 (or any generally underpowered UMPC with a solid state disk) happier under Linux [19] http://kernelslacker.livejournal.com/132087.html Harald Hoyer also provided some performance advice[20], this time to help identify disk IO bottlenecks during bootup using SystemTap [20] http://www.harald-hoyer.de/personal/blog/fedora-10-disk-io === FOSS.IN === A number of people wrote up their experiences and provided pictures from FOSS.IN: [21] http://james-morris.livejournal.com/36445.html [22] http://james-morris.livejournal.com/36715.html [23] http://soumya.dgplug.org/?p=33 [24] http://kushaldas.in/2008/12/02/through-my-lenses-fossin-2008/ [25] http://rahulpmb.blogspot.com/2008/12/pics-from-fossin.html [26] http://www.tuxmaniac.com/blog/2008/12/07/fossin-2008-lots-of-fun/ == Developments == In this section the people, personalities and debates on the Share this post Link to post
