news 28 Posted January 12, 2009 Fedora Weekly News Issue 158 Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 158 for the week ending January 11th, 2009. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue158 In this first FWN issue of 2009, we bring you several announcements of the outcomes of recent Fedora-related elections. Fedora 8 reaches its end of life (time to upgrade!), and FUDCon 11 reports abound. Much news coverage of the Fedora Planet, including Fedora 10 vs. OpenSuSE, explanations on some of the recent security items now in the latest (2.6.28) Linux Kernel, and Fedora and OLPC goodness. From the development realm, useful coverage of the state of Intel graphics under Fedora 10 and debates on disabling staging drivers. Release notes and packaging guide areas need volunteers in the documentation project, and the translation team welcomes new members and suggests new language teams. In artwork, announcement of a new November/December issue of Echo Monthly News, another great sister Fedora publication. Security advisories for Fedora 9 and 10 are brought to light and the issue round out with more virtualization coverage, including announcement of Xen 3.3.1 in Rawhide and a new Fedora virtualization list, "everything concerning Fedora and virtualization, including Xen." Read on! If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[1]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list ( -at -) redhat.com 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 --- Election Results --- Bill Nottingham and Matt Domsch were re-elected to the Fedora Board for two-release terms[1]. Josh Boyer, Dan Horák, Jarod Wilson, and Jon Stanley were elected to the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee for two-release terms[2]. Max Spevack, Joerg Simon, Francesco Ugolini, Thomas Canniot, Rodrigo Padula, David Nalley, and Susmit Shannigrahi were elected to the Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee for two-release terms[3]. Paul Frields announced that Dimitris Glezos has been appointed to fill the final seat on the Fedora Board[4]. [1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-December/msg00019.html [2] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-December/msg00017.html [3] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-December/msg00018.html [4] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-January/msg00007.html --- FUDCon Boston 2009 --- Hopefully, you were able to attend to attend FUDCon Boston, January 9-11. If you weren't, keep reading below for coverage! [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConF11 --- Fedora 8 End of Life -- The end-of-life for Fedora 8 is Wednesday, January 7[1]. No further updates will be issued, no new builds will be allowed in the build system, and all open bugs against Fedora 8 will be closed WONTFIX[2]. [1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-December/msg00018.html [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/End_of_life -- 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 --- Michael DeHaan wrote[1] an essay entitled Academics, Innovation, Patents, And a Path Beyond? about FOSS, cross-organizational collaboration and encouraging innovation. Jef Spaleta had some ideas[2] about "how to do more focused new contributor recruitment and training in Fedora" and using the Mugshot online service to gather statistics and create personalized notifications (invitations) to its users. MáirÃn Duffy created[3] a list of questions (and provoked a healthy discussion) that could be used to develop a set of guidelines for notifications ("Chatty Applications"). Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote[4] about some of the work going in to synchronizing Fedora and OLPC efforts. James Morris explained[5] some of the security changes that have gone in to the latest (2.6.28) Linux Kernel. Karsten Wade asked "why aren’t you publishing on the Fedora wiki?"[6] and followed up with a set of thoughts to encourage documentation contributions. After a few Fedora 10 frustrations, Scott Williams tried-out[7] OpenSuSE and found some good bits and some not-so-good bits. The latest Red Hat Magazine included[8] a video interview of Michael DeHann discussing Cobbler "and how it simplifies network installations for datacenters and other large-scale linux environments". James Laska continued[9] his tutorial on Creating a virtual test lab (using tools such as Cobbler, Koan and SNAKE). David Nalley thanked[10] HP for providing Mini-notes (with Linux preinstalled!) for Fedora Ambassadors. Jef Spaleta wrote[11] an open letter to Mark Shuttleworth questioning the openness (or lack thereof) of Canonical's Launchpad. [1] http://www.michaeldehaan.net/?p=820 [2] http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/31456.html [3] http://mihmo.livejournal.com/66637.html [4] http://gregdek.livejournal.com/43404.html [5] http://james-morris.livejournal.com/37583.html [6] http://iquaid.org/2009/01/06/the-outside-and-inside-of-documentation-or-why-arent-you-publishing-on-the-fedora-wiki/ [7] http://vwbusguy.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/review-opensuse-111/ [8] http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2009/01/07/video-spotlight-on-cobbler/ [9] http://jlaska.livejournal.com/3910.html [10] http://www.nalley.sc/david/?p=171 [11] http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/31829.html --- FUDCon 11 --- A small selection of FUDCon-related posts: [1] http://[censored]y[censored]ypenguins.com/2009/01/10/fudcon-f11-not-in-boston-listen-live-watch-videos-after/ ("Not in Boston? Listen Live, Watch Videos After!") [2] Photos: http://mihmo.livejournal.com/67003.html [3] More photos: http://mihmo.livejournal.com/67287.html [4] Even more photos: http://mihmo.livejournal.com/67388.html -- Developments -- In this section the people, personalities and debates on the Share this post Link to post
