news 28 Posted January 19, 2009 Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 159 for the week ending January 19th, 2009. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue159 This week's issue reveals the code name for Fedora 11 and provides coverage from the latest FUDCon in announcements. News abounds from around Fedora Planet, including musings on the reduction of the OLPC dev team, thoughts on what it means to contribute to Fedora from several contributors, and much more. Development reports on several discussions from the recent FUDCon on the possible future of comps.xml, new packages to Rawhide coming, and more. More depth of discussion on the need for a Fedora Project CMS is offered in the Docs beat, and Translations has lots more to report on new members of various internationalization teams. The Art beat has a wonderful in-depth look at approaches for themes for Fedora 11, and security advisories brings us up to date with recent updates there. We complete the issue with news from virtualization developments, including two items regarding sVirt, a project to add security labeling support to Linux-based virtualization, and other focused discussions with libvirt. Enjoy! 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 --- Fedora 11 Release Name --- At FUDCon Boston, Paul Frields announced that "Leonidas" had won the vote, and will be the code name of Fedora 11. There was much screaming and yelling, and reciting of lines from "The 300"[0]. [0] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-January/msg00004.html --- FUDCon Boston --- FUDCon Boston was a great success[1]. Not only are many videos from the sessions available on the Fedora Wiki, but there is also a collection of blog posts from various attendees[2]. [1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-January/msg00013.html [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:FUDConF11_blogs --- Technical Announcements --- Jon Stanley announced[3] that he and Dennis Gilmore "are beginning an effort to migrate fedora-* redhat com to lists.fedoraproject.org." There are several benefits to this move, including greater control of the Fedora lists, a stronger Fedora identity ( ( -at -) lists.fedoraproject.org as opposed to ( -at -) redhat.com), and the ability to be more responsive to community requests. [3] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-January/msg00012.html Jesse Keating announced[4] that on January 20th, "we will be doing a non-blocking freeze of Rawhide to be the basis of Fedora 11 Alpha. Only targeted fixes will be pulled into the Alpha tag after the freeze. Rawhide itself will continue on as to not disrupt development." [4] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-January/msg00005.html --- Upcoming Events --- Fedora will have a presence at several events in the next few weeks. Feel free to join us, February 6 - 8: Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting (FOSDEM)[5] February 20 - 22: Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE)[6] Also, people are encouraged to register for Fedora or JBoss.org related speaking slots at LinuxTag 2009[7]. [5] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/FOSDEM/FOSDEM2009 [6] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SCALE7X_Event [7] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LinuxTag_2009_talks -- 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 --- Marc F Ferguson expounded[0] upon the wonders of "Being a Part of Something Bigger" by joining the Fedora Project and switching to Linux! While there are lots of positive posts out there, this one captures the positive feeling that a lot of folks have by joining a project like Fedora. Andrew Overholt appealed[1] for anyone interested in helping get JBoss AS 5.0 into Fedora. Karsten Wade wrote[2] about some of the issues and concerns involved with picking a CMS for Fedora. Abhishek Rane posted[3] some nice screenshots of Amarok 2.0.1.1 (as well as a download link for Fedora 10). Jef Spaleta continued[4] his across-the-intertubes discussion with Mark Shuttleworth about Canonical's Launchpad being closed source, and talked about his motivations behind contributing to Fedora: "I have never received a paycheck from Red Hat in any capacity...Making sure companies which proclaim to be open source advocates are actually ‘walking the walk’ is on my personal agenda." In another post, Jef added[5] the statistic "2 out of the top 3 'ideas' on Ubuntu's brainstorm this week are requests to take features from the Fedora Feature process for Fedora 10 and port them to Ubuntu". He continued[6] by showing that Soyuz (a component of Launchpad that Canonical has not open sourced) has a much higher number of open bugs than other components. Along a similar line of thought, he discussed[7] in more general terms, "How important is opening sourcing in the cloud?" Greg DeKoenigsberg mused[8] about the loss of most of the OLPC software development team and what that means for OLPC, Sugar and Fedora. Jesus Rodriguez announced[9] that Spacewalk 0.4 ("an open source Linux and Solaris systems management solution") has been released, including a list of features and enhancements and some known issues. Scott Williams proposed[10] offering support for end-of-life versions of Fedora in a new Freenode IRC channel (#Fedora-EOL), complete with some discussion in the comments about whether or not this was a good idea. Dave Jones generated[11] a neat graph of the performance of an SSD Jef Spaleta provided[12] some interesting statistics about VCS usage from Debian as well as fedorahosted.org, and discussed some of the implications. [0] http://www.fergytech.com/2009/01/17/being-apart-of-something-bigger/ [1] http://overholt.ca/wp/?p=114 [2] http://iquaid.org/2009/01/11/moving-toward-a-content-management-decision/ [3] http://www.abhishekrane.com/2009/01/12/magellanamarok-2011-released-screenshot-changelog/ [4] http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/32178.html [5] http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/32733.html [6] http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/33152.html [7] http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/32488.html [8] http://gregdek.livejournal.com/43698.html [9] http://zeusville.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/spacewalk-04-released/ [10] http://vwbusguy.wordpress.com/2009/01/16/help-needed-fedora-eol/ [11] http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/2009/01/16/gskill-ssd-performance/ [12] http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/32888.html --- FUDcon Boston --- MáirÃn Duffy took[1] some photos of the latest FUDcon Boston shirts. Chris Tyler announced[2] that "Video from eight of the FUDCon F11 sessions plus Paul Frield's closing remarks/State of Fedora are now available". Karsten Wade asked[3] "Where are your FUDCon session notes?" (so if you have any session notes from FUDcon, feel free to follow these tips to share them with others who may not have been so fortunate to attend in-person). [1] http://mihmo.livejournal.com/67737.html [2] http://blog.chris.tylers.info/index.php?/archives/170-FUDCon-F11-Video.html [3] http://iquaid.org/2009/01/16/where-are-your-fudcon-session-notes/ --- How-Tos --- John Poelstra wrote[1] about how to perform "Fast Spaceless Backups". Bogomil Shopov shared[2] a quick tutorial on "Installing LXDE on Fedora". LXDE is the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment ("a desktop environment which is lightweight and very very fast"). [1] http://poelcat.wordpress.com/2009/01/14/fast-spaceless-backups/ [2] http://www.bogomil.info/int/installing-lxde-on-fedora -- Developments -- In this section the people, personalities and debates on the Share this post Link to post
