Fedora Weekly News #162

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Fedora Weekly News Issue 162

 

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 162 for the week ending February

8th, 2009.

 

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue162

 

This week we're happy to announce the return of several beats: Marketing

reports on following Fedora activity via Twitter; Ambassadors tantalizes

with some Fedora polo shirts and the news that "North American

Ambassadors Take Reins of XO Program"; Infrastructure notes a possible

"Public Calendaring System" for the community; SecurityWeek shares an

xkcd comic in "Encryption Security". Announcements highlights the

K12Linux Fedora 10 Live Server in "Technical Announcements",

PlanetFedora rounds up a lot of must-read blogs, Developments clarifies

that "Fedora 11 Will Support i586 Instruction Set", Translation links to

the "L10n Infrastructure Roadmap Proposal", Artwork suggests some

"Context Free Art", SecurityAdvisories lists packages you really, really

want, Virtualization defies easy summary but one exciting tidbit is

"Merging KVM and Qemu Packages", and finally we have another AskFedora

concerning the possibility of a "Standardized Package Format".

 

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our 'join' page[1]. We welcome reader feedback:

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FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Oisin Feeley, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala

 

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Contents

Fedora Weekly News Issue 162

1.1 Announcements

1.1.1 Fedora 11 Alpha

1.1.2 Technical Announcements

1.1.3 Upcoming Events

1.2 Planet Fedora

1.2.1 General

1.2.2 FOSDEM 2009

1.3 Marketing

1.3.1 Draft Fedora 11 Schedule

1.3.2 Fedora Twitters

1.3.3 Fedora 11 Alpha Ships with Windows Cross Compiler

1.4 Ambassadors

1.4.1 North American Ambassadors Take Reins of XO Program

1.4.2 North America Polo Shirt Order

1.4.3 FAD SCaLE coming up 2009-02-20

1.4.4 Got Ambassador News?

1.5 Developments

1.5.1 Fedora 11 Alpha Released

1.5.2 Fedora 11 Will Support i586 Instruction Set

1.5.3 RFC: Power Management

1.5.4 Rawhide Report 2009-02-07

1.5.5 New module-init-tools Uses Binary

modules.dep|alias|symbols

1.5.6 New Georgian Fonts Packaged Rapidly

1.5.7 Distro-agnostic /boot Metadata Standard ?

1.5.8 GCC-4.4 Mass Rebuild Successful

1.5.9 Help Rel-eng Accelerate Updates Processing

1.6 Translation

1.6.1 Fedora 10 Release Notes Updated

1.6.2 L10n Infrastructure Roadmap Proposal

1.7 Infrastructure

1.7.1 CSI (Security Policy) Help

1.7.2 Public Calendaring System

1.8 Artwork

1.8.1 Echo Monthly News

1.8.2 Context Free Art

1.9 Security Week

1.9.1 Encryption Security

1.9.2 Running Things as root is a Bad Idea

1.10 Security Advisories

1.10.1 Fedora 10 Security Advisories

1.10.2 Fedora 9 Security Advisories

1.11 Virtualization

1.11.1 Enterprise Management Tools List

1.11.1.1 virt-manager and QEMU Disk Polling Logs

1.11.1.2 virt-viewer Persistance Through Guest Reboots

1.11.1.3 virt-install Wait Indefinitely for Windows

Guests

1.11.2 Fedora Virtualization List

1.11.2.1 Fedora Virt Status Update

1.11.2.2 Merging KVM and QEMU Packages

1.11.3 Fedora Xen List

1.11.3.1 bzImage Dom0 Support in Rawhide Xen

1.11.3.2 Test Dom0 Xen Kernel RPM Available

1.11.4 Libvirt List

1.11.4.1 Fix for Fallout From Failed QEMU Guest Starts

1.11.4.2 sVirt Patches to Merge in libvirt

1.11.4.3 Manage iptables with libvirt

1.12 Ask Fedora

1.12.1 Standardized Package Format

 

== 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 Alpha ===

 

JesseKeating announced[1] the release of Fedora 11 Alpha. The release is

available at http://get.fedoraproject.org and includes MinGW (for

Windows cross-compiling), the ext4 filesystem, GNOME 2.26, KDE 4.2.0,

and XFCE 4.6 Beta.

 

Furthermore, James Laska informed[2]the community about a Fedora Test

Day focused on ext4.

 

=== Technical Announcements ===

 

Martin Sourada published[3] the latest issue of Echo Monthly News.

 

Warren Togami announced[4] "the release of K12Linux F10 Live Server.

K12Linux is Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP.org) integrated with

Fedora 10, in a convenient LiveUSB or DVD media installer." The release

inclues auto-configuration of diskless thin clients, sound forwarding

over the network via PulseAudio, and more.

 

All package maintainers should read the updated[5] package update

guidelines[6], as announced by Mark McLoughlin.

 

=== Upcoming Events ===

 

Fedora will have a presence at several events in the next few weeks.

Feel free to join us,

 

February 20 - 22: Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE)[7][8]

 

Also, people are encouraged to register for Fedora or JBoss.org related

speaking slots at LinuxTag 2009.[9]

 

1. ↑

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-February/msg00004.html

2. ↑

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-February/msg00003.html

3. ↑

https://fedorahosted.org/echo-icon-theme/wiki/MonthlyNews/Issue6

4. ↑

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-February/msg00002.html

5. ↑

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-February/msg00004.html

6. ↑

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Package_update_guidelines

7. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SCALE7X_Event

8. ↑

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Activity_Day_at_SCaLE_7x

9. ↑ http://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 ===

 

Paul W. Frields announced[1] the Fedora 11 Alpha, as well as an

explanation of why Alpha releases exist and how you can get a sneak-peek

at what will be in the next release while helping Fedora improve.

 

Chris Brown wrote[2] about some of the other features that may make an

appearance in F11.

 

Dwayne Bailey developed[3] a system to manage the localization of

software and integrated[4] it with some existing libraries to produce

Virtaal[5].

 

Gary Benson continued[6] his excellent series "Inside Zero and Shark", a

must-read for anyone interested in virtual machines or Java internals.

 

Dave Jones explained[7] the status of Dracut, "the shiny new initramfs

creation tool."

 

Chris Tyler wrote[8],[9] [10] about getting a multiseat system set up

using a single computer and dual ATI R710 video cards. In the latest

installment the ATI setup was compared[11] to a similar configuration

using Dual NVIDIA 9800GTX and various driver combinations.

 

Steven Moix benchmarked[12],[13] the performance of Solid State Disks

using various I/O schedulers running on Fedora 10.

 

Tim Waugh showed off[14] the eye candy of system-config-printer that can

be expected in Fedora 11.