news 28 Posted April 6, 2009 Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 170 for the week ending April 5, 2009. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue170 In this week's issue, we're proud to include the Fedora Weekly webcomic by Nicu Buculei, who has been producing this regularly for some time. We think you will enjoy Nicu's art and humor. Other selected content includes: * Detailed coverage in the announcements and infrastructure sections on the August 2008 Fedora security intrusion, and updates on the upcoming FUDCon Berlin. * News from the Fedora Planet includes updates on the fourth grade math project for Sugar/OLPC, reviews of Songbird and Flock, amongst other birds of a feather. * In the Developments beat, the mysteries of Fedora & OpenSolaris dual-boot is revealed. * Translation: updates on F11 release note translations, and new members of the Fedora Localization Project * An interview with three members of the Art Team in this week's Art Beat * April Fools and the Conflicker worm, in this week's Security Week beat * Security updates for Fedora 9 and 10 over the past week * Updates on the state of virtualization in Fedora, with a view towards F11 feature rollup 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 1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Oisin Feeley, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala -- 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/ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events Contributing Writer: Max Spevack --- Fedora Board --- Paul Frields[1] reminded[2] the community that the Fedora Board will be "holding its monthly public meeting on Tuesday, 7 April 2009, at 1800 UTC on IRC Freenode." Join #fedora-board-meeting to see the Board's conversation. Join #fedora-board-public to discuss topics and post questions. This channel is read/write for everyone. Paul also mentioned a change in the procedure for the meeting. "We're trying something new (albeit in a minor way) in this meeting. The moderator will still be available to gather input from the #fedora-board-public channel, but will voice people, one at a time, in the queue in the #fedora-board-meeting channel." --- Security --- Paul Frields also issued[3] a detailed, and final report to the Fedora community regarding the August 2008 intrusion. Because of the detailed nature of the announcement, rather than summarize it here, your correspondent encourages people to read the full link. 1. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pfrields 2. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-March/msg00009.html 3. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-March/msg00010.html --- Fedora 11 --- Jesse Keating[1] announced[2] the release of Fedora 11 Beta on March 31. More details about this release will appear later in this week's FWN. 1. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JesseKeating 2. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-March/msg00012.html --- FUDCon Berlin 2009 --- Max Spevack[1] reminded[2] the community about FUDCon Berlin 2009[3], including registration[4], lodging[5], and speaking[6] opportunities. 1. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MaxSpevack 2. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-March/msg00005.html 3. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Berlin_2009 4. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Berlin_2009_attendees 5. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Berlin_2009_lodging 6. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_Berlin_and_LinuxTag_2009_talks --- Upcoming Events --- April 15: NYLUG[1] in New York, New York, USA. April 17-19: Summer Geek Camp 2[2] in Antipolo City, Phillipines. April 18: BarCamp Rochester[3] in Rochester, New York, USA. April 19-22: Red Hat EMEA Partner Summit[4] in Malta. April 24-25: FLISOL, all over the LATAM region. April 25: Trenton Computer Festival[5] in Trenton, New Jersey, USA. April 25-26: Linux Fest Northwest[6] in Bellingham, Wasthington, USA. 1. ↑ http://nylug.org/ 2. ↑ http://fedora.bluepoint.com.ph/index.php?entry=20090204000843 3. ↑ http://barcamprochester.org/ 4. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Red_Hat_EMEA_Partner_Summit_2009 5. ↑ http://tcf-nj.org/ 6. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LinuxFest_Northwest_%28LFNW%29_2009 -- 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 --- Silas Sewell wrote[1] a tutorial on using the Qpid implementation of The Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) on Fedora using Python. Greg DeKoenigsberg provided[2] an updated on the Fourth Grade Math project for the Sugar Project. Ankur Sinha posted[3] a bunch of photos from a Linux Open Week event. Joseph Smidt discussed[4] some thoughts on Intellectual Property in "Open Source Is The Pinnacle Of The Free Market". Adam John Miller gave a talk about Fedora Infrastructure and posted[5] the key points as well as the slides. John Poelstra announced[6] Fedora 12! Not really. But he did announce that the Features process for Fedora 12 has been started and a draft schedule posted. Bryan Clark tested[7] Right-to-Left localization in Thunderbird, and now you can too! Scott Williams reviewed[8] Songbird (media player using the Mozilla core technologies) and Flock, a socially-enabled web browser based on Firefox. Eelko Berkenpies announced[9] that KDE 4.2.2 is now available in the Testing repository for Fedora 10, but also provided information on how to easily install it early if you like to live on the edge. Paul W. Frields discussed[10] some of what the Fedora Infrastructure project does, and included a link to a presentation from PyCon 2009 on the topic. James Antill posted[11] "Why trusted third party repos. will always be a bad idea". 1. ↑ http://www.silassewell.com/blog/2009/03/29/getting-started-with-amqp-qpid-python-fedora/ 2. ↑ http://gregdek.livejournal.com/49272.html 3. ↑ http://dodoincfedora.wordpress.com/2009/03/31/photos-linux-open-week/ 4. ↑ http://californiaquantum.wordpress.com/2009/03/31/open-source-is-the-pinnacle-of-the-free-market/ 5. ↑ http://pseudogen.blogspot.com/2009/04/campus-ambassador-presentation.html 6. ↑ http://poelcat.wordpress.com/2009/04/02/fedora-12-is-next/ 7. ↑ http://clarkbw.net/blog/2009/04/02/testing-rtl-in-thunderbird/ 8. ↑ http://vwbusguy.wordpress.com/2009/04/02/review-songbird-and-flock/ 9. ↑ http://blog.berkenpies.nl/2009/04/03/fedora-10-and-kde-422/ 10. ↑ http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=1580 11. ↑ http://illiterat.livejournal.com/6716.html -- Developments -- In this section the people, personalities and debates on the Share this post Link to post
