Fedora Weekly News Issue 14
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Issue Date: 2005-09-19
Welcome to our issue number 14 of Fedora Weekly News (FWN), the weekly newsletter for the Fedora community.
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Red Hat Magazine - September 2005
Last month's issue was all about deploying and maintaining your systems with Red Hat Network. This month, Red Hat Magazine (http://www.redhat.com/magazine/) focuses on tuning and monitoring code for optimal performance. Learn about the Linux utilities ps, top, sar, iostat, and vmstat (http://www.redhat.com/magazine/011sep05/features/tools/), gathering information about the running kernel with SystemTap (http://www.redhat.com/magazine/011sep05/features/systemtap/), and GCC flags to optimize code when it is compiled (http://www.redhat.com/magazine/011sep05/features/gcc/).
Also, in response to the recent news about computer worms spreading over the Internet, Josh Bressers from the Red Hat Security Response Team has written a great description of what a worm is (http://www.redhat.com/magazine/011sep05/features/security/) as well as explained how Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora Core have technologies such as SELinux and ExecShield to help prevent common viruses and worms from infecting your system.
Enjoy issue #11. Our one year anniversary is coming up next!
Tammy Fox, Editor, Red Hat Magazine
November's Red Hat Magazine: All About Fedora
Greg DeKoenigsberg (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GregDeKoenigsberg) reports (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2005-September/msg00094.html) "Talking with Tammy Fox, the editor of Red Hat Magazine, and she's going to be focusing entirely on Fedora for the November issue."
Release Notes - A New Era
Karsten Wade (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KarstenWade) reports (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2005-September/msg00056.html) "It's time to start gathering notes for FC5 test1 and final release notes." Also from his blog (http://www.livejournal.com/users/iquaid/7372.html), "It is release notes season again, and there are many very cool new tools and processes that are going to make the FC5 relnotes fantastic."
Why not help with the Release Notes?
Gavin Henry (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GavinHenry) reports (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2005-September/msg00045.html) "I have edited the Beats page for FC4 and turned it into one for FC5: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/ReleaseNotes/Beats"
Revamped Fedora Project website
Rahul Sundaram (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RahulSundaram) reports (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2005-September/msg00183.html) " I have worked along with Patrick Barnes (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PatrickBarnes) who has done a great job in a revamping the wiki frontpage (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki) and related content over the past few days keeping in mind the earlier discussions we had in the list about the focus of the websites and lots of love :-)"
Meeting Minutes for Fedora Documentation
Here is the Meeting Minutes (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2005-September/msg00055.html) for Fedora Documentation (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/) meeting on September 13, 2005
Meeting Minutes for Fedora Marketing
Here is the Meeting Minutes (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2005-September/msg00124.html) for Fedora Marketing (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing) meeting on September 16, 2005
Fedora Legacy Documents Move into Fedora Wiki
Jeff Sheltren (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JeffSheltren) reports (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-legacy-list/2005-September/msg00052.html) "I've added a number of new pages to the wiki." The Fedora Legacy Project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) also reports "The Fedora Legacy Wiki has been moved to the Fedora Project's Wiki site at http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legacy."
Unofficial FC4.1 i386 isos
Hans Kristian Rosbach reports (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2005-September/msg00314.html) "After the recent discussion "FC4 state of affairs and FC5" on fedora-devel about the possibility of making updated installation iso images I gave it a try and actually managed to put it together nicely."
Fedora Core 4 on Dell Inspiron 6000
D. Hugh Redelmeier reports (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-September/msg02156.html) "I just installed FC4 on a new Dell Inspiron 6000 and I want to record my discoveries to help others."
Fancy GUI for your Cisco VPN client
Anze Vidmar has written a new article: "Those of you who are using Cisco VPN client (http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/vpn/client/) for your everyday needs, here is a cool tip how to make the client even more useful in your Gnome environment"
Upgrade to the latest Gnome 2.12
Anze Vidmar has written another article: "This is a very rare question this days, "how do I upgrade my Fedora Core 4 box to the latest Gnome 2.12 (http://www.gnome.org/start/2.12/notes/en/rnusers.html) desktop?". Well, since I also had the same question and now I'm already running it, I'll show you a quick way to accomplish this."
Tip of the Week
This week's Tip of the Week is "Recovering your corrupted or overwritten MBR" by Anze Vidmar.
Fedora Core 4 Updates
During the week of September 12 - September 18, Fedora Project released 15 Fedora Core 4 Updates including 3 Security Advisories.
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