Fedora Weekly News Issue 18
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Issue Date: 2005-10-17
Welcome to our issue number 18 of Fedora Weekly News (FWN), the weekly newsletter for the Fedora community.
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FUDCon3 Presentations
Thanks to Alex Maier (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AlexMaier), FUDCon3 Presentations are now available at FUDCon3 (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDCon3) Fedora Project Wiki. Thomas Chung converted (http://fedoranews.org/tchung/FUDCon3/) some of the presentations from OOo documents to PDF documents for easy online reading. You will need Evince (http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/) or Adobe Reader (http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html).
How to check Hotmail with KMail
Chitlesh Goorah has written How to check Hotmail with KMail using GotMail (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gotmail/). "GotMail is a perl script to fetch mail out of your Hotmail or MSN account."
How to setup disk software mirroring
Anze Vidmar has written How to setup and manage your disk software mirroring. "This is quick HOW-TO setup your mirroring with two exactly the same hard disks."
Linux (Fedora) stars in MS movie?
Rahul Sundaram reports (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2005-October/msg00023.html) "Weta Digital uses more than 1000 dual-processor IBM blade servers running the Fedora version of the Red Hat distribution of the Linux to produce special effects for movies that have so far included Lord of the Rings and King Kong." according to New Zealand Stuff News Website (http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3437625a28,00.html).
Fedora CD Labels
Rahul Sundaram reports (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2005-October/msg00019.html) "Looks several people in the Fedora community have been creating CD Labels everywhere." Ray Gwinn (mailto:rlg@wva.net) who is the designer for one of Fedora CD/DVD Labels (http://midearth.wva.net) says (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2005-October/msg00032.html) "I am open to suggested changes from anyone."
How much space?
Tejas Dinkar has written a short article. "This is a Small Article on How Much Space you Would Require for an Install of Fedora Core, and Where this space should be Allocated."
Tip of the Week
This week's Tip of the Week is "How to easily Manage GNOME menus" by Sindre Pedersen Bjørdal (foolish (http://fedoraforum.org/forum/member.php?u=256)).
Fedora Core 4 Updates
During the week of October 10 - October 16, Fedora Project released 10 Fedora Core 4 Updates including 3 Security Advisories.
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