Fedora Weekly News Issue 19
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Issue Date: 2005-10-24
Welcome to our issue number 19 of Fedora Weekly News (FWN), the weekly newsletter for the Fedora community.
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Red Hat Magazine - October 2005 - Issue #12
This month's magazine (http://www.redhat.com/magazine/) focuses on what goes on behind the scenes. Whether you're developing for Fedora Core, writing scripts to make your life easier, integrating Java applications, or simply trying to get better performance out of your systems, our developer friends have advice to offer. Fedora Status Report (http://www.redhat.com/magazine/012oct05/departments/fedora_status/) has an update on Fedora Foundation (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Foundation).
Largest deployment of Red Hat Enterprise Linux in India
Red Hat India reports (http://www.in.redhat.com/news/article/59.html) that "Canara Bank, one of the largest banks in India has selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux as its platform of choice to automate more than 1,000 branches across the country. The project marks the largest roll out of Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the Indian BFSI vertical so far."
FUDCon London 2005: Analysis
Here is Greg DeKoenigsberg (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GregDeKoenigsberg)'s Analysis (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2005-October/msg00044.html) of FUDCon London 2005 (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDCon3) (FUDCon 3). "Nice FUDCon. Well prepared and well executed. Decent walk up traffic. Good names and good presentations. And yet... not really that remarkable."
FUDCon Boston 2006?
Now that FUDCon 2005 is over. There has been already a discussion (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2005-October/msg00048.html) for the next FUDCon. "Do we want to do another Boston based FUDCon to coincide with LWCE: Boston 2006?"
CMC Program Relaunch: Fedora Ambassadors
Thanks to Alex Maier (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AlexMaier), we now have a list of Fedora Ambassadors (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/Ambassadors). Here is the orignial message (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2005-October/msg00120.html).
Downloading Fedora on Fedora Project Wiki
Thanks to Patrick Barnes (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PatrickBarnes), we now have Downloading Fedora (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/Download) page on our Fedora Project Wiki (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/).
Using Kexec and Kdump in Rawhide
Jeff Moyer has written an article about Using Kexec and Kdump in Rawhide. "The kexec-tools package was recently added to rawhide. This package allows the user to reboot his system without first passing through the BIOS. In other words, the running kernel acts as the boot loader, and directly jumps to the next kernel." He also told us that "I'm very interested in getting testing feedback (positive and negative) for both kexec and kdump."
New fontconfig and shared-mime-info in Rawhide
Matthias Clasen (mailto:mclasen@redhat.com) reports by email that "I have pushed new versions of fontconfig and shared-mime-info into Rawhide. That is in itself not very exciting, but the interesting bit about these two updates is that they both introduce mmap-based caching which has the potential to lead to quite a bit of memory saving. Both of these caching mechanisms are still somewhat experimental and in need of testing (which is why I pushed cvs snapshots to Rawhide, to get some widespread testing)."
OpenOffice.org 2.0 in Rawhide
According to Caolan Mcnamara (mailto:caolanm@redhat.com)'s blog (http://blogs.linux.ie/caolan/2005/10/20/ooo-20/), "Now that OOo 2.0 is released (http://www.openoffice.org/press/2.0/press_release.html), rawhide users can find it as 2.0.0-3, and for FC4 it is currently in update testing (http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/4/i386/) as 2.0.0-3, and will be pushed final if the FC4 package doesn’t break anything carastrophically."
Great Networking in Fedora has Arrived
Christopher Aillon writes in his blog (http://christopher.aillon.org/blog/dev/fedora/20051019-testing.html) that "Faithful users of the Fedora Core 4 linux distribution can now connect to wireless networks reliably. A version of NetworkManager 0.5.0 was released into the popular distribution's updates-testing channel, allowing users the chance to preview the software before it is released as an update to the general Fedora user base."
Meeting Minutes for Fedora Documentation
Here is the Meeting Minutes (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2005-October/msg00053.html) for Fedora Documentation (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject) meeting on 2005-10-18. FDSCo stands for Fedora Documentation Steering Committee (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/SteeringCommittee).
How to import Evolution mail into Thunderbird
Anze Vidmar has written an article about How to import Evolution mail into Thunderbird. "This is a quick trick how to import all your mail from Evolution to Mozilla Thunderbird."
How to implement Quotas on your system
Anze Vidmar has written another article about How to implement Quotas on your system. "Quota allows you to specify limits on two aspects of disk storage: the number of inodes a user or a group of users may possess; and the number of disk blocks that may be allocated to a user or a group of users."
Fedora Core 4 Updates
During the week of October 17 - October 23, Fedora Project released 10 Fedora Core 4 Updates including 4 Security Advisories.
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