Fedora Weekly News Issue 21
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Issue Date: 2005-11-07
Welcome to our issue number 21 of Fedora Weekly News (FWN), the weekly newsletter for the Fedora community.
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Vote against software patents in an Internet poll
Morgan Read (mailto:mstuff@pl.net) points out "Alan Cox has backed the the cause and RedHat sponsors the campaign." For more information, please read How to vote (http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/ev50/vote.html) and FOSS luminaries call to vote against swpats (http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=676)
Livna Repo Availability Issue
Dams Nadé (mailto:anvil@livna.org) points out in his message (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-November/msg00872.html), "After some user errors, the rpm.livna.org system has been unreachable for 36h now. Someone has to physically get to the data center and reboot it. It should be done in a few hours. 'Til then, please use a mirror." UPDATE: Here is Updated News for Livna Repo.
Using Rawhide and Fedora Testing Guide
Rahul Sundaram points out in his blog (http://www.livejournal.com/users/rahulsundaram/1453.html), "..if you want to use Rawhide. Well we have the right solution on progress.." at Fedora Testing Guide (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/TestingGuide).
Kennards shifts 400 desktops to Linux (Fedora)
Rahul Sundaram also points out in his message (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2005-November/msg00007.html), "..the full rollout will take place in January and will involve more than 400 machines running Fedora Linux on the desktop across about 80 branches nationally" Kennards Hire (http://www.kennards.com.au/) is a National equipment hire company in Australia.
Fedora Extras Steering Committee Meeting
Thanks to Seth Vidal (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SethVidal), we now have Meeting Minutes at Fedora Extras Steering Committee (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SteeringCommittee). Here is his message (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2005-November/msg00164.html).
Red Hat RPM Guide Available
According to Paul Nasrat (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PaulNasrat)'s blog (http://www.livejournal.com/users/nasrat/41084.html), "I'm very pleased to announce that the Red Hat RPM Guide (http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/drafts/rpm-guide-en/) has been made available under the Open Publication Licence, Version 1.0."
OpenOffice.org 2.0 and Java
According to Joshua Wulf (mailto:jwulf@redhat.com)'s blog (http://www.livejournal.com/users/jwulf/10363.html), "We use the gcj JRE as the default because we want to ship a totally Free OO.org. The gcj JRE is a GPL-implementation of Java. Other Java Runtime Environments are proprietary." Here is a workaround (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=171692) to enable other JREs to work.
Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 1
Firefox 1.5 RC 1 (ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.5rc1/linux-i686/en-US/) has been released. According to its release note (http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/1.5.html), "Firefox 1.5 RC 1 is a test preview of our award-winning Web browser. Firefox 1.5 RC 1 is available for our testing community, Web site and Web application developers, and our Extension developers." Firefox 1.5 RC 1 RPM package is already available from Fedora Project Development (http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/Fedora/RPMS/) Tree.
How to configure DNS Server
Bimal Pandit wrote his first article on How to configure DNS Server for Fedora Core.
Fedora Core 4 Updates
During the week of October 31 - November 6, Fedora Project released 12 Fedora Core 4 Updates including 1 Security Advisory.
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