Fedora Weekly News Issue 26
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Issue Date: 2005-12-19
Welcome to our issue number 26 of Fedora Weekly News (FWN), the weekly newsletter for the Fedora community.
This issue is also available in the following languages: French
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Interview with Red Hat's New CTO
GCN.com (http://www.gcn.com/) interviewed (http://www.gcn.com/24_34/interview/37699-1.html) with Red Hat's New CTO - Brian Stevens (http://www.redhat.com/en_us/USA/home/company/news/prarchive/2005/stevensceo.html). He discuses "Virtualization (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tools/xen)" and "Stateless Linux (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/StatelessLinux)" which will be standard features of Fedora Core.
Special Promo Code for SCALE
Thanks to Gareth Greenaway (mailto:gareth@socallinuxexpo.org), a special promo code - FDORA - was given to Fedora Community to receive 50% off when you purchase tickets for SCALE (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/SCALE). The fourth annual Southern California Linux Expo (http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/location.php) will be held on Saturday and Sunday, February 11-12, 2006, at the Westin Los Angeles Airport in Los Angeles, California.
Beginner Tutorials needed for SCALE
Ilan Rabinovitch (mailto:ilan@socallinuxexpo.org) announces (http://mail.socallinuxexpo.com/pipermail/scale-planning/2005-December/000034.html), "SCALE (http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/location.php) is currently in need of sessions and tutorials specifically geared at new users to Linux and open-source. If you are interested in speaking or running one of these sessions please see the CFP (Call For Papers (http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/pr/pr_20050620.php)) below (http://mail.socallinuxexpo.com/pipermail/scale-planning/2005-December/000034.html)."
Uninet Fedora Conference
Rahul Sundaram (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RahulSundaram) points out in his message (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2005-December/msg00077.html), "IRC meet logs (http://umeet.uninet.edu/umeet2005/talks/?lang=en&s=fedora) and Questions and answers (http://umeet.uninet.edu/umeet2005/talks/?lang=qc&s=fedora) for Uninet Fedora Conferences (http://umeet.uninet.edu/umeet2005/english/prog.html) on December 15th are now available." Greg DeKoenigsberg, Rik van Riel and Warren Togami participated to discuss Fedora Project.
Fedora Ambassadors Meeting Minutes
Thanks to David Barzilay (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DavidBarzilay), Fedora Ambassadors Meeting Minutes for 2005-12-15 (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Meetings/2005-12-15) is available. Upcoming Events, Promotional Material, Official Ambassadors, Steering Committee and other issues were discussed during the IRC meeting. The next meeting will be held on Thursday December 22, 2005, 14:00 UTC (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2005&month=12&day=22&hour=14&min=0&sec=0).
NetworkManager WPA Status
Dan Williams (mailto:dcbw@redhat.com) reports in his blog (http://www.iceni.org/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi//2005/12/14#NetworkManager_WPA_Status_2005_12_14), "NetworkManager HEAD will likely be in high-flux in the next week and probably won't work correctly. We should try to at least keep it buildable, but it's likely that the D-BUS API will be trashed until things settle down, which is almost as bad."
GNOME 2.13.3 Development Release
John Palmieri (mailto:johnp@redhat.com) reports in his blog (http://www.martianrock.com/?p=174), "GNOME 2.13.3 has been released. This is our third development release on our road towards GNOME 2.14.0, which will be released in March 2006."
Fedora Time Bug
A.P. Lawrence (http://www.aplawrence.com/) has written an interesting article on Fedora Time Bug (http://www.webpronews.com/expertarticles/expertarticles/wpn-62-20051214FedoraTimeBug.html), "The question of setting time comes up frequently. Setting the timezone and the system clock can be confusing, particularly if the machine is dual boot."
Helix-powered Rhapsody.com launched
Kevin Foreman (mailto:kevinf@real.com) announces (http://lists.helixcommunity.org/pipermail/player-announce/2005-December/000032.html), "Last week Real launched the beta Helix-powered Rhapsody.com (http://rhapsody.com/)...offers consumers a free and legal way to find and play full length songs from all the major music labels...for the first time makes Rhapsody available to Linux and Mac users."
Fedora Core 4 Updates
During the week of December 12 - December 18, Fedora Project released 36 Fedora Core 4 Updates including 6 Security Advisories.
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