Fedora Weekly News Issue 27
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Issue Date: 2005-12-24
Welcome to our issue number 27 of Fedora Weekly News (FWN), the weekly newsletter for the Fedora community.
This issue is also available in the following languages: French
(Editor's Note: This FWN is the last issue for year 2005 until I'll be back from the vacation (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Vacation). Merry Christmas and Happy Fedora New Year!)
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Red Hat Magazine | December 2005
Red Hat Magazine December 2005 (Issue #14) is now available at http://www.redhat.com/magazine/ with great articles such as The making of the Fedora logo (http://www.redhat.com/magazine/014dec05/features/fedora/) by Alex Maier (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AlexMaier) and Fedora Ambassadors Program takes flight (http://www.redhat.com/magazine/014dec05/features/ambassadors/) by Greg DeKonigsberg (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GregDeKoenigsberg). Beginning this issue, The Fedora Status Report (http://www.redhat.com/magazine/014dec05/departments/fedora_status/) is an edited version of recent issues of Fedora Weekly News at fedoranews.org which is edited by Thomas Chung (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung) and contributions from anyone in the Fedora community.
Fedora Core 5 Test 2 slipping until January 16
Jesse Keating (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JesseKeating) reports in his message (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2005-December/msg00583.html), "We are going to try very hard to have a stable(ish) tree suitable for testing over the holidays, so that Test2 will be better for the slip and keep us in line with getting Test3 and eventually the final release out in the best shape possible." An updated PRELIMINARY Fedora Core 5 Schedule (http://fedora.redhat.com/About/schedule) is available now.
Fedora Logo Usage Update
Greg DeKoenigsberg (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GregDeKoenigsberg) reports in his message (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2005-December/msg00095.html), "I'm still waiting for lawyer time, and it'll be the new year before that happens, realistically -- so here's the usage guidelines: please send usage requests to logo@fedoraproject.org (mailto:logo@fedoraproject.org)" He also reports (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2005-December/msg00101.html) an interim Fedora Logo Policy (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/Logo) is available now.
Fedora Ambassadors Meeting Minutes
Thanks Alex Maier (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AlexMaier), Fedora Ambassadors Meeting Minutes for 2005-12-22 (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Meetings/2005-12-22) is available now. In this meeting, Ambassadors discussed upcoming Fedora Events (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents) and Ambassadors Steering Committee. "we all need to remember that two months before a show is already too late to participate in most shows."; "As the Ambassadors' numbers grow, we need a few (very likely 7) people to step up and help lead the group--and we will call them Steering Committee."
Open source in Africa
Elliot Lee (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ElliotLee) reports in his message (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2005-December/msg00102.html), "I stumbled upon go-opensource.org, which seems to be in touch with a lot of the open source stuff going on in Africa. All sorts of interesting projects and links underneath it. It's always neat to stumble upon a corner of the open source community you never knew existed. 
Fedora users and contributors - Unite
Rahul Sundaram (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RahulSundaram) points out in his blog (http://www.livejournal.com/users/rahulsundaram/2396.html), "http://frappr.com/fedora - For a cool group of Fedora users using google map is a nice way. http://frappr.com/fedoradev - For contributors to Fedora. All those wonderful developers, package maintainers in Core and Extras repository, documentation, bug triaging, QA, infrastructure, ambassadors, marketing and legacy release maintainers sign up here. Let the Fedora bulbs glow over the world."
Fedora Reloaded Podcast #3
Joshua Wulf (mailto:wulf@redhat.com) points out in his blog (http://www.livejournal.com/users/jwulf/17408.html), "This edition features an interview with Andy Fitzsimon, open source graphics designer, who will be speaking at Linux Conf AU 2006 in Dunedin, New Zealand, and Libre Graphics in Lyon, France. He is also currently designing the Fedora voice font, for use in all Fedora publications. Don't say that you never heard anything about it!"
Current Gotchas in OpenOffice.org
Caolan McNamara (mailto:caolanm@redhat.com) points out in his blog (http://blogs.linux.ie/caolan/2005/12/22/current-gotchas/), "The new gtk animated theme radiobuttons/checkboxes confuse the OOo gtk native theming. Untoggled radiobuttons will look drawn in, refreshing them will then make togged ones look untoggled; gcc 4.1 has changed the lib version of libgcj, OOo java bridge/testtools will claim there’s no java to be found.; OOo parallel build jar creation is not parallel safe, i.e. .jars can contain only MANIFEST.MF; OOo polygon drawing with xorg may cause a double-free segv"
Postfix mail server with SPAM and AntiVirus protection
Anze Vidmar has written Implementing a postfix mail server with SPAM and AntiVirus protection (http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/02/28/1515201). "This document describes the installation and configuration of postfix (MTA - mail transport agent), dovecot (secure open source IMAP and POP3 server for Linux/UNIX-like system), Spamassassin (powerful Open-Source Spam Filter), amavisd-new (high-performance interface between mailer (MTA) and content checkers: virus scanners, and/or SpamAssassin), squirrelmail (a standards-based webmail package written in PHP4), ClamAV (a GPL virus scanner)"
Fedora Core 4 Updates
During the week of December 19 - December 24, Fedora Project released 11 Fedora Core 4 Updates including 1 Security Advisory.
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