Fedora Weekly News Issue 28
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Issue Date: 2006-01-09
Welcome to our issue number 28 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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Fedora Community Survey Results
Tim Burke (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/TimBurke) reports in his message (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2006-January/msg00001.html), "a sincere thanks to all who participated in the survey. The results of this survey are hung off the fedoraproject.org marketing (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/Fedora) page under a feedback section." Here is the summary (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraImprovementsSurveySummary).
Long-term plan for Fedora logo usage
Greg DeKoenigsberg (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GregDeKoenigsberg) points out in his message (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2006-January/msg00000.html), "Once I've got a good sample, I'll take these typical cases to counsel, and we'll build a clickthru usage policy. People will be able to read a set of very basic guidelines, agree to them, give us contact information, and then they will be granted logo images and permission automatically." Current Logo Policy can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/Logo
Looking for Fedora LiveCD Developers
Thijs Hulshof (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThijsHulshof) announces in his email, "The Fedora Project is looking for developers to help with the LiveCD (http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/LiveCD). A few developers have been working on Kadischi (http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Kadischi), a tool for generating Fedora-based LiveCD. Kadischi is currently ready for use. Now it's time to create an official LiveCD for the Fedora Project. If you think you can contribute, send a message to the fedora-livecd-list (http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list) ! Knowledge of Anaconda will be appreciated."
RFC: kernel-modules in Fedora Extras
Thorsten Leemhuis (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThorstenLeemhuis) reports in his message (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2006-January/msg00014.html), "The Fedora Extras Steering Committee (FESCo) agreed on a standard for packaging kernel-modules in Fedora Extras. To look at the details see this mail (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2006-January/msg00219.html). The last chance to comment on it before it is getting used in devel/FC5 is: Now. Please use fedora-extras-list (http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list) for the discussion "
Interview with kde-redhat Project Leader
Rahul Sundaram (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RahulSundaram) reports in his message (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2006-January/msg00004.html), "Rex Dieter of the KDE Red Hat third party repository has been interviewed in Dot KDE (http://dot.kde.org/1136226311/). An interesting interview for those want to know more about the details behind the formation of this repository, people working on it, differences with the formal Fedora KDE packages and a potential avenue for better collaboration in the future."
Event Location Change for SCALE
Ilan Rabinovitch (mailto:ilan@socallinuxexpo.org) reports in his email (http://mail.socallinuxexpo.com/pipermail/scale-planning/2006-January/000051.html), "For various reasons we had to move the event from the Westin, down the street to the Radisson. A few announcements went out last week on this issue, and you should be seeing another one shortly." Our Fedora Project SCALE (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/SCALE) planning wiki page has been updated to reflect the change.
Rescue ISO files for FC5
Jesse Keating (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JesseKeating) ponts out in his blog (http://www.livejournal.com/users/jkeating/12740.html), "I proposed that we start generating rescue.iso files for each arch we support in the nightly rawhide rolls. This will allow users to use this CD to boot into a rescue env w/out having to download the large stage2 stuff."
Linux happenings in '06
Chitlesh Goorah (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ChitleshGoorah) reports in his message (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2006-January/msg00006.html), "Users of Red Hat's free Fedora Core operating system will get an upgrade when Version 5 of the software is released. The new code will include Xen virtualization software - a precursor of more to come from Red Hat in '06 - as well as an SELinux security package and a LDAP directory administration tool." For detail, see NetworkWorld (http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/linux/2006/0102linux1.html).
Installing NVIDIA drivers manually on FC4
Andre Costa has written an article on Installing NVIDIA drivers manually on FC4, "Installing NVIDIA Linux driver (http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html) when a new driver or kernel version comes out can be a somewhat complicated task (been there, done that...), and it's common to see lots of questions about it on Fedora forums...So, if for any reason you find yourself in need to tackle with NVIDIA driver installation with your bare hands, hopefully this mini-HOWTO will help you down the road."
Fedora Core 4 Updates
During the week of January 02 - January 08, Fedora Project released 11 Fedora Core 4 Updates including 4 Security Advisories.
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