Fedora Weekly News Issue 3

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Issue Date: 2005-07-04

Welcome to our issue number 3 of Fedora Weekly News (FWN), the weekly newsletter for the Fedora community.

Table of contents

Status of Livna Repository

Damien Nadé, the maintainer of a Third Party Repository - Livna (http://rpm.livna.org/), is reporting his repository is over 90% ready with some structure changes on new faster build server.

JPackage Java for FC4

Paul Howarth has written a step-by-step instruction for building Java Package from jpackage.org for FC4

Bluetooth Dialup Networking for FC4

Dax Kelson with Guru Labs (http://www.gurulabs.com/) announced an excellent guide, how to get Internet access via a Bluetooth capable cell phone on FC4.

Caveats and Known Bugs on FC4

Rahul Sundaram reports some caveats with GCC4 and known bugs with certain chipsets and hardware on FC4.

FC3 to FC4 Upgrade Process Question

Here is an excellent reply by Rahul Sundaram when an user asks a question regarding SELinux during FC3 to FC4 upgrade.

More Fedora Core 4 Reviews

We found a few more Fedora Core 4 Reviews. Keep'em coming!

Up2date Issue on FC4

Have you noticed up2date is not reporting any updates available on FC4 regardless yum found several updates?

Flash Plugin Finder Serivce on FC4

Here is an alternative way of installing Flash Player using Plugin Finder Service for your firefox on FC4.

Tip of the Week

This week's Tip of the Week is "How To Assign Shortcut Keys" submitted by Darwin H. Webb.

Fedora Core 4 Updates

During the week of June 27-July 2, Fedora Project released 11 Fedora Core 4 Updates including 1 Security Advisory.

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