Fedora Weekly News Issue 31
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Written by Thomas Chung on 2006-01-30
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Welcome to our issue number 31 of Fedora Weekly News (FWN), the weekly newsletter for the Fedora community. The latest issue can always be found here.
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Red Hat Magazine January 2006
Red Hat Magazine (http://www.redhat.com/magazine/) January 2006 Issue #15 is now available. According to Red Hat Magazine Editor's Blog (http://blogs.redhat.com/magazine/),
Red Hat's VP of Open Source Affairs shares his experiences (http://www.redhat.com/magazine/015jan06/features/asia/) traveling across Asia, realizing he's learned more from the best questions than the best answers. In an interview with Javed Tapia, VP, Red Hat, India (http://www.redhat.com/magazine/015jan06/features/tapia/) and an article by Rajesh Ranjan, Hindi Language Maintainer (http://www.redhat.com/magazine/015jan06/features/rhindia/), we learn what open source means to India and the many people and subcultures. Also, how does the open source movement flow in Malaysia (http://www.redhat.com/magazine/015jan06/features/malaysia/)...what's the market like in China (http://www.redhat.com/magazine/015jan06/features/rhchina/)?
Fedora Projects Weekly Report 2006-01-30
Every week, Community Contributors (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects/WeeklyReports/2006-Jan-30#contributions) from Fedora Project bring you the latest updates within the Fedora Project to you in a timely manner on major projects including Core, Extras, Docs, LiveCD, Ambassadors and Translation. Here is Fedora Projects Weekly Report 2006-01-30 (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects/WeeklyReports/2006-Jan-30).
If you like this report and would like to contribute towards it by adding more content, translate this report or cover one of the several Fedora sub projects, you can contact the Fedora Marketing (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing) team to help.
Fedora Reloaded Episode 4 Podcast
Joshua Wulf (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JoshuaWulf) reports in his blog (http://jwulf.livejournal.com/20089.html), Episode 4 of the Fedora Reloaded Podcast (http://www.fedorareloaded.com/?p=7) is now available. If you have an iPod and would like to subscribe to it, please see this readme (http://fedoranews.org/podcast/fedora_reloaded/readme.txt) written by me.
Fedora Core 5 Test 2 Screencast
Chris Haney (mailto:linclips@gmail.com) with LinClips.com (http://linclips.com/) reports in his email, "Fedora Core 5 Test 2 Screencast is now available at http://linclips.com/index.php?page=clip&id=1"
My desktop OS: Fedora Core 3: Feedback
NewsForge (http://www.newsforge.com/) published an article - My desktop OS: Fedora Core 3 (http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/01/16/1659245) - on January 24, 2006. Although the article seems a little outdated as Fedora Core 3 has been transferred to Fedora Legacy (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-January/msg00044.html) on January 16, 2006, Rahul Sundaram (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RahulSundaram) took his time to respond (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2006-January/msg00078.html) to the author.
Unofficial Fedora Core Starter Guide
Raivis Dejus (mailto:orvils@gmail.com) reports in his email,
This guide is intended mainly for people who are just starting to use Fedora Core and want to get started right away, but can be a great help for experienced one's too. The guide covers such things as: basic configuration, installation of most used additional software, basic server installations and some other tips & tricks. Guide is wiki-based, so everybody can contribute and keep it up-to-date. See Unofficial Fedora Core Starter Guide @ http://easylinux.info/wiki/Fedora
Choosing a desktop Linux distro
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols with Ziff Davis editor wrote an article on Choosing a desktop Linux distro (http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT3269115798.html). In this article, he mentions:
If you want to learn about Linux, and then get a job working with it, Red Hat's community distribution, Fedora is the desktop, not to mention server, for you. Red Hat Linux is, without question, the single most important business Linux. As fond as I am of some of the other distributions, if I had to make a living working on Linux tomorrow, I'd be working toward my RHCE (Red Hat Certified Engineer) certification as soon as possible.
HOWTO: Secure Your Box With Bastille
I found this article - HOWTO: Secure Your Box With Bastille (http://wolphination.com/linux/2006/01/04/how-to-secure-your-box-with-bastille/) - from LinuxToday (http://www.linuxtoday.com/security/2006012601026OSHLNT) on January 26, 2006 (the original article was published on January 4, 2006). It contains step-by-step screenshots from Fedora Core 3 for securing with Bastille.
Bastille (http://bastille-linux.org/) is a hardening tool which is very effective at locking down your system, and all it requires is a few minutes of your time! It is currently available for the major Linux distros. In this HOWTO I shall take you through the steps of installing it and setting it up properly in order to secure your system better than before.
Fedora Core 4 Updates
During the week of January 23 - January 29, Fedora Project released 4 Fedora Core 4 Updates including 1 Security Advisory.
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