Fedora Weekly News Issue 39
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Written by Thomas Chung on 2006-03-27
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Welcome to our issue number 39 of Fedora Weekly News (FWN), the weekly newsletter for the Fedora community. The latest issue can always be found here.
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Announcing the release of Fedora Core 5
Fedora Project announced (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-March/msg00027.html) the official Fedora Core 5 release:
Fedora Core 5 is available at absolutely no cost. To download it: VIA BITTORRENT (RECOMMENDED): * http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/bordeaux-binary-i386.torrent * http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/bordeaux-binary-x86_64.torrent * http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/bordeaux-binary-ppc.torrent Visit the main Fedora download site listed below. You will be automatically redirected to a mirror of Fedora Core 5. There may be delays due to site congestion, especially in the days immediately following the release, so BitTorrent is recommended instead. * http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5
Here is the correction (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-March/msg00038.html) on the main Fedora download site for mirror:
That URL actually goes to a specific set of download sites. To be automatically redirected to a mirror of Fedora Core 5, please use: * http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/ Apologies for the inconvenience.
Congratulations from Fedora Project Leader
Max Spevack (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MaxSpevack), our new Fedora Project Leader would like to congratulate (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-March/msg00041.html) on successful release of Fedora Core 5:
I'd like to offer congrats and thanks to everyone who worked so hard to make this release possible -- the community contributors, all of the developers who worked tirelessly, the docs and translation teams, the marketing and ambassadors folks who help spread Fedora to the masses, the testing community, and everyone else who is involved. It's a great release, and I hope that everyone involved is proud of what we've accomplished.
He also would like to point (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2006-March/msg00183.html) out:
I wanted to take a second to point out some of the recent changes that have been made to the Fedora pages that are a part of http://www.redhat.com, coinciding with the release of fc5. If you take a look, you'll see that we are running a promo on the http://www.redhat.com homepage that announces the release of fc5, and that clicking through it will drive you to http://www.redhat.com/fedora which has also taken on a new look. The fc5 release is a big deal around here, and we're treating it as such.
Fedora Core 5 Now Available
Red Hat Press Release also announced (http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2006/fedora5.html) availability of Fedora Core 5:
The Fedora Project, a Red-Hat-sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration, today announced that the latest version of the popular Fedora Core Linux distribution, Fedora Core 5, is now available. Fedora Core 5 features the best in leading edge technologies, including new desktop applications, advances in security and Xen virtualization.
Thomas Chung (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung) of Fedora Project quotes:
"Fedora Core 5 is the first distribution I feel truly involved and excited by," said Thomas Chung, Fedora Community Ambassador. "I'm sure I share this feeling with many Fedora contributors who have witnessed the birth from the very beginning. I can almost feel what a expecting father will experience with his first child. Fedora Core 5 is truly a great accomplishment in technology."
Announcing FUDCon Boston 2006
Jack Aboutboul (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JackAboutboul) would like to make an official announcement (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-March/msg00044.html) for FUDCon Boston 2006:
Hot on the heels of the release of Fedora Core 5 and the success of previous FUDCon events worldwide, the Fedora Project is proud to announce FUDCon Boston 2006. FUDCon Boston 2006 will offer a wide range of speakers on an even wider range of topics, in three separate tracks, and is sure to have something for everyone. More Info can be found at: http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConBoston2006
Fedora Core 5 Feedbacks
Since the Fedora Core 5 Release, there have been a few good feedbacks. According to Tom Fitzsimmons's blog (http://fitzsim.org/blog/?p=11):
Apart from these minor annoyances I’m very happy with this release. The new installer worked well, bootup feels much faster, all my laptop’s hardware worked out-of-the-box, sleep-on-lid-close works, NetworkManager eliminates manual network management, a few simple steps allow GStreamer to provide good media support. I’m very pleased that release-by-release I require fewer and fewer hacks to make Fedora into a comfortable, complete environment. In most cases in the past, these hacks involved installing unintegrated proprietary software.
Also according to Christopher Blizzard's blog (http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=187):
This is the first release where suspend, resume and hibernate work out of the box. It’s incredibly reliable. I’ve had one crash on resume in the last couple of weeks where the video got screwed up and then the machine ate itself, but that’s a pretty good reliability record compared to where I was even a month ago. We made a strong last minute push to make suspend/resume work with a bunch of different kinds of laptops and video cards and made a huge amount of progress.
Macromedia Flash Yum Repository for FC5
Warren Togami (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/WarrenTogami) announced:
For users of Fedora Core who have upgraded to FC5, you may want to upgrade to flash-plugin-7.0.63-1 which properly handles integrating with firefox-1.5.x contained in FC5. http://macromedia.mplug.org/ I have an official agreement with Macromedia to repackage their binary for easy integration into Fedora and make it available in a yum repository here. You can easily keep up with this and future security updates by adding this yum repository to your /etc/yum.repos.d/.
Space Optimization for Fedora Core 6
Warren Togami (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/WarrenTogami) also would like point out (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-March/msg00853.html) that David Nielsen (mailto:david@lovesunix.net) has posted following research paper on space optimization for Fedora Core 6.
We talked briefly about this cirka mid-FC5 cycle and there seemed to be a general agreement that it was an area of optimization that was worth looking into. I've taken the liberty of backing up the research paper that grants us a bit of hard data on this and putting it on my webserver: http://lovesunix.net/spaceoptimization.pdf
ATrpms for FC5/i386 and FC5/x86_64
Axel Thimm with ATrpms (http://atrpms.net/) announced (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-March/msg00042.html):
ATrpms is officially launching Fedora Core 5 support for i386 and x86_64. http://ATrpms.net/dist/fc5/ ATrpms is a 3rd party general purpose package repository. It currently supports o FC5/i386, FC5/x86_64, FC4/i386, FC4/x86_64 FC3/i386, FC3/x86_64, FC2/i386, FC2/x86_64, FC1 o RHEL4/i386, RHEL4/x86_64, RHEL3/i386, RHEL3/x86_64 o RH9, RH8.0 and RH7.3
Fedora and Mono and OIN -- clarifications
Greg DeKoenigsberg (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GregDeKoenigsberg) points out in his blog (http://gregdek.livejournal.com/4008.html):
OIN is the Open Invention Network. Prominent members include Red Hat, Sony, Novell, IBM, and Philips. The idea behind OIN: throw a bunch of patents in a pool. Make those patents available to open source developers, and to companies who support open source developers. Mono is on the OIN list of "protected patents". Meaning, "if someone sues you for allegedly infringing a patent on this list, you can use any of the patents in OIN's arsenal to go after them."
Fedora Core 4 and 5 Updates
During the week of March 20 - March 26, Fedora Project released 9 Fedora Core 4 Updates (http://fedoranews.org/cms/FC4) including 1 Security Advisory.
During the week of March 20 - March 26, Fedora Project released 22 Fedora Core 5 Updates (http://fedoranews.org/cms/FC5) including 3 Security Advisory.
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