Fedora Weekly News Issue 40
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Written by Thomas Chung on 2006-04-03
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Welcome to our issue number 40 of Fedora Weekly News (FWN), the weekly newsletter for the Fedora community. The latest issue can always be found here.
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FC5 SELinux FAQ has been published
Dan Walsh points out in his blog (http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/3430.html), the document for SELinux FAQ has been published at:
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-faq-fc5
Here is a list of topics in his series of tutorials "SELinux for Dummies" in his blog (http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/):
* 2006-03-31 Managing File Context (http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/4208.html) * 2006-03-28 SELinux Application: Config files (http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/3687.html) * 2006-03-24 SELinux Config Files: /etc/selinux/config (http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/3144.html) * 2006-03-23 SELinux Applications: Login Process (http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/2983.html) * 2006-03-22 Key components of SELinux: Applications (part 2) (http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/2639.html) * 2006-03-21 Key components of SELinux: Applications (part 1) (http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/2317.html) * 2006-03-20 Whats new in Fedora Core 5, from SELinux???? (http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/2213.html) * 2006-03-17 How does SELinux enforce policy? (http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/2018.html) * 2006-03-16 SELinux for Dummies (http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/1538.html)
Here is Fedora SELinux Project Pages (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SELinux)
Red Hat also posted a flash video for an overview course on SELinux (http://www.redhat.com/v/swf/SELinux/).
Fedora Tracker lives again!
Brad Smith reports in his message (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2006-April/msg00069.html) in fedora-list:
Fedora Tracker (http://www.fedoratracker.org) has been... less than useful since FC4 came out and Yum switched to using XMl-based metadata. At the time I was just too busy with my work at Red Hat to add support for it to the backend so most repositories didn't get indexed. Fortunately that's now changed. For those unfamiliar with Fedora Tracker, it aims to be a search engine indexing all Fedora yum repositories on the net.
FC5 Flash Font bug and workaround
Here is a font bug and workaround for flash on FC5 found FAQ (http://macromedia.mplug.org/faq.html#font)
Most text is failing to display on Flash sites!
The plugin has bugs where it makes bad assumptions about the font configuration.
For this reason, it fails to find fonts on newer versions of X.org. You can
workaround this problem in the short-term by using these commands as root.
mkdir -p /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/
ln -s /etc/X11/fs/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/config
Read Red Hat Bugzilla #184028 (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=184028) for more information about this problem.
Ultimately Macromedia must fix this bug in a future version of their plugin.
As a reminder, you can install Flash plugin for FC5 as following:
How do I setup yum to install this package automatically on Fedora? Fedora yum users, simply save this file (http://macromedia.mplug.org/macromedia-i386.repo) in /etc/yum.repos.d/ then type yum install flash-plugin
Fedora's Way Forward
With recent controversial post (http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-devel-list/2006-March/msg01286.html) by ESR, here is a response from Greg DeKoenigsberg in his blog (http://gregdek.livejournal.com/4343.html):
From where I sit, the freedom to advance Fedora without the pressure to monetize it is the best thing about the Fedora/RHEL partnership. With RHEL, we're pragmatic and tough-minded. We provide value to big customers. We close big deals. We help to grow the broader open source marketplace. We employ lots of people -- more every day. .. Fedora's Way Forward is to hold true to the ideals that got us this far. They're the ideals that made Sun and Novell change their entire business models to keep up. If it takes us a little longer to conquer the consumer desktop with these ideals -- well, so be it. Time is on our side.
Here is more response (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-April/msg00118.html) for ESR's post:
Red Hat instead uses *REALISTIC* means with its relatively small resources (compared to the big pro-patent industry players) to slowly maneuver in long-term strategic actions against software patents on a global scale. .. Red Hat spends resources worldwide to fight software patents being ratified (like in Europe), and protects some OSS today within the current broken system through these business alliances. Red Hat itself files for its own patents, but by our "Patent Promise", these patents are used in defense of OSS. Any OSS has a perpetual, irrevocable royalty free right to use it. The patent submission process is not cheap.
Thinkpad, Thinkpad, Thinkpad
Despite all, this post (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-March/msg01251.html) by ESR might be useful for some:
Works on an X40 as well. I'll add this workaround to the bug I entered; also at my HOWTO, <http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/Fedora-Core-on-Thinkpad-X40/>
Ogg, Ogg, Ogg
Here is a list of stories related to Ogg Vorbis (http://www.vorbis.com/) and Ogg Theora (http://www.theora.org/) this week:
* SearchOpenSource.com: Ogg Vorbis: Music to your ears (http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid39_gci1174338,00.html) * Toshio Kuratomi: Ogg Radio (http://www.advogato.org/person/badger/diary.html?start=30) * Linux.com: Get Thoggen, and leave your DVDs at home (http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/03/22/2124208)
Fedora Core 5 Reviews
Here is a list of Fedora Core 5 reviews collected for last two weeks:
* http://theweeklyrant.com/article/6/rant-of-the-week-trashing-fedora * http://kaiwai.blogspot.com/2006/04/fedora-core-5-review-although-earlier.html * http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=14111 * http://www.linuxforums.org/reviews/fedora_core_5_review.html * http://lunapark6.com/?p=481 * http://beranger.org/index.php?article=733
Textbooks on OpenOffice.org Published
LinuxElectonics reports (http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20060329104106859):
An increasing number of schools in the U.S. and worldwide are using and teaching OpenOffice.org, a free, open-source suite of word processing, presentation, spreadsheet, and database programs. To serve these schools, Visibooks (http://www.visibooks.com/) has published the first series of textbooks that help students learn OpenOffice.org programs.
Distribution Smackdown
TUX Magazine Issue #12 (http://www.tuxmagazine.com/node/1000189) (April Issue) has a feature article with several distributions including Fedora Core 5 reviewed by Dee-Ann LeBlanc. Subscriptions (http://www.tuxmagazine.com/xstatic/subs) are absolutely FREE!
Fedora Core 4 and 5 Updates
During the week of March 27 - April 02, Fedora Project released 8 Fedora Core 4 Updates (http://fedoranews.org/cms/FC4) including 0 Security Advisory.
During the week of March 27 - April 02, Fedora Project released 24 Fedora Core 5 Updates (http://fedoranews.org/cms/FC5) including 1 Security Advisory.
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