Fedora Weekly News Issue 5
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Issue Date: 2005-07-18
Welcome to our issue number 5 of Fedora Weekly News (FWN), the weekly newsletter for the Fedora community.
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Join Fedora at LinuxWorld in San Francisco
Fedora Project would like to invite you to join Fedora Booth at the Linux World San Francisco 2005.
Regarding Recent Kernel Update on FC4
Dave Jones, a kernel developer at Red Hat made a special announcement with an advice if you have a problem with recent kernel update on FC4.
ATrpms for FC4/i386 and FC4/x86_64
Axel Thimm announced ATrpms (http://atrpms.net/) is officially launching Fedora Core 4 support for i386 and x86_64
Creating a Fedora Core 4 LiveCD
Dirk Westfal has written an article on creating a basic *console-only* Fedora Core 4 based LiveCD which will be a foundation for Fedora Live CD generator project (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LiveCD).
Thomas Guide: RealPlayer
Thomas Chung has written a step-by-step screenshot-based guide to install RealPlayer for a Linux Newbie. He also discusses how to solve dependency issue with yum.
Review: Fedora Core 4
Here is another review (http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/07/11/2327248.shtml?tid=2) we found this week. The author says "In the end, the massive multimedia problems and the inclusion of the beta version of OpenOffice.org make this distribution seem more like a polished test release than a stable operating system."
Firefox 1.0.5 Released
Mozilla foundation released Firefox 1.0.5 (http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/1.0.5.html) with several security fixes (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#Firefox) and Improvements to stability. We are expecting an official RPM version from Fedora Project within a week.
FUDCon in London?
It seems we are going to have our next FUDCon (http://fedoraproject.org/fudcon/) in London (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2005-July/msg00094.html) early week in October. Here are two reasons (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2005-July/msg00099.html) why we are not having FUDCon in San Francisco.
Tip of the Week
This week's Tip of the Week is "Make FC4 DVD out of FC4 CDs" submitted by Igor Kuharchuck (mailto:igorkblr@mail.ru)
Fedora Core 4 Updates
During the week of July 11 - July 16, Fedora Project released 24 Fedora Core 4 Updates including 3 Security Advisories.
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