Fedora Weekly News Issue 6

Red Hat Magzine (http://www.redhat.com/magazine/) July 2005 issue has been published. Noticeable articles are 4 videos from Red Hat Summit keynotes (http://www.redhat.com/magazine/009jul05/features/summit/) and 3 pictures from FUDCon2 Karlsruhe, Germany Coverage (http://www.redhat.com/magazine/009jul05/features/fudcon2/). Also an exellent report on Fedora Status (http://www.redhat.com/magazine/009jul05/departments/fedora_status/).

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Fedora BugZappers Triage Team

Fedora Project officially launched (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-July/msg00077.html) Fedora BugZappers (http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers) Triage Team. To discuss issues of Fedora triage policy and/or procedure, new ideas and bug day events, you can join its mailing list (http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-triage-list).

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FUDCon London, 2005

It's Official. FUDCon London 2005, the third gathering of Fedora Users and Developers, will be held at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo UK, on the 6th of October in London (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London), UK. FUDCon (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon) will feature presentations from prominent members of the Fedora Project, both from Red Hat and from the Fedora community.

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Introducing Deer Park

Christopher Aillon, lead browser developer with Red Hat/Fedora Project has written an article about the next generation browser, code named Deer Park (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/deerpark/releases/alpha2.html). He also reports (http://christopher.aillon.org/blog/dev/mozilla/20050718-candidate106.html) Deer Park Alpha 2 is included in rawhide (Fedora Development Tree) as of a few days ago.

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Rev'ing up Your Backups

David Both, an RHCE, has written an excellent article about backup solution with Iomega REV Drive (http://www.iomega.com/na/products/family-save.jsp?FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=16006169&ASSORTMENT%3C%3East_id=63191) and a special Backup Shell Script.

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Thomas Guide: Remote Desktop

Thomas Chung has written a step-by-step screenshot-based guide to setup Remote Desktop on Fedora Core 4 and trouble shoot any problem.

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Current Status of Nrpms.net

We asked Matthew Hall (mailto:matt@nrpms.net) with Nrpms.net (http://nrpms.net) a short description of his repository and the Current Status of Nrpms.net for FC4.

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Firefox 1.0.6 Released

Mozilla foundation released Firefox 1.0.6 (http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/1.0.6.html) with several security fixes (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#Firefox) and Improvements to stability. Official Firefox RPM (http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/i386/firefox-1.0.6-1.1.fc4.i386.rpm) package has been released with Security Advisory by Fedora Project and they should be available from your local yum repository. We adivse everyone to update Firefox to the latest version. Here is a reason (http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=6950/) why new release was necessary in less than a week.

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mplayerplug-in 3.01 Released

Kevin DeKorte (mailto:kdekorte@users.sourceforge.net) released mplayerplug-in (http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/) 3.01 (http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=343831) after my own crash report with Firefox. Here is 3.01 developer note (http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=7785139&forum_id=21800) which includes new options. Here is FC4 RPM package (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=71239&package_id=70736&release_id=343831) with Real Media enabled. If you prefer FC4 RPM package with Real Media disabled, see Stanton Finley's Installaion Guide.

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Safe way to remove old kernels

Is there a proper way to remove old kernels in FC4? Matthew Miller (mailto:mattdm@mattdm.org) recommends (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-July/msg03671.html) a utility called yum-utils (http://fedoraproject.org/extras/4/i386/repodata/repoview/yum-utils-0-0.2-2.fc4.html) and explains how to use it.

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Critical Bug from Livna Fixed

Dams Nadé (mailto:anvil@livna.org) with Livna Repo (http://rpm.livna.org/) reports (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-July/msg00075.html) a critical bug has been fixed in the nvidia-glx packages from rpm.livna.org in the last release of our package.

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