Fedora Weekly News Issue 60 in Portuguese
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Welcome to our issue number 60 of Fedora Weekly News (FWN), the weekly newsletter for the Fedora community. The latest issue can always be found here.
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Max Spevack: Fedora on Slashdot
Max Spevack (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MaxSpevack) points out in his blog (http://spevack.livejournal.com/2306.html):
The results of the interview that I did with Slashdot went up today. I'm pleased with how it turned out. Judging from what I've seen in the comments so far, it's a good day for Fedora. Thanks to everyone who read the rough draft and helped with suggestions, etc.
Jesse Keating: Fedora Legacy Answers
JesseKeating (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JesseKeating) points out in his blog (http://jkeating.livejournal.com/29396.html):
Well, the obvious answer is I've started to move into Extras space (: Work is ongoing to integrate Legacy into the Extras build systems, CVS space, and in some way publish space. My goal is to be integrated shortly after FC6 launches and well before FC 5 goes into maintenance mode (when Legacy takes care of it). We already have a CVS system, the cvslegacy group in Fedora accounts, and soon we'll have plague /mock configs to use with in the Extras space. This should make it much easier for folks to contribute not just to Extras but to Legacy as well.
Rahul Sundaram: Red Hat and Intellectual Property Reform
Rahul Sundaram (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RahulSundaram) points out in his blog (http://rahulsundaram.livejournal.com/4838.html):
The developers have a strong commitment towards Free and open source software that should be clear to involve involved in http://fedoraproject.org but it's far from a smooth ride. There are internal challenges for example to make sure that trademarks as a form of intellectual property is not lost yet compatible with the needs of the Free software community and external continous changes in other fields with the rise of other forms of open content like music http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Music_Model or the site I have used to define it - Wikipedia are all signs of a continous change that we need to understand better.
Luke Macken: Teaching an old pup some new tricks
Luke Macken (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LukeMacken) points out in his blog (http://www.csh.rit.edu/~lewk/blog/2006/08/15/pup_enhancements):
Thanks to the previously mentioned core update metadata enhancements that I've been working on lately, we are now able to do some pretty neat stuff with our package updating tools. So last week I cranked out a bunch of code for Fedora's package updater (pup) and it's notification applet (puplet) to utilize this new enhanced metadata and actually provide the user with some useful information.
Tom Tromey: Fedora Core 6 Test 2
Tom Tromey (mailto:tromey@redhat.com) points out in his blog (http://tromey.com/blog/?p=261):
FC6 is shipping a new Eclipse — 3.2. This works pretty well; I found a bug or two and reported them, but nothing too serious. So far I haven’t explored many of the new features, but I did notice that I can now background “cvs diff” operations. I’ve been wanting that for a while...Overall FC6T2 looks quite good to me. I’m constantly amazed that this whole process (not Fedora, but the entire free software setup) produces good results — and yet it does, year after year.
XenSource CTO Talks Up Xen Virtualization
According to recent article published at E-Commerce News (http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/52397.html):
Watch for product from Red Hat -- Fedora Core 6 is almost ready, with the latest Xen bits. This will evolve into RHEL 5. Powerful new SMP (symmetric multi-processing) scheduling support, enhanced support for VT and AMD V processors, a new shadow page table implementation and impressive performance gains for HVM (hardware virtual machine) guests. There is a lot of testing to do, and the community is working very hard to increase the scope of guest support and feature set coverage as Xen goes to market. 2006 is all about Xen going to market.
OLPC laptops to debut with Thai kids
According to recnet article published at CNN (http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/ptech/08/17/100.dollar.laptops.ap/index.html):
The One Laptop Per Child program, which began at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab and now is a separate nonprofit organization, hopes to deploy 5 million to 7 million machines in Thailand, Nigeria, Brazil and Argentina in 2007. Thailand's government is expected to buy 1 million in the first year.
According to Christopher Blizzard (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ChristopherBlizzard):
Yeah, and this is the first olpc news that I've seen in a long time that's actually backed by some facts!
Where's Red Hat? Peek Under Fedora
According to recent article published at InternetNews (http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3626796):
Fedora Core 6 is slated for release on October 9th, and is expected to include a laundry list of visible and under the hood improvements to Red Hat's community distro. FC 6 is also expected to take advantage of the AIGLX framework for improved 3D graphics.Compiz will complement the existing Metacity window manager.Testing the Linux desktop is also expected to get a boost in FC6 with the Dogtail application, which is a graphical test and automation framework. Java integration improvements are also on deck in FC 6 by way of the GCJ Web plugin, which is designed to enable Java applets to run by default in Mozilla Firefox. FC 6 also takes a stab at internationalization support. FC 6 will also sport a management tool for Xen Virtualization, which was introduced in the current Fedora Core 5 build.
Fedora Weekly Reports 2006-08-14
We have a new effort in place to report The Board news as well as Meeting Minutes from each sub-project for Fedora community to gather information on the happenings in the Fedora universe in a easily digestible and referenceable format.
Fedora Core 5 Updates
During the week of August 14 - August 20, Fedora Project released 55 Fedora Core 5 Updates (http://fedoranews.org/cms/FC5) including 2 Security Advisories.
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