Fedora Weekly News Issue 62 in French
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Welcome to our issue number 62 of Fedora Weekly News (FWN), the weekly newsletter for the Fedora community. The latest issue can always be found here.
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Inside Fedora Core 6
Rahul Sundaram (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RahulSundaram) wrote a review for Red Hat Magazine (http://www.redhat.com/magazine/024oct06/features/fc6/?sc_cid=bcm_edmsept_007):
Fedora Core 6 is about to be unleashed in a week and I decided to give our precious users an in-depth look and sneak peak at what we've been cooking up for this release. Fedora Core 6 includes installer improvements and catchy desktop effects. Better update notifications and fresh a new look and default font. Better I18N support and dramatic performance boosts throughout the distribution. Better virtualization and SELinux trouble-shooting capabilities. And much, much more.
Naming of Fedora Core 6
Jesse Keating (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JesseKeating) was interviewed by Red Hat Magazine (http://www.redhat.com/magazine/024oct06/features/rh_speaks/?sc_cid=bcm_edmsept_007):
With the last release (Fedora Core 5) we decided to let the community of Fedora contributors both supply a list of possible names and vote on the pre-cleared names to pick the release name. This tradition continued with Fedora Core 6, although the survey link got shared in many more places. With the next release of Fedora, we will be taking advantage of the hard work done on the Fedora Voting System which would restrict votes to those individuals whom have Fedora Accounts and thus are contributors in one way or another.
Announcing Dribble a new addon repo
Hans de Goede (mailto:j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl) wrote to us to announce new addon repo called Dribble:
Just a quick one-off note to those who may be interested in a new repo called Dribble for Fedora Core + Extras. It provides packages with a focus on fun distributable software, not already found in Core, Extras or Livna for various reasons such as their stricter legal requirements. For example, emulators, additional games and multimedia apps can be included in Dribble.
The repo aims to provide support for all 'current' versions of Fedora Core including devel, for i386, ppc and x86_64. Unlike other similar repos, Dribble won't replace, upgrade or obsolete any packages found in Core, Extras or Livna but is intended to work in conjunction with them, obviously Dribble is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by them.
Dribble bases its packaging and review process on that of Extras to help provide the same high quality packages as you're used to with Extras. If you're interested in helping out or using Dribble, please have a look at http://dribble.org.uk.
Red Hat Linux rises over Chicago
According to recent article posted at Linux.com (http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/10/05/159243):
The City of Chicago had always been a Sun shop, but when it was time to begin a hardware replacement cycle two years ago, platform architect Amy Niersbach knew the city needed to reduce costs without sacrificing quality. That's why she turned to Linux.
Niersbach has some advice for other city governments considering a move from proprietary infrastructures to Linux. "Do a proof of concept so that you feel completely comfortable. Some people just need to see it happening, as opposed to hearing from other people that it will work. We were very satisfied with the results."
Opening doors to open source for women
According to recent article posted at IT Manager's Journal (http://www.itmanagersjournal.com/feature/20990):
Pia Waugh, president of Software Freedom International, says finding a way to get involved in the community is the first step, and there are several avenues available. "I think some of the women initiatives, such as Debian Women, GNOME Women, Fedora Women, and Ubuntu Women, are great ways to start getting involved. [Women] can find great mentors there, information, and it gives them a launch pad into the wide world of FOSS. These organisations don't segment our community, they give yet another road in, and the more roads we give people to getting involved, the more people will follow them.
OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 Is Here
According to OpenOffice.org Announce List (http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=announce&msgNo=301):
This is Friday 13 October and the day marks two important events: the immediate availability of OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 and our sixth anniversary.
Six years ago today, OpenOffice.org was launched as an open-source project. Wikipedia [0] has an excellent timeline, and in the last OOoCon we presented on the State of the Project [1], but the basic fact is that in the last six years we have helped shape a new world. Tens of millions of people use OpenOffice.org daily; governments have or are considering mandating it or its open-standard file format, the OpenDocument format, or ODF; and all have saved hundreds of millions of dollars and taken significant steps to ensuring that data is not lost to proprietary technologies. No small accomplishment.
- [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org
- [1] http://www.openoffice.org/editorial/state_of_the_project_year_6.html
Fedora Weekly Reports 2006-10-09
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 October 09 - October 15, Fedora Project released 10 Fedora Core 5 Updates (http://fedoranews.org/cms/FC5) including 1 Security Advisory.
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