Fedora Weekly News Issue 8
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Issue Date: 2005-08-08
Welcome to our issue number 8 of Fedora Weekly News (FWN), the weekly newsletter for the Fedora community.
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Fedora Project booth at LinuxWorld San Franicsco
Karsten Wade (mailto:kwade@redhat.com) with Red Hat is reminding (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2005-August/msg00003.html) you to visit the Fedora Project booth at LinuxWorld San Franicsco. There will be short, booth-based presentations on subjects such as anaconda, kickstart, Fedora Extras, Fedora Directory Server, Java and FC4, and SELinux.
Auditd Initscript Reports Errors
Are you getting "There was an error in line 5 of /etc/audit.rules" during the boot or during auditd starts? You're not alone. It's been reported mailing list (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-August/msg00145.html) as well as bugzilla (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=163223).
Mozilla Foundation Forms New Organization
The Mozilla Foundation announced (http://www.mozilla.org/press/mozilla-2005-08-03.html) it has formed a wholly owned subsidiary to be known as the Mozilla Corporation. Christopher Blizzard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Blizzard) who is a member of the Mozilla Corporation Board of Directors as well as a Red Hat/Fedora Developer explains (http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/html/2005/08/#200508032005) what this means in his blog.
Mozilla 1.7.11 Released
Mozilla 1.7.11 has been released (http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.7.11/). This release fixes two regressions (http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.7.11/changelog.html) in Mozilla 1.7.10. The Official RPM build by Fedora Project is currently in working progess in Development Tree.
mplayerplug-in 3.05 Released
mplayerplug-in (http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/) 3.05 has been released (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=71239&package_id=70736&release_id=347117). Many fixes and improvements according to the changelog (http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=347117). As usual, RealMedia has been disabled by default in the RPM build.
Test de Fedora Core 4
We found another Fedora Core 4 Review (http://www.quebecos.com/modules/sections/index.php?op=viewarticle&artid=26) in French. Here is Google English Translation (http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.quebecos.com%2Fmodules%2Fsections%2Findex.php%3Fop%3Dviewarticle%26artid%3D26&langpair=fr%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools). In the conclusion, assuming Google Translation is correct, it says "All things considered, it is the hobbyist and the companies which will use this distribution suitably. For the use of the newcomers on Linux, it proves to be a cauchemard." Cauchemard? Nightmaire?
Cooperative Bug Isolation Project
Ben Liblit who is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison wanted to announce his project called The Cooperative Bug Isolation Project (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/). He also mentioned that they recently added prebuilt bug-hunting RPMs (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/downloads/) for Fedora Core 4, and the more users know about it, the more bugs they can find. To learn more about his project, please visit the web site (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/learn-more/).
Tip of the Week
This week's Tip of the Week is "Use a USB stick for Authentication" by Carlos Peraza.
Fedora Core 4 Updates
During the week of August 1 - August 7, Fedora Project released 13 Fedora Core 4 Updates including no Security Advisories.
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