Fedora Weekly News Issue 10

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Issue Date: 2005-08-22

Welcome to our issue number 10 of Fedora Weekly News (FWN), the weekly newsletter for the Fedora community.

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Red Hat Magazine Issue 10

Red Hat Magazine (http://www.redhat.com/magazine/) Issue 10 is available. Fedora Project releated articles inlclude Focus on Fedora Extras (http://www.redhat.com/magazine/010aug05/features/extras/) by Tim Waugh and Building the Fedora Foundation: Goals established (http://www.redhat.com/magazine/010aug05/features/fedora_foundation/) as well as Fedora Status Report (http://www.redhat.com/magazine/010aug05/departments/fedora_status/).

Meeting Minutes for Fedora Documentation

Here is the Meeting Minutes (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2005-August/msg00019.html) for Fedora Documentation (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject) meeting on August 16, 2005. FDSCo stands for Fedora Documentation Steering Committee (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/SteeringCommittee).

Meeting Minutes for Fedora Marketing

Here is the Meeting Minutes (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2005-August/msg00192.html) for Fedora Marketing (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing) meeting on August 19, 2005.

Need more speakers for FUDCon London 2005

Alex Maier (mailto:lxmaier@gmail.com) reports (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2005-August/msg00120.html) Fedora Project needs more speakers for FUDCon London 2005 in order to fill the two tracks. See "Call for Presentations" at FUDCon (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon) page for more information.

Calling All Linux User Groups

Rahul Sundaram reports (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2005-August/msg00156.html) Fedora Project is calling All Linux User Groups to fill out Fedora Project LUG (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LUG) page. The project will use the information to contact your LUG regarding several projects and organising Fedora conferences in your area or arranging speakers for your LUG's events.

Setting up GnoCHM reader on FC4

Anze Vidmar has written an article on GnoCHM (http://gnochm.sourceforge.net/) which is a CHM file viewer for Gnome. CHM is the file extension for Microsoft Compressed HTML Help files and ChemDraw Chemical Structure files.

Which Services Can I Disable?

Tejas Dinkar has written an article on Services (Daemon) on Fedora Core Systems. Read the description of the Services to see if you need it or not.

Tip of the Week

This week's Tip of the Week is "How to Chart Your Boot Process" by Marlon Bastida.

Adobe Reader Security Advisory

Adobe has discovered a buffer overflow in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader. This issue has been addressed and a product update is available to proactively mitigate potential malicious activity. For Linux, Adobe Reader 7.0.1 (http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html) is available to address this advisory. For, more information, please visit http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/321644.html

Fedora Core 4 Updates

During the week of August 15 - August 21, Fedora Project released 7 Fedora Core 4 Updates including 1 Security Advisory.

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