Fedora Weekly News Issue 15
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Issue Date: 2005-09-26
Welcome to our issue number 15 of Fedora Weekly News (FWN), the weekly newsletter for the Fedora community.
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Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 Released
This version (http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/1.0.7.html) includes several security and stability fixes, including a fix for a reported buffer overflow vulnerability and a fix for a Linux shell command vulnerability. Official RPM packages for Fedora Core 3 (http://fedoranews.org/blog/?p=901) and Fedora Core 4 have been released.
Unavoidable Xorg package update problems
This week there were two xorg-x11 Fedora Updates xorg-x11-6.8.2-37.FC4.48.1 and xorg-x11-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2 which caused some problem with certain video hardware. At the end, a note (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/XorgUpdateFix) from the Desk of the Fedora Xorg developers was issued to explain the situation.
News for ASUS K8N-DL owners
Warren Togami points out in this bugzilla (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=159078), the BIOS update fixes ACPI errors that caused a problem with FC4 on ASUS motherboard.
Fedora FAQ merger effort
Rahul Sundaram points (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2005-September/msg00220.html) out the effort on merging all the Fedora related FAQ's into the wiki.
Meeting Minutes for Fedora Documentation
Here is the Meeting Minutes (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2005-September/msg00079.html) for Fedora Documentation Project (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/) meeting on September 20, 2005
Meeting Minutes for Fedora Marketing
Here is the Meeting Minutes (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2005-September/msg00240.html) for Fedora Marketing (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing) meeting on September 22, 2005
Review: The Present and Future with Fedora Core 4
We found an interesting article (http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/6014/1/) from LinuxPlanet (http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/). They caught up with Richard Petersen to talk about his view of Fedora Core 4. He is the author of "Red Hat Enterprise and Fedora Core 4: The Complete Reference (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0072261544/)"
My Experience and Strategy in Migrating MS Windows to Linux
Fajar Priyanto has written his first article on our site. "This article is made with a purpose of giving a hint on strategy for migrating MS Windows to Linux, specifically using OpenOffice, Samba file server, and dosemu (DOS emulator)."
Tip of the Week
This week's Tip of the Week is "Tips for using vi/vim" by Tejas Dinkar.
Fedora Core 4 Updates
During the week of September 19 - September 25, Fedora Project released 16 Fedora Core 4 Updates including 1 Security Advisory.
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