Fedora Weekly News Issue 17
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Issue Date: 2005-10-10
Welcome to our issue number 17 of Fedora Weekly News (FWN), the weekly newsletter for the Fedora community.
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Firefox 1.5 Beta 2 released
According to the release notes (http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/1.5beta2.html), Firefox 1.5 Beta 2 is available for our early adopter community, Web site and Web application developers, and our Extension developers. Here is the list of notable bug fixes (http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/releases/1.5b2.html) since Firefox 1.5 Beta 1. RPM package (http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/Fedora/RPMS/firefox-1.5-0.5.0.beta2.i386.rpm) is already available from Fedora Development Tree.
OOoCon Interviews & Keynotes
The 2005 OOoCon was a fabulous success. As John McCreesh, Co-Lead of Marketing put it, "I'd like to pass on the thanks of the entire OpenOffice.org community to the organisers of (in my opinion) the best-ever OOoCon. Here is the OpenOffice.org Conference Media (http://ooocon-ljudmila.kiberpipa.org/media) coverage.
Announcing Dogtail
Christopher Blizzard (mailto:blizzard@0xdeadbeef.com) reports in his blog (http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/html/2005/10/#200510071031) that "For a very long time our desktop QA folks have been trying to figure out how to automate testing of entire apps, not just doing the piecemeal unit testing that often fails to find problems in an app itself." Dogtail (http://people.redhat.com/zcerza/dogtail/index.html) is the Desktop GUI Tester for Linux. It is a GUI test tool and automation framework written in Python that uses Accessibility (a11y) technologies to communicate with desktop applications. Here are many interesting Media (http://people.redhat.com/zcerza/dogtail/media.html) examples.
Fedora Security Basics
Stuart Ellis (mailto:stuart@elsn.org) reports (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2005-October/msg00002.html) that his DRAFT: Fedora Security Basics (http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/SecurityBasics) needs a review. "This page is intended as a stopgap to cover the basic stuff until tutorials/Guides are released, in particular the what about viruses question that pops up semi-regularly."
Yumex 0.42-6 released for FC4
Tim Lauridsen (mailto:tla@rasmil.dk) released yumex 0.42-6 for Fedora Core 4. This release adds Japanese translation as well a fix for French translation. For more information, see the ChangeLog (http://fedoraproject.org/extras/4/i386/repodata/repoview/yumex-0-0.42-6.0.fc4.html).
Setting up Linux iSCSI on FC4
Anze Vidmar has written an article on Setting up Linux iSCSI on FC4. "This article covers everything form building iSCSI target on FC4 to configuring a Windows client to be a iSCSI Initiator."
Updated Fedora Core 4 ISO for PPC
David Woodhouse (mailto:dwmw2@infradead.org) once again updated Fedora Core 4 ISO for PPC with Fedora Core 4 Updates 2005-09-27. "This is a release made from Fedora Core 4 with the current errata and a few installer fixes backported from rawhide to allow installation on the Pegasos, and fix some bugs with installation on Mac and pSeries hardware" The ISOs are available at Supported Power PCs (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SupportedPowerPC) Fedora Wiki Page.
Fedora Core 4 Updates
During the week of October 3 - October 9, Fedora Project released 19 Fedora Core 4 Updates including 1 Security Advisory.
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