Fedora Weekly News Issue 23
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Issue Date: 2005-11-21
Welcome to our issue number 23 of Fedora Weekly News (FWN), the weekly newsletter for the Fedora community.
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Fedora Community Survey
A request has been sent out from Red Hat to gather feedback from the community. "Fedora general improvements input survey invitation"
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2005-November/msg00319.html
Boston FUDCon 2006
Matthew Miller (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MatthewMiller) points out in his message (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2005-November/msg00175.html), "We are preliminarily go for FUDCon Boston 2006, on April 7th, after the big LinuxWorld Conference & Expo (http://linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A)."
New Features Coming in moin 1.5
Seth Vidal (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SethVidal) points out in his message (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-websites-list/2005-November/msg00133.html), "the moin developers are working on a 1.5.0 final. The betas have been out for a little while now and they appear to be stabilizing." See MoinMoin 1.5 Todo/Release Notes (http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinTodo/Release_1.5) for a list of upcoming features.
Fedora netdev Kernels
According to John W. Linville (mailto:linville@redhat.com)'s announcement (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-November/msg00047.html), "The kernels available there are based upon the standard Fedora kernels, with the addition of current upstream networking patches which are more recent than the Fedora kernel's upstream base. More information is available here (http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/fedora-netdev/)."
First Fedora Ambassadors Meeting
Fedora Amabassadors (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors) had their first ever meeintig via IRC on 2005-11-17 at 14:00 UTC (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2005&month=11&day=17&hour=14&min=0&sec=0). Thanks to Greg DeKoenigsberg (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GregDeKoenigsberg), here is the meeting minute (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Meetings/2005-11-17). Regular meetings for Fedora Ambassadors take place on freenode (http://freenode.net/) in #fedora-mktg. The next meeting (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Meetings) will take place on 2005-11-24 at 14:00 UTC (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2005&month=11&day=24&hour=14&min=0&sec=0).
Fedora Logo on distrowatch.com
According to Chitlesh Goorah's blog (http://clunixchit.blogspot.com/2005/11/fedora-new-logo.html), "I just came across the new logo on distrowatch.com (http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=fedora). Things are going better for FC. Cheers to the Fedora Community."
New Favicon on fedoraproject.org
Speaking of Fedora Logo, favicon for fedoraproject.org (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/) has been replaced with new one. Here is a related bugzilla (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=173468). If you don't see it at the moment, please clear the cache from preferences in your browser.
How to build rpm for kmenu-gnome
Chitlesh Goorah has written an article on How to build rpm for kmenu-gnome. "kmenu-gnome is simply K Menu with Gnome folder and extra icons for KDE 3.2 or later."
Building a Simple Calendar Server with Fedora
Joost Soeterbroek has written his first article on Building a Simple Calendar Server with Fedora and WebDAV. "Would you like to be able to view and edit your personal calendar and todo items from any location location? It is relatively easy to set up and configure your own 'calendar server' on Fedora using just the Apache (http://www.apache.org/) webserver and WebDAV (http://www.webdav.org/)."
Set up the VNC Server in Fedora
Raoul (http://www.raoul.shacknet.nu/about-raoul/) has published an article about Set up the VNC Server in Fedora (http://www.raoul.shacknet.nu/2005/11/10/configure-vnc-server-in-fedora/). "This article describes in brief how to configure VNC server instances for one or multiple users on a remote machine, how to use VNC to start graphical applications on boot and finally how to enhance security by connecting to the server through encrypted SSH tunnels."
Flash Player 7.0.61 Released
Macromedia released a security update for Flash Player to fix a security vulnerability (http://macromedia.com/devnet/security/security_zone/mpsb05-07.html). "A vulnerability in Macromedia Flash Player 7 has been identified that could allow the execution of arbitrary code." New updated release is available to download from their download site (http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash).
Firefox 1.5 RC 3 Released
Mozilla Foundation released Firefox 1.5 RC3. According to its release notes (http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/1.5.html), "Firefox 1.5 RC 3 is available for our testing community, Web site and Web application developers, and our Extension developers." Tarball is available to download from their ftp site (ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.5rc3/linux-i686/en-US/). RPM package is already available from our development (http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/Fedora/) tree.
Fedora Core 4 Updates
During the week of November 14 - November 20, Fedora Project released 9 Fedora Core 4 Updates including 4 Security Advisories.
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