Fedora Weekly News Issue 24
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Issue Date: 2005-12-05
Welcome to our issue number 24 of Fedora Weekly News (FWN), the weekly newsletter for the Fedora community.
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Red Hat Magazine - November 2005
Red Hat Magazine (http://www.redhat.com/magazine/) November issue is now available. "This month we pick up where our first issue began--with Fedora Project. We offer advice on how to get involved in the Fedora community, an in-depth review of five Fedora books, and a Fedora Extras Focus highlighting gDeskCal, revelation, and meld. Also this month, what Sisyphus and security have in common, weigh in on Linux and the desktop, plus a look back at Red Hat's early days. And don't miss out on part 2 of integrating applications into the desktop." Please note, our Fedora Weekly News is mentioned in the Fedora Status Report (http://www.redhat.com/magazine/013nov05/departments/fedora_status/). 
FC5 Test 1 Announcement and Reviews
Since Fedora Core 5 Test 1 Announcement (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-November/msg00064.html), there have been already several reviews (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/PressArchive) as well as tidbits (http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20051121) from distrowatch.com (http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20051128) reported (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2005-November/msg00185.html) by Rahul Sundaram (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RahulSundaram). For those who haven't seen it yet, screenshots (http://fossplanet.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=513&slide=25&title=fedora+core+5+test+1+screenshots) are available from OSDir.com. Here are the latest Fedora Core 5 test1 Release Notes (http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/) in 5 different languages.
Fedora Core 3 Status Update
Bill Nottingham (mailto:notting@redhat.com) points out in his message (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-November/msg00075.html), "As is customary, the Fedora Steering Committe plans to transfer Fedora Core 3 to the Fedora Legacy project at the release of Fedora Core 5 test 2. This is currently scheduled for December 23, 2005, as noted on: http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/schedule/ For more information on the Fedora Legacy Project, or if you wish to join the team please see http://fedoralegacy.org/."
Announcing Fedora Directory Server 1.0
Richard Megginson (mailto:rmeggins@redhat.com) points out in his message (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-December/msg00000.html), "We are proud to announce the release of Fedora Directory Server 1.0. This release marks a significant milestone for the open source community, who now have access to the code for the console and administration engine as well as the previously open sourced LDAP engine." To join Fedora Directory Community, visit http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Ways_to_contribute
Unofficial FAQ Update: 2005-11-29
Max Kanat-Alexander (mailto:max_list@fedorafaq.org) points out his message (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-November/msg00076.html), "Today, we have lots of new, good stuff: New Translations: Czech, Spanish, Romanian, Vietnamese, Turkish, and Chinese!; New Question: "Is there a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for yum?"; Updated the Java instructions, a lot!; An updated Yum configuration!; A new version of the PDF question.; An update to the question about menu editing. And a lot of other small fixes in the whole FAQ." To contribute, visit http://www.fedorafaq.org/contribute/
Fedora Logo Update
Greg DeKoenigsberg (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GregDeKoenigsberg) points out in his message (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2005-November/msg00195.html), "The Fedora logo is now in the hands of counsel. It cannot be said to be truly official until it clears this process successfully...I will request that if you're using the logo currently, and if you can reasonably replace it until we've got full logo clearance, please do so."
Newsworthy changes in Rawhide
Matthias Clasen (mailto:mclasen@redhat.com) reports in his email, "Might be worth a little Fedora news note that we are using the GNOME about me capplet now, which has been enhanced to replace gdmphotosetup (Login photo), userinfo (About myself) and userpasswd (Password). This information is probably of interest to people who are changing their password via the menus and are missing the Password menu item now. More menu cleanups will land after test1."
Expanding Linux Partitions with LVM
Anze Vidmar wrote a new article on Expanding Linux Partitions with LVM. "The Logical Volume Manager (LVM) enables you to resize your partitions without having to modify the partition tables on your hard disk. LVM becomes useful when you are running out of disk space and instead of reinstalling your system on a larger driver, you can simpy expand your existing partiton scheme."
Firefox 1.5 Released
It's official! Firefox 1.5 has been released. According to its release notes (http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/1.5.html), there are several new features including Automated update, Faster browser navigation and improvements to popup blocking and product usability. Tarball is available to download from their ftp site (ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.5/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 28 - December 4, Fedora Project released 13 Fedora Core 4 Updates including 2 Security Advisories.
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