Fedora Weekly News Issue 29
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Issue Date: 2006-01-16
Welcome to our issue number 29 of Fedora Weekly News (FWN), the weekly newsletter for the Fedora community.
This issue is also available in the following languages: French
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Fedora Initiatives at LinuxWorld
Jack Aboutboul (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JackAboutboul) announces a great news in his email:
I am proud to announce that we have successfully agreed with IDG on terms to run an install pavilion at the upcoming LinuxWorld in Boston. Attached is the marketing material they are sending out to promote the show as well as the floor plan for the show floor. We will be in booths 636 and the adjacent booth should we need the space. Note that we are co-sponsoring the event with our good friends Pogo Linux. This is a great accomplishment and should help draw alot of attention and traffic to akk of our good work and efforts. On the same note, we have also been invited back by Boston University, the gracious host of the first ever FUDCon, to hold yet another FUDCon. I personally went by and inspected the facilities yesterday and we are indeed in for a treat. Once we are done figuring out the logistics and are ready to finally announce, I will make sure to let everyone know. Look for a call for papers soon.
LinuxWorld Conference & Expo (http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A) will take place at Boston Convention and Exposition Center on April 3-6, 2006.
Fedora Projects Weekly Report
Rahul Sundaram (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RahulSundaram) announces in his email:
Beginning this week, We have a new effort in place to project timely and crisp weekly reports for everyone in the Fedora community to gather information on the happenings in the Fedora universe in a easily digestible and referenceable format. Enjoy it at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects/WeeklyReports/ This will be part of and compliment the existing weekly news in http://fedoranews.org and published in fedora-announce list.
Chitlesh Goorah (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ChitleshGoorah) also reports in his email, his first Kadischi weekly news is available at http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/Kadischi_Report_16_Jan_2006
Kadischi Screenshots in osdir.com
Chitlesh Goorah (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ChitleshGoorah) reports in his message (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2006-January/msg00030.html), " My screenshots of Kadischi has been accepted by Chris Haney of osdir.com (http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=551&slide=1&title=kadischi+(fedora+live+cd)+001+alpha+screenshots)" Congratulations and Great Work!
Kadischi (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Kadischi) is an application for Fedora-based LiveCD (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Kadischi/LiveCD) generation. It is still in the early stage of development, but has basic functionality and can be run successfuly. As published in the last issue, Fedora Project is still looking for Developers for Fedora LiveCD Project (http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_28#Looking_for_Fedora_LiveCD_Developers). If you think you can contribute, send a message to the fedora-livecd-list (http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list).
Mono and Fedora
As reported in Christopher Blizzard (http://people.redhat.com/blizzard/)'s blog (http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/?p=159) Mono (http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page) landed in Rawhide which will eventually land in FC5. Since then, there were some confusions in regard to how to position and communicate with others in legal terms. Thanks to Greg DeKoenigsberg (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GregDeKoenigsberg)'s blog (http://www.livejournal.com/users/gregdek/3597.html), here is the official message: "Business considerations that prevented certain Mono components from being included in Fedora previously have now been resolved." Now, what's that supposed to mean? As Jeremy Katz (http://people.redhat.com/katzj/) puts in his blog (http://www.livejournal.com/users/katzj/378774.html), "We've added beagle, f-spot and tomboy. Adding these apps has also necessitated adding Mono to Fedora Core. This has gotten a lot of coverage elsewhere, but not necessarily focusing on the apps. They're each very nice and do a good job of improving the experience for the users of our desktop." Also as Christopher Blizzard (http://people.redhat.com/blizzard/) puts in his later blog (http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/?p=160), "It’s the apps that matter and they could have been written in any language. Mono just came along for the ride."
Fedora Directory Server in Media
Rahul Sundaram (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RahulSundaram) reports in his message (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2006-January/msg00018.html), "Free software magazine (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/free_issues/newsletters/event_report_december_2005/index_p2.html) has a year end report which mentions Fedora Directory Server (http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/)." In the article, "The strategy that Red Hat uses in its Open Directory product is typical. It first releases the latest and new bleeding edge software as free software to the community through the Fedora project, giving the community what they want. After it has become more mature, and the stability is guaranteed, they use it to release their enterprise stable and static version of the product—still free software—to corporations, governments and other enterprise customers giving them what they want.
Fedora Rescue CD in Media
Rahul Sundaram (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RahulSundaram) reports in his message (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2006-January/msg00022.html), "Distrowatch (http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20060109) has some information on one of the new less known improvements to the Fedora Rescue CD effort." In the article, "One of the new features of Fedora Core 5, expected to enter a second testing phase next week, is a new rescue CD. Although not much information has been published about the features and goals of this Fedora sub-project, it is likely to become an important tool for all Red Hat and Fedora system administrators and therefore we thought it deserved some publicity."
Thunderbird 1.5 Released
According to Mozilla (http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/), Thunderbird 1.5 has been released (http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/releases/1.5.html). The Rumbling Edge has more detailed lists of new features and notable bug fixes (http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/rumblingedge/archives/2006/01/1-5.html). In the blog, "Generally, with the release of 1.5, the stability of the program has been improved immensely, coupled with better search capabilities compared to the 1.0.x Aviary branch releases. Attachments can now be deleted from emails while support for podcasting, Google Maps and improved spam filtering have been added. Additionally, there is a built-in phishing detector and the program now auto-saves drafts, so in case the program or OS crashes, the draft will not be lost. Spell checking while typing is now possible, and software update improvements have been implemented similar to that of Firefox 1.5." RPM package from Fedora Project is already availalbe in the development (http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/) tree.
Fedora Core 4 Updates
During the week of January 09 - January 15, Fedora Project released 12 Fedora Core 4 Updates including 3 Security Advisories.
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