Fedora Weekly News Issue 32
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Written by Thomas Chung on 2006-02-06
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Welcome to our issue number 32 of Fedora Weekly News (FWN), the weekly newsletter for the Fedora community. The latest issue can always be found here.
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Red Hat commits to MIT's $100 laptop
ComputerWorld (http://computerworld.com/) reports in recent article (http://computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,108217,00.html):
Fedora Core, a popular flavor of Linux being developed by the open-source community, is hardly hefty by today’s operating system standards. But to fit the tight specs for the $100 laptop being designed by MIT’s One-Lap-Per-Child (OLPC) group, Fedora will need to go on a crash diet, concedes its overseer, Red Hat Inc.
In a related press release (http://www.redhat.com/en_us/USA/home/company/news/prarchive/2006/press_oneperchild.html) from Red Hat:
"At Red Hat, we believe that open source technology can change the world, and is still in its infancy. It's a guiding principle that is embodied in everything we do," said Matthew Szulik, chairman, president and CEO of Red Hat.
Interview with Orv Beach at SCALE
FreeSoftwareMagazine (http://freesoftwaremagazine.com) interviewed (http://freesoftwaremagazine.com/newsletters/scale_interview/) Orv Beach who is the Chair of Public Relations Committee for Southern California Linux Expo (http://socallinuxexpo.org/). In the interview:
What exhibitor and/or speaker are the event’s chairs most excited to see attend SCALE? Well, both Aaron Seigo (http://socallinuxexpo.org/speakers/speakers_seigo.php) (KDE) and Dan Kegel (http://socallinuxexpo.org/speakers/speakers_kegel.php) (Google) will have very pertinent things to talk about when it comes to GNU/Linux on the desktop; they’re must-see speakers. And the distributors of four major GNU/Linux distributions will be there: Fedora (http://socallinuxexpo.org/exhibitions/fedora.php), Debian (http://socallinuxexpo.org/exhibitions/debian.php), Ubuntu (http://socallinuxexpo.org/exhibitions/ubuntu.php), and Novell (http://socallinuxexpo.org/exhibitions/novell.php) (NLD). So you can shop and compare!
In a related article, Brian Proffitt who is Managing Editor for LinuxToday (http://www.linuxtoday.com/) wrote in his Editor's Note (http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2006020302126OPCYEV):
"SCALE emerged out of a much smaller event that was hosted by the Simi Conejo LUG many years ago that we referred to as a LUG Fest," according to Gareth Greenaway, Community Relations and Facilities Chair. "We managed to hold the event for four years and then during the planning of the fifth someone told us that some people at the USCLUG were looking to hold a conference." At that point, Greenaway indicated, the two LUGs decided to merge their resources and implement SCALE. Conference attendance started around 400 attendees and has grown to over a thousand, which is a sure mark of the event's success.
A Report from Solutions Linux 2006
Thanks to Aurelien Bompard (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AurelienBompard), we have a report from Solutions Linux 2006 (http://www.solutionslinux.fr/) (French) which is an event in France took from Jan 31 to Feb 2, 2006 for professionals around Linux:
* About Fedora : - Most people have already heard of Fedora - Usually people know that Fedora is the successor of Red Hat Linux - They don't usually know that there Red Hat is still working on it - They don't usually know that there is also a community behind it now - They don't usually know about other sub-projects, not even Fedora Extras.
Fedora Core 5 Test 3 Slip
Jeremy Katz (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JeremyKatz) reports in the fedora-devel-list (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-February/msg00187.html):
Although I hate to do it, it looks like we're going to have to slip Fedora Core 5 test3 by a week. There is an ABI change in the gcc/glibc stack that requires a rebuild of the entire distribution. Given that, there is no way that we'll be able to make a freeze date of Monday. So, test3 will now freeze on Monday, 13 February with a release date of Monday, 20 February. We'll adjust the final schedule sometime next week based on the progress of the rebuilding efforts.
LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards
2005 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards (http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/forumdisplay.php?f=69) is now available to vote for your favorite products of 2005. This is your chance to be heard! Voting ends March 16th. Login with your account to see a list of Poll Options. We all know which one is Distribution of the Year (http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=409010). 
Create a custom Linux distribution online
All about Linux (http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/), a blog dedicated for Linux has an interesting article on Create a custom Linux distribution online (http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2006/02/create-custom-linux-distribution.html). In the article:
A website called instalinux (http://www.instalinux.com/) aims to provide just that. On their site, you first decide your choice of Linux distribution and then pick and choose the software that need to be bundled with it, all from the confines of a web interface. Once you have finished, you are presented with an ISO image of the distribution of your choice for download, containing just the software you have selected. You can choose from Fedora, Debian, Suse and Ubuntu Linux.
According to their FAQ site (http://www.instalinux.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3):
How does it work? Instalinux relies on a bunch of Perl scripts that are part of the Open Source, LinuxCOE (http://linuxcoe.sourceforge.net/) package. That in turn relies on the network install technologies of each of the Distributions (Kickstart for Fedora, AutoYAST for SuSE, etc).
Firefox 1.5.0.1 Released
According to Mozilla.org here is what's new in Firefox 1.5.0.1 (http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/releases/1.5.0.1.html):
* Improved stability. * Improved support for Mac OS X. * International Domain Name support for Iceland (.is) is now enabled. * Fixes for several memory leaks. * Several security enhancements (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#firefox1.5.0.1). The Burning Edge has more detailed lists of notable bug fixes (http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/releases/1.5.0.1.html).
Fedora Project already released Firefox 1.5.0.1 RPM package and it's available from development (http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/) tree.
Fedora Projects Weekly Report 2006-02-06
Every week, Community Contributors (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects/WeeklyReports/2006-Feb-06#contributions) from Fedora Project bring you the latest updates within the Fedora Project to you in a timely manner on major projects including Core, Extras, Docs, LiveCD, Ambassadors and Translation. Here is Fedora Projects Weekly Report 2006-02-06 (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects/WeeklyReports/2006-Feb-06).
If you like this report and would like to contribute towards it by adding more content, translate this report or cover one of the several Fedora sub projects, you can contact the Fedora Marketing (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing) team to help.
Fedora Core 4 Updates
During the week of January 30 - February 05, Fedora Project released 32 Fedora Core 4 Updates including 2 Security Advisories.
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