Fedora Weekly News Issue 33
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Written by Thomas Chung on 2006-02-13
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Welcome to our issue number 33 of Fedora Weekly News (FWN), the weekly newsletter for the Fedora community. The latest issue can always be found here.
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SCALE: Fedora Booth at Southern California Linux Expo
The 4th Annual Southern California Linux Expo (http://socallinuxexpo.org) also known as SCALE 4X was a successful event for Linux Community. According to SCALE-announce mailing list (http://mail.socallinuxexpo.com/pipermail/scale-announce/2006-February/000019.html), Over 700 people came in the first day alone, and as a result the Expo floor was busy and all four speaker tracks were well attended. Thomas Chung, Eric Hattemer and Warren Togami (http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Image:Thomas_eric_warren.jpg&rcid=9435) were present at the Fedora Booth for two days (Feb 11-12) to answer any question on Fedora Project as well as distributing Fedora Project Overview Handouts, Fedora Core 4 DVDs and Fedora Project T-Shirts.
SCALE: Fedora Presentation at Southern California Linux Expo
Warren Togami also gave a talk (http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Image:Warren_introduced_by_scale.jpg&rcid=9437) on what Fedora is about, why it is important to the future of Open Source Software, and how you can get involved. The presentation slides are available in Fedora Presentations (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Presentations) page.
Here is a behind-the-story. It was only a few days before the event opening day, when I noticed one of speakers canceled the talk so I contacted SCALE to find out if we can use the spot for Fedora Project. Within minutes, SCALE responded and Warren accepted the invitation. Since it was added in the last minute, his talk information was not included in the printed schedule but the online schedule (http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/hours.php) was updated in time and his talk was announced well before his presentation. Also it was mentioned numerous time in the Fedora Booth by the Fedora Representatives.
FUDCon Boston 2006 Call for Papers
Jack Aboutboul (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JackAboutboul) announces (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-February/msg00042.html) in the list,
Riding on the success of the series of FUDCon events worldwide I am proud to announce that we will be holding FUDCon Boston 2006, taking it back to where it all began. The event will be graciously hosted by Boston University once again with sponsorship from BU Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the BU Office of Information Technology, and this year, the BU School of Management. The date for the event is Friday April 7th, the day following the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo.
More information can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConBoston2006
FedoraFAQ.org announces The Insider FAQ
Max Kanat-Alexander (mailto:max@fedorafaq.org) announces in his email,
FedoraFAQ.org is proud to announce our new subscription service, The Insider FAQ! We provide answers to all sorts of Fedora and Red Hat questions that are not normal fedorafaq.org questions, but with the same detail and simplicity as fedorafaq.org. :-) Try it out, it's really useful, really cheap, and it helps support fedorafaq.org! :-) The Insider FAQ is at: http://www.insiderfaq.com/
Fedora Projects Weekly Report 2006-02-13
Every week, Community Contributors (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects/WeeklyReports/2006-Feb-13#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 2006-02-13 (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects/WeeklyReports/2006-Feb-13).
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.
IBM Offers Migration Guide for Linux for Free
LXer.com reports in the article (http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/53241/index.html),
Solaris to Linux Migration: A Guide for System Administrators helps system administrators who want to move their in-house code to faster, better, less costly Linux servers. I have met government agencies and enterprise customers who have wanted to discuss this topic on more than a few occasions. I typically sit in on discussions where Linux runs everything except something from Sun that hasn't made it through migration
You can visit IBM's web (http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247186.html) page to download a 446 page system administrative guide for Free.
VMware introduces VMware Server for Free
The VMware team reports in the email,
As part of our strategy to make server virtualization universally accessible, VMware® today introduced VMware Server (http://www.vmware.com/products/server/) - a free virtualization product for Windows and Linux servers. With VMware Server, users can partition a physical server into multiple virtual machines in order to run multiple applications with different operating systems on the same server, evaluate new software, re-host legacy applications or leverage a wide variety of plug-and-play virtual appliances (http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/vm/).
You can find several Community Virtual Machines including Fedora Core 4 from http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/vm/community.html
Fedora Core 4 Updates
During the week of February 6 - February 12, Fedora Project released 12 Fedora Core 4 Updates including 6 Security Advisories.
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