Fedora Weekly News Issue 36
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Written by Thomas Chung on 2006-03-06
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Welcome to our issue number 36 of Fedora Weekly News (FWN), the weekly newsletter for the Fedora community. The latest issue can always be found here.
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Call for Papers: FUDCon Wiesbaden 2006
Florian Brand (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FlorianBrand) announces in fedora-ambassadors-list:
The Fedora Project is proud to announce that FUDCon Wiesbaden 2006 (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConWiesbaden2006) will be hosted by LinuxTag (http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/en/home/aktuelles.html), Europe's biggest Open Source conference and expo, once again. The date for this event is Friday, May 5th. Attendance is free for all visitors of the LinuxTag Conference And Expo.
Since fedora-ambassadors-list (https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list) is a private list, here is copy of full announcement (http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/375).
Announcing fedora-security-list
Josh Bressers (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JoshBressers) announces in fedora-security-list (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-security-list/2006-March/msg00001.html):
There has been a fair amount of talk regarding how to handle security updates in Fedora Extras. Current handling of these updates is up to the package maintainer. The fedora-security-list has been created for just such discussions, with the hope of the community to devise a solution to deal with Extras security issues.
To subscribe, please visit fedora-security-list (http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-security-list).
Running OLPC within VMWare Player
Daniel Berrange (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DanielBerrange) points out in his blog (http://berrange.com/personal/diary/2006/02/running-olpc-within-vmware-player):
Those of you running on Windows, or those for whom QEMU is too slow, might like to try out running the OLPC firmware images within VMWare Player (http://www.vmware.com/products/player/). There's two steps required to try this out, converting the disk image to VMWare format, and creating a machine configuration file.
Updated QEMU-Admin tool with network bridging
Daniel Berrange (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DanielBerrange) also points out in his blog (http://berrange.com/personal/diary/2006/03/updated-qemu-admin-tool-with-host):
I quietly pushed out an update to the QEMU admin tool (http://people.redhat.com/berrange/olpc/sdk/olpc-qemu-admin-demo.html) (being used for the OLPC SDK (http://people.redhat.com/berrange/olpc/sdk/)) which allows QEMU virtual machines to be connected up to the host network stack. ... For further info on setting up the network bridge, I've written a short set of instructions (http://people.redhat.com/berrange/olpc/sdk/network-bridge.html).
Security wars: Novell SELinux killer rattles Red Hat
According to gcn.com (http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/38330-1.html):
“In my opinion, Novell wants to split the market,” said Dan Walsh, the principal software engineer of Red Hat Inc. of Raleigh, N.C. Both Red Hat and Novell offer enterprise class Linux distributions. “Rather than working with the open-source community [on SELinux], Novell has thrown out its own competing version.” “In the open-source world, we should be working together on a single product for people to use mandatory access control,” Walsh said. Red Hat deploys SELinux for its own distribution, as do several other Linux distributions.
Accelerated X flame wars!-Maybe not
According to freesoftwaremagazine.com (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/free_issues/newsletters/accelerated_x/index_p1.html):
Conclusion Going back to the XGL vs AIGLX confrontation, the news is there really isn’t one. Both compliment each other and help each other; and not just in the extensive code sharing the developers are involved in. They share far more similarities than there are differences. XGL is easier to implement for hardware vendors who want to exercise minimal development effort in GNU/Linux solutions, and AIGLX is good for those who wish to take the desktop experience to new heights. I am looking forward to witnessing GNU/Linux being taken to new places by both projects.
XGL To Adopt AIGLX Changes
According to osnews.com (http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=13850):
The cooperation between the XGL and AIGLX projects to bring better interfaces for the Linux desktop continues as David Reveman (Novell) of XGL has agreed to adopt many changes from the AIGLX project (http://lwn.net/Articles/173833/) sent in by Kristian Hogsberg (Red Hat).
Rocky Mountain high for open source
According to news.com (http://news.com.com/Rocky+Mountain+high+for+open+source/2008-7344_3-6043007.html):
News.com: Do you use commercial or community Linux distributions? Morrison: We use a blend of the two. We run systems such as our backup applications on Fedora (Red Hat's community distribution) but decided to buy Red Hat Enterprise for our mission-critical server. Red Hat Enterprise is not an inexpensive product, but we can call the company when we want to and get immediate answers. Although, when we have problems with our less mission-critical servers, it's amazing how quickly we can find an answer by searching on the Internet.
Fedora Core 4 Updates
During the week of February 27 - March 5, Fedora Project released 6 Fedora Core 4 Updates (http://fedoranews.org/cms/FC4) including 2 Security Advisory.
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