Fedora Weekly News Issue 37
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Written by Thomas Chung on 2006-03-13
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Welcome to our issue number 37 of Fedora Weekly News (FWN), the weekly newsletter for the Fedora community. The latest issue can always be found here.
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Fedora Core 5 Status
Jeremy Katz (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JeremyKatz) announces in fedora-announce-list (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-March/msg00015.html):
Due to circumstances outside of our control, we're going to be unable to keep to the scheduled date of March 15th for the release of FC5 and instead are going to have to make the release date Monday, March 20th. While unfortunate in some ways, this gives us the opportunity to pull in the final GNOME 2.14 tarballs which should be available on Monday assuming the changes are suitably minor.
Fedora Project already updated PRELIMINARY Fedora Core 5 Schedule (http://fedora.redhat.com/About/schedule/) accordingly.
Release Notes: released!
Paul W Frields (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PaulWFrields) points out in his blog (http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=630):
In looking over the notes, we’re aware that certainly there are some organizational challenges that go along with spreading the responsibility for the relnotes across the community. .. More than ever before, I think we can safely ask the question, “Did you check the release notes?” To all the community members who helped gather and shape them, well done.
compiz on aiglx
Christopher Blizzard (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ChristopherBlizzard) points out in his blog (http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=181):
Over the weekend, Kristian (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KristianHoegsberg) managed to get compiz running on aiglx (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RenderingProject/aiglx). It didn’t require that many changes, which is a good sign. He’s got it running on his i830-based laptop and it’s reasonably performant. His post (http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2006-March/013577.html) contains a lot more information.
Accoring to Kristian Hoegsberg (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KristianHoegsberg):
With a bit of hacking, I managed to get compiz (and glxcompmgr) running on aiglx. I'm running it on my i830 laptop, and the performance is actually quite impressive. Most of the aiglx fixes were just bug fixes or missing minor features and have been committed to the accel_indirect_branch. A couple of fixes are less committable and I've put them here: http://freedesktop.org/~krh/compiz-on-aiglx
Fedora Legacy Repo included in FC5
Jesse Keating (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JesseKeating) points out in Fedora Project Wiki RecentChanges (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/Legacy?action=diff&rev2=24&rev1=23):
Now included in Fedora Core 5! Fedora Core 5 will ship with repository configuration for Fedora Legacy. This is a huge step in integrating Fedora Legacy more with the Fedora Project at large and Fedora Core specifically.
Fedora Core 5 Test 3 Review
According to LinuxCult.com (http://linuxcult.com/story/03052006/fedora_core_5_test_3_review):
If you didn't like Fedora Core before, this won't change your mind; the methodolgy is still the same. If you liked FC4, I strongly recommend givine FC5T3 a go. In my opinion, it runs neck-and-neck with Ubuntu as being the most easily accessible expert distro available. It'll certainly be interesting to see which one comes out on top when they're both released.
Linux Audio Comparison on FC5T3
According to Phoronix.com (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=416&num=1):
The contenders include Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Z3, Sound Blaster Audigy 2, Chaintech AV-710, Aureal Vortex (AU8820), and AC'97 integrated audio. .. During testing, Fedora Core 5 Test 3 was used with all official updates up to March 05, 2006. Fedora Core 5 Test 3 uses Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v1.0.11 RC 2.
2005 LQ.org Members Choice Award Winners
According to LinuxQuestions.org (http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=422222):
The polls have been closed and the results have been audited, which means the results are in. We once again had a record number of votes cast - thanks to everyone who participated. .. Without further ado, I bring you the winners of the 2005 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards.
Full results are available at http://www.linuxquestions.org/awards
OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 Released
According to OpenOffice.org's ooo-announce (http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=announce&msgNo=274) list:
OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 is available today. It is ready now in English; check with the Native Language projects for other languages. The release is recommended for everyone. It contains some nifty new features, fixes many small bugs and resolves numerous issues.
Fedora Project already released its RPM packages in development (http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/) tree.
Red Hat's New-Look Enterprise Linux
According to internetnews.com (http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3590111):
If you're a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 user, update your installations now. Doing so will get you a slew of security, feature and driver updates, as well as a few technology previews of what's coming next. .. A new execution analysis technology called Frysk is also previewed in the update. "Frysk is an execution-analysis technology implemented using native Java and C++," Red Hat's Product Enhancement Advisory states. "It is aimed at providing developers and sysadmins with the ability to both examine and analyze running multi-host, multi-process, multi-threaded systems."
Fedora Core 4 Updates
During the week of March 06 - March 12, Fedora Project released 11 Fedora Core 4 Updates (http://fedoranews.org/cms/FC4) including no Security Advisory.
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