Fedora Weekly News Issue 48
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Written by Thomas Chung on 2006-05-29
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Welcome to our issue number 48 of Fedora Weekly News (FWN), the weekly newsletter for the Fedora community. The latest issue can always be found here.
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New logo guidelines Available Now
Alex Maier (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AlexMaier) announces in fedora-ambassadors-list (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-ambassadors-list/2006-May/msg00122.html):
The new logo guidelines are out! http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Logo
Please be sure not to violate any of the guidelines.
Fedora Logo Usage Guildlines in HTML is available at: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Logo/UsageGuidelines
Application for Google's Summer of Code Ended
Patrick Barnes (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PatrickBarnes) announces:
The application and approval phases of the Summer of Code 2006 have ended. No new projects will be accepted for this program. Google will consider future Summer of Code programs after the results of this year's program are in.
The Fedora Project ended up with only five projects. From the awesome proposals received, the following ideas were selected:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SummerOfCode
Invitation to Fedora Documentation Translation
Bob Jensen (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BobJensen) announces in fedora-ambassadors-list (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-ambassadors-list/2006-May/msg00123.html):
With FC6 coming[1] we have our docs schedule[2] posted. For FC5 we had only a small handful of translations. I would like to see if we can expand this for the FC6 release now that I have my feet a little more under me. This got me thinking about where I could seek help in this "dream."
If you think you might be interested in helping out with a translation, feel free to drop by #Fedora-Docs on Freenode[3] or join the mailing list[4].
- [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Core/Schedule
- [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/Schedule
- [3] http://freenode.net/
- [4] http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list
Puplet (Yum Applet) anyone?
Jeremy Katz (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JeremyKatz) points out in his blog (http://katzj.livejournal.com/388499.html):
The other thing I've been spending a fair bit of actual coding time on is puplet, the new and improved applet to let you know about updates. Seth did some work on a backend daemon which has made it pretty easy to sit an applet to get information. I'm hoping to spend some time on that this afternoon and actually get to where some of the cooler things (such as automatic updates or even just automatic downloading of updates and only notifying you when everything is ready to go) are in place. Then, we'll just want a better set of images than the ones which were used for the old rhn-applet :)
If you're interested in Pupplet (Yum Applet), see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumApplet
OLPC laptop prototype
Christopher Blizzard (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ChristopherBlizzard) points out in his blog (http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=199):
The laptop pictured above is a test machine. The case was created by a machine, but only as a one-off. It is running one of the test OLPC boards (http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=198), which means it’s pretty close to the end laptop. It’s booting off an internal flash drive and is running a well-stripped FC5.
More photos available at: flickr.com (http://www.flickr.com/photos/pete/sets/72057594143224765)
Here is a related story: OLPC reaches milestone as OS, hardware comes together (http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1007)
Fedora Core 5 Review with Screenshots
Jon Henshaw (http://fedoranews.org/cms/user/1304) submits a story via email:
I love the latest version of Fedora Core 5 and wrote a review on my company's blog. I thought you might be interested.
http://www.sitening.com/blog/2006/05/25/fedora-core-5-review-with-screenshots/
In conclusion, Fedora Core 5 is a superb operating system with an excellent base of applications. It’s the operating system that I’ve been waiting for in regards to free and usable. I still don’t think I’d let my mom install it, but I’m pretty sure she wouldn’t have any problems using it on a daily basis as a home or work computer.
My desktop OS: Fedora Core 5
Michael Hampton (http://www.ioerror.us/) submits a review in NewsForge (http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/05/15/2059205.shtml?tid=2):
I like playing with the newest software games, toys, and applications. At the same time, I have work to do, and I need a solid, stable platform that I don't have to babysit. As a full-time blogger and part-time Web programmer, I need a wide variety of tools at my disposal, and I frequently need the latest versions of available software. Balancing stability against the bleeding edge is a difficult trick, and that's why Fedora Core 5 is my desktop OS.
Google releases Picasa for Linux
According to NewsForge (http://trends.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/05/25/2343255):
Picasa (http://picasa.google.com/index.html) is a photo organizing and editing tool from Google that does most of what most people need to do with their digital pictures. Now Picasa, previously a Windows-only program, has binaries available for most popular GNU/Linux distributions. The Linux version of Picasa is still a beta release, but it's ready to handle photo storage, organizing, and light photo editing on your Linux computer.
- Linux version (including RPM) is available at: http://picasa.google.com/linux/
- SELinux workaround for Picasa (http://james-morris.livejournal.com/11429.html) by James Morris (mailto:jmorris@redhat.com)
- First impressions of Picasa (http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2006/05/first-impressions-of-picasa-googles.html) by Ravi
Fedora Weekly Reports 2006-05-22
We have a new effort in place to report The Board news as well as Meeting Minutes from each sub-project for Fedora community to gather information on the happenings in the Fedora universe in a easily digestible and referenceable format.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects/WeeklyReports/2006-05-22
As always, the latest issue of Fedora Weekly Reports can be found at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects/WeeklyReports
Fedora Core 4 and 5 Updates
During the week of May 22 - May 28, Fedora Project released 04 Fedora Core 4 Updates (http://fedoranews.org/cms/FC4) including 04 Security Advisories.
During the week of May 22 - May 28, Fedora Project released 24 Fedora Core 5 Updates (http://fedoranews.org/cms/FC5) including 03 Security Advisories.
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