Fedora Weekly News Issue 49
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Written by Thomas Chung on 2006-06-05
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Welcome to our issue number 49 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 Re-Spin 20060523 Released
Robert 'Bob' Jensen (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BobJensen) announces in fedora-announce-list (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-June/msg00000.html):
The Fedora Unity Project (http://fedoraunity.org/) is proud to announce the release of DVD ISO Re-Spins of Fedora Core 5. These ISOs are based upon Fedora Core 5 and all updates released as of May 23rd, 2006. They are available for i386 and x86_64 architectures as of Wednesday, May 31st, 2006 via BitTorrent. The x86_64 Re-Spin is currently available for testing only.
http://torrent.fedoraunity.org/torrents
Fedora Interview Program was born
Damien Durand (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DamienDurand) announces in fedora-marketing-list (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2006-June/msg00002.html):
Fedora Interview program has (a) goal to present quickly the contributors behind Fedora Project. These contributors that you come across on the mailing lists, on irc channels or even on http://www.fedoraproject.org/people explain to you in few words what their role are inside the Fedora Project.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/Interview
Fedora People at Red Hat Summit 2006
- Jeremy Katz (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JeremyKatz) points out in his blog (http://katzj.livejournal.com/390266.html):
Keep an eye on the Summit video page (http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/videos/) for them to start showing up there -- right now, there's just Matthew's keynote, but I expect the others to be going up as they're converted.
- Jesse Keating (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JesseKeating) points out in his blog (http://jkeating.livejournal.com/24438.html):
Mugshot (http://developer.mugshot.org/wiki/Mugshot_Project)'s linkswarm gives you the ability to share a link with a predefined group of people, or the entire mugshot world, with a comment about what is cool about the site. You (and others) can see who is browsing to the site, and you can even start an impromptu chat session about the site, and anybody that comes alone will see the history of the chat and can chime in.
- Tom 'spot' Callaway (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/TomCallaway) points out in his blog (http://spot.livejournal.com/256140.html):
Here are links to the working PDF (http://people.redhat.com/tcallawa/Callaway-RPMBestPractices-Summit2006.pdf) and OpenOffice 1.0 (http://people.redhat.com/tcallawa/Callaway-RPMBestPractices-Summit2006.sxi) files of my slides. The example handouts are also here in PDF (http://people.redhat.com/tcallawa/Callaway-RPM-spec-examples.pdf) (link fixed), OpenOffice 1.0 (http://people.redhat.com/tcallawa/Callaway-RPM-spec-examples.sxw), and Plain Text (http://people.redhat.com/tcallawa/Callaway-RPM-spec-examples.txt).
- Paul W Frields (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PaulWFrields) points out in his blog (http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=672):
a tornado of information about the state and future of a lot of Red Hat initiatives, including Fedora. Max has already blogged about the afternoon’s Fedora BoF, after which Chris Blizzard gave a great presentation about OLPC.
- Max Spevack (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MaxSpevack) points out in his blog (http://spevack.livejournal.com/921.html):
Jeremy and I just finished the Fedora BoF (that's Birds of a Feather -- basically an open conversation and Q&A session). I was pleased with how it went. We touched on many of the usual topics, but with more discussion than we saw at the LinuxWorld presentation.
We discussed the philosophy of the Board -- the community transparency, leadership, and decision making that we are trying to promote from the top down.
- Many photos from Red Hat Summit 2006 can be found from Jonathan Opp's blog (http://blogs.redhat.com/jopp/).
News Coverage on Red Hat Summit 2006
- 2006-06-02: NewsForge - Red Hat Summit sessions educate, stimulate (http://business.newsforge.com/business/06/06/02/1451203.shtml?tid=18)
- 2006-06-01: NewsForge - Day 2 keynotes at the Red Hat Summit (http://business.newsforge.com/business/06/06/01/1812203.shtml?tid=18)
- 2006-06-01: NewsFactor - Red Hat Creates Social-Networking Site (http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=002000001VE4)
- 2006-05-31: NewsForge - Second Red Hat Summit gets underway (http://business.newsforge.com/business/06/05/31/1819204.shtml?tid=18)
Adding new RPM packages to a fedora DVD
Rob Garth (http://fedoranews.org/cms/user/1148) reports in his story submission (http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/997):
Adding packages to a custom fedora install is fairly easy, and well documented, with kickstart. But, kickstart is fairly inflexible. What if you wanted to add packages onto the install media and have them in the standard package selection dialog on install. I have documented the basic steps of this process on my blog (http://www.users.on.net/~rgarth/weblog/fedora/adding_pkgs.html)
http://www.users.on.net/~rgarth/weblog/fedora/adding_pkgs.html
45 Minutes to a Moodle Education Server
Mark Rais, a senior editor of reallylinux.com has posted an article (http://reallylinux.com/docs/installmoodle.shtml) on Moodle (http://www.moodle.org/):
This beginner article by Mark Rais provides step-by-step instructions for installing Moodle, a Learning Management System, on to a Fedora Linux server. It provides everything necessary to setup a full powered intranet web-server that can support course listings, event calendars, student/teacher communication and much more. Best of all, a prototype server can be functional within about 45 minutes.
http://reallylinux.com/docs/installmoodle.shtml
Red Hat Turns Over Testing Tools To Fedora
InformationWeek reports (http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=188700551&subSection=Open+Source):
"Dogtail" and "Autobuild" are just two automated certification and testing tools Red Hat will hand over to customers and partners as a way of standardizing the testing process and building consistent, high quality Linux infrastructures, the CEO said.
Initially it will be offered to customers as part of Fedora but could become a commercial value-added service in the future, Szulik said.
New Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey Released
MozillaZine (http://www.mozillazine.org/) reports:
- Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4 Released (http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/releases/1.5.0.4.html) to fix security fixes (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#firefox1.5.0.4)
- Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 Released (http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/releases/1.5.0.4.html) to fix security fixes (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#thunderbird1.5.0.4)
- SeaMonkey 1.0.2 Released (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/releases/seamonkey1.0.2/) to fix security fixes (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#seamonkey1.0.2)
Updated RPM packages from Fedora Project are expected to be available soon.
Fedora Weekly Reports 2006-05-29
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/2006-05-29
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 29 - June 04, Fedora Project released 03 Fedora Core 4 Updates (http://fedoranews.org/cms/FC4) including 01 Security Advisory.
During the week of May 29 - June 04, Fedora Project released 11 Fedora Core 5 Updates (http://fedoranews.org/cms/FC5) including 01 Security Advisory.
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