Fedora Weekly News Issue 54
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Written by Thomas Chung on 2006-07-10
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Welcome to our issue number 54 of Fedora Weekly News (FWN), the weekly newsletter for the Fedora community. The latest issue can always be found here.
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Open Video Contest Deadline Extension
Mike Linksvayer (http://creativecommons.org/about/people#21), CTO of Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org) announces in his weblog (http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/5965):
Due to requests for additional time we're proactively extending the deadline for the Fedora/CC Open Video Contest by one month -- you now have until August 20 to submit a 30 second video on the subject of openness.
FC6 test2 freeze slipping by a week
Jeremy Katz (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JeremyKatz) announces in fedora-maintainers-list (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2006-July/msg00138.html):
Due to a desire to integrate the DT_GNU_HASH changes for binutils and glibc (which provide an ~ 50% speedup for dynamic linking) and the necessity of doing a rebuild for these changes, we are going to slip the freeze for FC6 test2 by one week. The new freeze date will be Wednesday, 19 July 2006. This should also allow a few other things that are straggling time to be tested a little bit more in time for the feature freeze at test2.
New FWN Column: Ask Fedora Project
Paul W. Frields (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PaulWFrields) announces in fedora-marketing-list (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2006-July/msg00021.html):
Fedora Weekly News, in association with the Fedora Documentation Project, is soon to start a new regular column devoted to giving answers to common user problems. The result would be similar to "Ask Shadowman" in Red Hat Magazine -- somewhat like a weekly FAQ, with the significant difference being that it's completely Fedora-centric, and we have the ability to be a bit more current through dipping into the input stream in real time.
- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/WeeklyQuestions
- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/WeeklyQuestions/SolversList
DejaVu fonts Testing for Fedora
Damien Durand (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DamienDurand) points out in his blog (http://glive.tuxfamily.org/dotclear/index.php?2006/07/05/20-dejavu-fonts):
Today, I've tested DejaVU fonts and it's great. What're the characteristics of DejaVU fonts? In a few words it's derived of popular Bitstream Vera font. They are the main Desktop fonts on all FLOSS Desktops, used by a lot of Distributions, Debian, Suse, Ubuntu ... and soon Fedora.
Fedora Core 6, Test 1 Review
Rahul Sundaram (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RahulSundaram) points out in fedora-marketing-list (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2006-July/msg00013.html):
More of a short look rather than a comprehensive review. I am inclined to believe than Fedora Core 6 is bound to be a release that is less focused on feature changes. More on that later.
CNET: Microsoft bends on OpenDocument
According to recent article published in CNET News.com (http://news.com.com/Microsoft+bends+on+OpenDocument/2100-7344_3-6090912.html):
Although Microsoft Office document formats are the most widely used, OpenDocument has emerged as an alternative with significant vendor backing and with high-profile government customers in Massachusetts and Belgium. OpenDocument is an XML-based format developed under the standards group OASIS, or the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards.
- http://news.com.com/Mass.+holding+tight+to+OpenDocument/2100-7344_3-6090196.html
- http://news.com.com/Belgian+government+chooses+OpenDocument/2100-7344_3-6087275.html
Fedora Weekly Reports 2006-07-03
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.
Fedora Core 4 and 5 Updates
During the week of July 03 - July 09, Fedora Project released 01 Fedora Core 4 Updates (http://fedoranews.org/cms/FC4) including 01 Security Advisory.
During the week of July 03 - July 09, Fedora Project released 21 Fedora Core 5 Updates (http://fedoranews.org/cms/FC5) including 02 Security Advisory.
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