Fedora Weekly News Issue 65
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Written by Thomas Chung on 2006-11-06
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Welcome to our issue number 65 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 6 Common Issues
Rahul Sundaram (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RahulSundaram) reports in fedora-announce-list (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-October/msg00015.html):
Here is a list of a commonly reported issues that have come up in Fedora Core 6 along with workarounds.
Based on the reviews and user feedback this is our best our release of Fedora Core 6 yet. Active development for the next release of Fedora is already under rapid progress. Early testing would help us avoid problems and improve the quality of general releases.
Fedora Will Never Compromise
Warren Togami (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/WarrenTogami) points out in his Blog (http://wtogami.livejournal.com/11305.html):
As long as I work on the Fedora Project, Fedora will never compromise on the essential liberties of FOSS nor will it betray the community. But the price of liberty is not free, nor is it comfortable.
Red Hat cannot change the world alone. That is why the Fedora Project exists. We want to enable the community to work together to improve FOSS at a rapid pace, in partnership with the large and consistent contributions from our engineers. We strongly believe that this is the most effective way for the entire FOSS movement to advance.
For these reasons that I urge the FOSS community to support the Fedora Project through volunteer contributions of time and effort. Or if you lack time to contribute, please consider monetary donations toward any of the shared causes that we are fighting for.
Cooperative Bug Isolation for FC6
Dr. Ben Liblit (mailto:liblit@cs.wisc.edu) announces in fedora-announce-list (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-October/msg00013.html):
The Cooperative Bug Isolation Project (CBI) is now available for Fedora Core 6. CBI (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/) is an ongoing research effort to find and fix bugs in the real world. We distribute specially modified versions of popular open source software packages.
Fedora speaking at FactFEST
Sam Folk-Williams (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SamFolkWilliams) points out in his Blog (http://samfw.blogspot.com/2006/11/speaking-at-factfest-in-long-island-on.html):
I will be giving a talk or two at a Free/Libre conference in Long Island (Farmingdale State - about an hour from Penn Station on the LIRR). This is my first event as a Fedora Ambassador. I'll do one talk about the Gnome desktop in FC6 and another on Xen. If you are in the area, come by. Should be fun and I'll have Fedora goodies to give away.
Building and leading FOSS communities
According to recent article posted at Linux.com (http://community.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/10/05/2054209):
Similarly, for Spevack (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MaxSpevack), making Fedora a distinct organization from Red Hat "was a question of creating a vision of where we wanted to go and empowering the community." An important step in this process was the emergence of leaders within the community with no direct ties to Red Hat. "We try very hard to make sure that the hierarchy is organic," Spevack says. He is especially proud of the fact that half of the people on the six-month-old Fedora Board are "people who have already been identified as leaders in other parts of the Fedora community based on their contributions."
Review: Prime time Fedora
According to recent review posted at Linux-Watch.com (http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS5727666381.html):
What I personally really like about Fedora Core 6 are two things: its much easier and granular control over the SELinux security system; and its two new Xen virtualization management tools -- the graphical virt-manager (Virtual Machine Manager), and the command-line program, virsh.
Review: Innovations Continue
According to review review posted at eWeek.com (http://www.eweek.com/article2/0%2c1895%2c2048117%2c00.asp):
During tests, Fedora Core 6 impressed eWEEK Labs with the progress it has made toward making Security-Enhanced Linux—and the dramatically improved security protections that SELinux helps afford—more palatable. We also liked the look of Fedora Core's new graphical and command-line tools for managing Xen virtual machines, although, as with every Xen product we've yet tested, plenty of rough spots remain.
Review: Revisiting Fedora
Jonathon reports via email and his site theWeeklyRant.com (http://en.theweeklyrant.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=19):
To conclude, previously I would not have recommended Fedora to anyone outside of the RedHat centric. This time around, I could honestly say Fedora would be a consideration for any experienced Linux user. I'm still not about to suggest someone cut their teeth with it, but if Fedora keeps up in its current direction, that might not be far behind.
Fedora Weekly Reports 2006-10-30
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 5 and 6 Updates
During the week of October 30 - November 05, Fedora Project released 32 Fedora Core 5 Updates (http://fedoranews.org/cms/FC5) including 02 Security Advisories.
During the week of October 30 - November 05, Fedora Project released 57 Fedora Core 6 Updates (http://fedoranews.org/cms/FC6) including 02 Security Advisories.
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