Fedora Weekly News Issue 66
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Written by Thomas Chung on 2006-11-13
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Welcome to our issue number 66 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 Summit Preparations
Max Spevack (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MaxSpevack) points out in his blog (http://spevack.livejournal.com/2854.html):
Next week will be a busy few days for Fedora, and we want to do everything we can to make sure the folks in our community are in the loop as to what is happening, what we are talking about, and how you can stay up to date with the results and status of our planning.
We'll be posting to fedora-devel-list, fedora-advisory-board, and also to these blogs and the wiki. The end goal? A roadmap for the next 6-12 months of Fedora, that can be reviewed and expanded in the open by the Fedora community.
Fedora Ambassadors Day
Gerold Kassube (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GeroldKassube) announces in fedora-ambassadors-list (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-ambassadors-list/2006-November/msg00062.html):
The Fedora Ambassador Day (FAD) is where Ambassadors and other interested members of the Fedora Community come together to plan for future Fedora events and get to know each other. This is your chance to meet other Fedora community members (Ambassadors, Developers) in person.
Fedora Directory Server 1.0.4 is released
Rich Megginson (mailto:rmeggins@redhat.com) points out in his blog (http://richmegginson.livejournal.com/4768.html):
Fedora DS 1.0.4 is hot off the presses (http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Release_Notes). This version was released to fix a serious problem when running setup after an upgrade installation. We also snuck in a couple of other bug fixes. This will hopefully be the last of the 1.0.x releases. The 1.1 release will be the one that uses FHS, autotools, discrete packaging, etc. etc.
Announcing pungi-0.1.0
Jesse Keating (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JesseKeating) announces in his blog (http://jkeating.livejournal.com/33140.html):
I am pleased (and scared) to announce the 0.1.0 release of pungi. This is the first release and thus it is a bit rough around the edges, but I firmly believe in release early release often.
With this release pungi has the ability to gather packages and their deps from a given repo or set of repos, run anaconda tools to make installable trees, and create CD and DVD isos (DVD only if you ask for more than one CD).
Why every child deserves a laptop
According to recent article posted on ZDNet (http://opinion.zdnet.co.uk/comment/0,1000002138,39284554,00.htm):
To encourage curiosity and open learning, the system itself must be open so children can see technology work from the inside. The laptop's software will be open source. It will run an operating system that is Linux-based, a smaller version of the Fedora operating system. It will also feature an entirely new interface and desktop suite for children.
OLPC taps 2.6.19 kernel
According to recent article posted on DesktopLinux (http://desktoplinux.com/news/NS7522088140.html):
For B1 we plan to use a Linux 2.6.19 OLPC kernel with a Red Hat Fedora Core 6 runtime environment; this is lower risk than combining our own work with Fedora changes that might affect us that would not be of benefit
Review: Fedora Core 6
According to recent review posted on Dharwadkar (http://www.dharwadkar.com/technology/linux/fc6_install/):
Fedora Core 6 (FC6) is one of the most comprehensive Linux offering I have seen to date. I have worked with Linux distributions starting from Redhat Linux 6.2 and forward. FC6 appears to be running most of the applications that users would need.
Review: Fedora Core 6
According to recent review posted on Brad-X (http://www.brad-x.com/?p=49):
Fedora Core 6 follows up version 5 with the latest version of GNOME, the latest core Linux components (kernel 2.6.18, glibc 2.5) and dramatic functional improvements in some of its most important components...Fedora Core 6 is the second slam-dunk for Red Hat on the desktop front in all these categories.
Fedora Weekly Reports 2006-11-06
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 November 06 - November 12, Fedora Project released 15 Fedora Core 5 Updates (http://fedoranews.org/cms/FC5) including 6 Security Advisories.
During the week of November 06 - November 12, Fedora Project released 51 Fedora Core 6 Updates (http://fedoranews.org/cms/FC6) including 8 Security Advisories.
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