Fedora Weekly News Issue 7
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Issue Date: 2005-08-01
Welcome to our issue number 7 of Fedora Weekly News (FWN), the weekly newsletter for the Fedora community.
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Fedora Bug Day Event
Fedora Project had its Bug Day Event (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-July/msg00117.html) on Friday, 2005-07-29. To participate future event, you need to join Fedora BugZappers Triage Team (http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers). There are even some awards given out to certain participants at the conclusion of Bug Days.
Fedora Extras Build System
Seth Vidal (mailto:skvidal@phy.duke.edu) reports in his blog (http://blog.sethdot.org/index.cgi/249) that we now have the buildsystem up and running with 3 x86/x86_64 build machines and 1 ppc build machine for Fedora Extras Project. We can even check current status of Builders (http://buildsys.fedoraproject.org/build-status/builders.psp) (Machines) and which packages have been built successfully (http://buildsys.fedoraproject.org/build-status/success.psp) and failed (http://buildsys.fedoraproject.org/build-status/failed.psp) to build.
The Unofficial FAQ updated for Fedora Core 4
Max Kanat-Alexander (mailto:max_list@fedorafaq.org) announced (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-July/msg00116.html) that his website The Unofficial Fedora FAQ (http://fedorafaq.org) has been updated for Fedora Core 4. If you have any ideas, or you have any comments about the FAQ, please contact him to contribute (http://www.fedorafaq.org/contribute/).
The Unofficial Guide for Fedora Core 4
Seb Payne reports his website The Unofficial Guide for Fedora Core (http://www.evolutioncolt.com/fedoraguide) provides a guide to installing most of the common components needed to new users and older users alike for Fedora Core 4. He also maintains his own custom Fedora Guide yum repository file (http://www.evolutioncolt.com/fedoraguide/files/fedoraguide.repo).
Acrobat Reader 7 RPM on Fedora Core 4?
A user asked a question in Fedora User Mailing List (http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list) - "How does one go about installing Acrobat Reader 7 on Fedora Core 4? I got the rpm file from the Adobe site, but trying to install it produces some failed dependencies (libstdc++ 5 something or other)." Here is an excellent answer (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-July/msg05815.html) by Paul Howarth.
Boot Fedora Linux Faster
Krishnan Subramanian found an interesting article (http://www.improvedsource.com/content/view/13/2/) on How I Modified Fedora To Boot In Under 25 Seconds. There is another article (http://www.improvedsource.com/content/view/14/2/) on Linux Fastest Boot Time Challenge.
QEMU Version 0.7.1 Released
Fabrice Bellard (mailto:fabrice@bellard.org) released (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2005-07/msg00352.html) QEMU (http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/) (Open Source Processor Emulator) version 0.7.1 with updated KQEMU (QEMU Accelerator). Due to GCC changes in Fedora Core 4, a few patches including the fix for Unknown symbol __PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2005-07/msg00394.html) were needed to build RPM (http://fedoranews.org/tchung/qemu/0.7.1/) for Fedora Core 4. Here is a screenshot (http://fedoranews.org/tchung/qemu/0.7.1/screenshot/) of QEMU 0.7.1 running WinXP top of Fedora Core 4.
Thomas Guide: Wallpaper
Thomas Chung has written an article on setting up a Wallpaper after reading a breakthrough announcement (http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2005-126) by NASA. Let's welcome new planet to our solar system!
Tip of the Week
This week's Tip of the Week is "Check Update Script with Desktop Launcher" submitted by Thomas Chung. In order to follow this tip, your user account need a sudo privilege.
Fedora Core 4 Updates
During the week of July 25 - July 31, Fedora Project released 40 Fedora Core 4 Updates including 2 Security Advisories.
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