Fedora Weekly News Issue 71
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Written by Thomas Chung on 2006-12-18
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RPM -- plans, goals, etc.
Max Spevack (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MaxSpevack) announces in fedora-announce-list (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-December/msg00003.html):
The Fedora Project is leading the creation of a new community around RPM. One in which the leaders can come from Fedora, from Red Hat, from Novell, from Mandriva, or from anywhere. Job #1 is to take the current RPM codebase and clean it up, and in doing so work with all the other people and groups who rely on RPM to build a first-rate upstream project.
Important Fixes in flash-plugin-7.0.69-2
Warren Togami (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/WarrenTogami) points out in his blog (http://wtogami.livejournal.com/12604.html):
flash-plugin-7.0.69-2 fixes "vulnerabilities would allow remote attackers to modify HTTP headers of client requests and conduct HTTP Request Splitting attacks". Additionally, have I added a horribly ugly hack to this RPM to worksaround the hard-coded font path issue, so fonts work on Fedora Core 5+. This hack will remove itself when users later upgrade to flash-plugin-9 RPM.
Firefox Flicks on TV
Christopher Blizzard (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ChristopherBlizzard) points out in his blog (http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=250):
They will be playing some of the Firefox Flicks on TV in my local market! I just set my Tivo to record a random program in the middle of the day here in Boston. Let’s see if it catches one of them.
Southern California Linux Expo ramps up registration
According to recent article posted at DesktopLinux.com (http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS5290646235.html):
SCALE 5X, the 2007 Southern California Linux Expo to be held at the Westin Los Angeles Airport Feb. 10 and 11, has opened for attendee registration. Early bird registration runs through Jan. 24, an event spokesperson said. Participants are invited to attend more than 40 seminars and tutorials.
In a related note, thanks to Gareth J. Greenaway with Southern California Linux Expo (http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/), we have received a special promotional code for Fedora Community. Use FDORA when you're registering and purchasing tickets to recieve 40% off full priced for SCALE 5X.
Fedora's Legacy Wanes
According to recent article posted at InternetNews.com (http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3649081):
The Fedora Legacy Project is in "transition" and is closing its doors. Effective this week the project is no longer supporting Fedora Core 4 and earlier distributions.
OpenOffice.org 2.1 Is Here
Louis Suarez-Potts, OpenOffice.org Community Manager announces in OpenOffice.org Announcement List (http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=announce&msgNo=311):
The OpenOffice.org Community are proud to announce the release of OpenOffice.org 2.1, the latest version of the leading open-source office suite.
Fedora Project already released rpm packages for OpenOffice.org 2.1 (openoffice.org-core) in Development (http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/) Tree.
Fedora Weekly Reports 2006-12-11
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 December 11 - December 17, Fedora Project released 12 Fedora Core 5 Updates (http://fedoranews.org/cms/FC5) including 4 Security Advisories.
During the week of December 11 - December 17, Fedora Project released 47 Fedora Core 6 Updates (http://fedoranews.org/cms/FC6) including 4 Security Advisories.
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