Fedora Weekly News Issue 75
From FedoraNEWS.ORG
Written by Thomas Chung on 2007-01-29
This issue is also available in the following languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, Korean, Serbian, Greek, Italian, Chinese
Welcome to our issue number 75 of Fedora Weekly News (FWN), the weekly newsletter for the Fedora community. The latest issue can always be found here.
| Table of contents |
Fedora 7 Test 1 Freeze
Jesse Keating (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JesseKeating) reports in fedora-maintainers list (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2007-January/msg00257.html):
The targets have changed a bit, we're only going to compose Fedora Desktop, and a LiveCD to accompany it. Other spins may be done later and be published in a yet to be determined locations, as we try to fine tune them, but for the "official" test 1, just the desktop.
Also here is a short FAQ (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2007-January/msg00260.html) regarding the number of CDs, DVD and LiveCD.
Fedora 7 Test 1 Approaching
Jeremy Katz (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JeremyKatz) points out in his blog (http://katzj.livejournal.com/400060.html):
As has been pretty apparent, we're working for Fedora 7 to get to where Core and Extras don't really exist as separate entitites. This include common source control, common build system, and just continued overall unification. Getting to that point, though, is taking a fair bit of time as there are a lot of little details that have to be worked out and there's a fair bit of getting agreement on various things. We're not quite to where I had hoped we'd be for test1, but the light at the end of the tunnel is getting brighter.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/7
Plymouth: The next generation RHGB
Kristian Høgsberg (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KristianHoegsberg) points out in his blog (http://hoegsberg.blogspot.com/2007/01/plymouth.html):
Leading up to FUDCon, I figured I should expand a bit on the "executive summary" from the previous post. Plymouth is the code name for the next generation RHGB (Red Hat Graphical Boot) effort, and as I hinted in the previous post, the key idea is to put the X server in the initramfs.
The Top Ten Reasons to Attend SCALE
Southern California Linux Expo (http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale5x/) announces in their announce-list (http://mail.socallinuxexpo.com/pipermail/scale-announce/2007-January/000035.html):
After working on press releases for the So Cal Linux Expo for literally months, you run a bit dry sometimes. I asked the SCALE volunteers with suggestions for reasons why you'd want to come to SCALE. Here's what we came up with: The top Ten Reasons to attend the So Cal Linux Expo! Come to SCALE and have a blast! SCALE will be February 9-11, 2007, at The Westin LAX Hotel.
Amanda 2.5.1p2 RPMS are available for Fedora Core 6
Paddy Sreenivasan (http://fedoranews.org/cms/user/688) reports via FedoraNEWS.ORG CMS (http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2479):
Amanda (http://amanda.zmanda.com/) is one of popular open source network backup and recovery software. It supports various versions of Linux, UNIX, Mac OS-X and Microsoft Windows. Amanda 2.5.1p2, latest version of Amanda is available for downloads at Zmanda downloads page (http://www.zmanda.com/downloads.html). RPMs for Fedora core 3, 4, 5 and 6 are available.
Security Week in Review 2007-01-21
Josh Bressers (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JoshBressers) reports in his blog (http://www.bress.net/blog/index.php?/archives/50-Security-Week-in-Review-2007-01-21.html):
This week would appear to be pretty tame given how few security updates there were. Fedora Core saw zero security update while Red Hat Enterprise Linux saw two. The most notable thing that happened this week was a bind update.
Fedora Weekly Reports 2007-01-22
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 January 22 - January 28, Fedora Project released 09 Fedora Core 5 Updates (http://fedoranews.org/cms/FC5) including 00 Security Advisories.
During the week of January 22 - January 28, Fedora Project released 31 Fedora Core 6 Updates (http://fedoranews.org/cms/FC6) including 00 Security Advisories.
Contributing to Fedora Weekly News
Would you like to contribute your article to Fedora Weekly News?
Editor's Blog
Let's see anything interesting happened in Editor's Blog (http://fedoranews.org/cms/blog/ThomasChung) besides Fedora Weekly News
