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Fedora Core 6 Common Issues
by Rahul Sundaram 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

Hi Here is a list of a commonly reported issues that have come up in Fedora Core 6 along with workarounds. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/FC6Common 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. To participate in testing, refer to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Testing. Thank you for your continuous contributions and feedback. Rahul

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Fedora Weekly News Issue 64
by Thomas Chung 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

Welcome to our issue number 64 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_64 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 Announcing Fedora Core 6 (Zod) 2 Fedora Core 6 (Zod) Live-Spins Released 3 Third Party FC6 Repositories Announcements 4 Phoronix: Fedora Core 6 Review 5 Lunarpark6: Fedora Core 6 Review 6 LinuxForm: Fedora Core 6 Reivew 7 J_K9@Linux: Fedora Core 6 Review 8 O'Reily OnLamp: Fedora Core 6 Review 9 Fedora Weekly Reports 2006-10-23 10 Fedora Core 5 and 6 Updates 11 Contributing to Fedora Weekly News 12 Editor's Blog The latest issue can always be found at http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Latest_Issue We need more volunteer writers who watch the Fedora community and report about what is going on. To find out how you can contribute, please visit http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Contributing_to_Fedora_Weekly_News See you in next issue of FWN! -- Thomas Chung FedoraNEWS.ORG (http://fedoranews.org) "..where you can free your knowledge for your free community!"

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Cooperative Bug Isolation for FC6
by Ben Liblit 25 Oct '06

25 Oct '06

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. These special versions monitor their own behavior while they run, and report back how they work (or how they fail to work) in the hands of real users like you. Even if you’ve never written a line of code in your life, you can help make things better for everyone simply by using our special bug-hunting packages. We currently offer instrumented versions of Evolution, Gaim, The GIMP, GNOME Panel, Gnumeric, Nautilus, Rhythmbox, and SPIM. Download at <http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/downloads/>. We support yum, apt, and many other RPM updater tools; see <http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/downloads/repo-config.html> for customized configuration help for any of our supported distributions and updater tools. Or just download and install <http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/downloads/rpm/fedora-6-i386/RPMS.tools/cbi-packa…> to automatically configure most popular RPM updaters to use the CBI repository. It's that easy! Tell your friends! Tell your neighbors! The more of you there are, the more bugs we can find. We still offer CBI packages for Fedora Core 1/2/4/5 too. When and if you decide to upgrade to FC6, we'll be ready for you. Until then, your participation remains valuable! -- Dr. Ben, the CBI guy

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Freshrpms for FC6
by Matthias Saou 25 Oct '06

25 Oct '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I am pleased to announce that all the usual freshrpms.net are available for Fedora Core and Extras 6 i386, x86_64 and ppc : http://freshrpms.net/ http://zod.freshrpms.net/ The highlight goes to the recently introduced dkms-enabled packages : - - nvidia-x11-drv - Proprietary Nvidia video driver - - ati-x11-drv - Proprietary ATI video driver (still in testing phase) - - dkms-ipw3945 - Intel Pro Wireless 3945 driver, firmware and daemon - - madwifi - Madwifi wireless driver and tools - - dkms-ntfs - Kernel ntfs filesystem support - - dkms-pwc - Philips webcam driver with high resolution support - - dkms-lirc - Kernel support for many infrared devices You will also find all of the usual multimedia programs and libraries only a few clicks away. Have fun! Matthias - -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Fedora Core release 5.92 (FC6 Test3) - Linux kernel 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 Load : 0.06 0.04 0.06 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFP44baSrEWeQtVHsRAjV8AKDmLRnZS5LKM/W+CIU9j+Jv5n6LbQCfWmv4 qEYB/R8qD6iF5RnfC7D+U4s= =uXsh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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ATrpms for FC6
by Axel Thimm 25 Oct '06

25 Oct '06

ATrpms is officially launching Fedora Core 6 support for i386, x86_64 and ppc. http://ATrpms.net/dist/fc6/ o The actual download location is http://dl.atrpms.net/. Mirrors are listed at http://atrpms.net/mirrors/ o "stable", "testing" and "bleeding", the three subrepos per distribution are not cumulative inclusive on the server side. E.g. you need to add "stable" for "testing", and both "stable" and "testing" for "bleeding". ATrpms is a 3rd party general purpose package repository. It currently supports o FC6/i386, FC6/x86_64, FC6/ppc, FC5/i386, FC5/x86_64, FC5/ppc, FC4/i386, FC4/x86_64 FC3/i386, FC3/x86_64, FC2/i386, FC2/x86_64, FC1 o RHEL4/i386, RHEL4/x86_64, RHEL3/i386, RHEL3/x86_64 o RH9, RH8.0 and RH7.3 ATrpms support for some of these distribution will go EOL by the ned of the year. configuration for package resolvers (replace i386 with x86_64 if needed) o yum [atrpms] name=Fedora Core 6 - i386 - ATrpms baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/fc6-i386/atrpms/stable o smart [atrpms] name=Fedora Core 5 - i386 - ATrpms baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/fc5-i386/atrpms/stable type=rpm-md o apt repomd http://dl.atrpms.net fc5-i386/atrpms/stable you can provide feedback or request support on the ATrpms lists (http://lists.atrpms.net/), or the common bug tracker (http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/). Enjoy! -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net

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rpm.livna.org FC6 support
by RPM Livna.org Team 24 Oct '06

24 Oct '06

Hello Dear Fedora Users. The rpm.livna.org team is proud to announce rpm.livna.org repository complete support starting today for the 6th release of the Fedora Core and Extras distribution. The rpm.livna.org repository provides amongst many packages: - Drivers with precompiled kernel modules : ATI and Nvidia graphics drivers, ndiswrapper, madwifi. - Firmwares : ipw2100-firmware, ipw2200-firmware - Media players : xine-lib based players, mplayer, videolan client - Gstreamer plugins To use the rpm.livna.org repository, simply install the following livna-release package: http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm Bug reports can be addressed at our bugzilla: http://bugzilla.livna.org/ Have a nice Fedora Core 6, everyone. -- The RPM.Livna.org Team

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Fedora Core 6 (Zod) Live-Spins Released
by Robert 'Bob' Jensen 24 Oct '06

24 Oct '06

Fedora Unity releases Fedora Core 6 (Zod) Live-Spin ISO images. Official Fedora Live CD/DVD images are something many have been looking forward to seeing from the Fedora community. Fedora Unity has joined forces with the Kadischi development team to test and release live images, called "Live-Spins." The Fedora Unity Project is proud to announce the initial release of several Fedora Core 6 Live-Spin CD and DVD ISO images. These Live-Spins are based on the 24 October initial release of Fedora Core 6. They are available for the i386 and x86_64 architectures via BitTorrent immediately. A Live-Spin CD or DVD provides a "reasonably useful web browser/email/OpenOffice access," said Jef Spaleta, long time Fedora community member. It "should be a good quick peek at what the FC6 desktops feel like ... without having to do a full install." He added, "9 out of 10 voices in my head agree: 'Unity's Live-Spin CD is a pretty good starting point for future live CD development.'" Fedora Core 6 GNOME Live-Spin CD images (i386 and x86_64) include: 2.6.18-1.2798_FC6 kernel GNOME 2.16.0 Nautilus CD Burner 2.16.0 Firefox 1.5.0.7 Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 X-Chat 2.6.6 OpenOffice 2.0.4 Evolution 2.8.0 and various other desktop applications. The Fedora Core 6 KDE Live-Spin CD (i386 only) image includes: 2.6.18-1.2798_FC6 kernel KDE 3.5.4 K3B 0.12.15 Firefox 1.5.0.7 Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 X-Chat 2.6.6 OpenOffice 2.0.4 Evolution 2.8.0 and various other desktop applications. The Fedora Core 6 Server Live-Spin CD (i386 and x86_64) images include: 2.6.18-1.2798_FC6 kernel Apache 2.2.3 MySql 5.0.22 PHP 5.1.6 Python 2.4.3 and various other server admin utilities. The DVD images (i386 and x86_64) include: Everything for a desktop that you might want to see from under the Fedora umbrella for the same low price. It has been said in the past that Fedora Unity's Live-Spin DVD included everything but the kitchen sink. The only reason the kitchen sink is not included is that it has not yet been packaged for Fedora Extras. Nearly all the GNOME apps, nearly all the KDE apps, XFCE4, and a whole load of packages for the desktop from Fedora Extras. This ISO even includes the long wanted NTFS support by including the ntfs-3g package that is now in Extras. Because of the size of this LiveDVD you may need more than 512 MiB of RAM for it to run effectively. About The Fedora Unity Project: The Fedora Unity Project was created by concerned peers in the Fedora community to bring quality solutions to the community. We want to see the best solutions find their way into the hands of the community. We are site maintainers, Fedora Project contributors, and interested users, just like you. Fedora Unity has taken up the Live-Spin task to provide the community with the chance to test and experience Fedora Core in a live media environment. This is a community project, for the community and by the community. You can contribute to the community by seeding the torrent after your download has completed or by joining the test process. The Fedora Unity Project intends to release early and release often. We hope to release new Re-Spins and Live-Spins to the community early each month. These releases will continue throughout the life of each Fedora Core release until that release is transferred to Fedora Legacy. Early snapshots are taken mid-month to start testing. Final snapshots are taken about a week before the release. All released ISO images are tested to ensure the quality that the Fedora community expects and deserves. If you are interested in helping with the testing/development or seeding/hosting efforts, please contact the Fedora Unity team. Contact information is available at http://fedoraunity.org/contact-info . To join the torrent: http://torrent.fedoraunity.org/ For detailed package lists or the get a copy of our kickstart files: http://fedoraunity.org/ To report bugs in the Live-Spins: http://bugs.fedoraunity.org/ For more information about Kadischi: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Kadischi -- Robert 'Bob' Jensen * * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BobJensen gpg fingerprint: F9F4 7243 4243 0043 2C45 97AF E8A4 C3AE 42EB 0BC6 Fedora Unity Project * bob(a)fedoraunity.org * http://fedoraunity.org/

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Announcing Fedora Core 6 (Zod)
by Fedora Project 24 Oct '06

24 Oct '06

This is the announcement of Zod. Zod permits you to call him "Fedora Core 6". Tremble, Earthlings, for Zod is released from the confines of testing. Zod intends to hammer the servers of the world ... starting TODAY! For those who chose the world-domination-acceptance package in your last installation, you need do nothing -- Zod is beaming itself to your computers already. If your keyboard begins to get hot, back away ... very ... slowly ... For the rest of you minions who failed to do Zod's bidding previously, this is your ONE AND ONLY CHANCE to redeem yourself. Go quickly! Download the torrent NOW. Obtain the ISO immediately. Zod's minions know to back up their /home directory and to begin immediate installation of the GREATEST version of Fedora Core EVER. When you are done genuflecting, listen carefully. Zod now delivers an important message to Zod's predecessor, the Fifth Iteration of Fedora Core, known to some as Bordeaux: "KNEEL BEFORE ZOD, for Zod has many improvements that convince users to upgrade and abandon you! Ph34r me! Mwahahahaha." Zod accepts that the Fedora Project continues to provide software and security updates for Bordeaux, as per the policy of Zod's minions. Zod chooses to permit this action to continue. Those who would understand Zod must begin here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FC6ReleaseSummary http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/ Massive downloading of Zod is known to melt servers worldwide, so Zod commands all who are able to use bittorrent. http://torrent.fedoraproject.org For other ways to get Zod, read http://www.redhat.com/fedora/

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Fedora Weekly News Issue 63
by Thomas Chung 23 Oct '06

23 Oct '06

Welcome to our issue number 63 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_63 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 Fedora Core 6 Tours 2 Fedora Infrastructure Team - Help Wanted 3 Calling for Desktop Environment Artists 4 Neat Things for Fedora Core 6 5 Fedora Reloaded 6 Podcast Available 6 ATI Fedora Core 6 How-To 7 Flash Player 9 Update for Linux Released 8 Yet another online Linux distro chooser 9 Fedora Weekly Reports 2006-10-16 10 Fedora Core 5 Updates 11 Contributing to Fedora Weekly News 12 Editor's Blog The latest issue can always be found at http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Latest_Issue We need more volunteer writers who watch the Fedora community and report about what is going on. To find out how you can contribute, please visit http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Contributing_to_Fedora_Weekly_News See you in next issue of FWN! -- Thomas Chung FedoraNEWS.ORG (http://fedoranews.org) "..where you can free your knowledge for your free community!"

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Another slip in the FC6 schedule
by Jesse Keating 17 Oct '06

17 Oct '06

Over the weekend we ran into a few more bugs with Fedora Core 6 that we decided were important enough to fix. There were some multilib compose issues (wrong packages landing in the wrong dirs), some translation files that would cause tracebacks in things like anaconda (whoops), and a fedora-release package that forgot to enable updates (double whoops). For these reasons and a few others, we decided to respin the release candidate tree and push the release date out another couple of days. The current plan is to spin a release candidate this evening with some last minute fixes, and start the sync. Validation has gone very well up to this point and baring any blow ups in the spin process, the release looks very solid. We're planning to release on Thursday Oct 19th. This should give the mirrors enough days to sync up. If things blow up horribly and we have to spin again tomorrow, depending on what time we have to respin we may slip until next week, as releasing on Fridays or Mondays gets you the wrath of the mirror admins (: I want to thank you all for playing along and helping us to make FC6 the best release yet! -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora

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