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Fedora Outage Notice for August 30th, 2006
by Warren Togami 29 Aug '06

29 Aug '06

Date: August 30th, 2006 Time: 8:00AM - 8:00PM Mountain Standard Time (UTC -7) Fedora Project Infrastructure is scheduled for maintenance during Wednesday, August 30th for co-location facility upgrades. The servers will be back online by no later than 08:00PM MST (UTC-7). Unaffected Services: - Fedora Wiki - Fedora Mailing Lists Services Affected: - Fedora Extras Buildsystem - Fedora CVS/Mercurial/Git - Fedora Orbital Laser - Fedora Account System - Fedora OTRS Generally the entire development infrastructure will be down for the day. The good news is that this upgrade will allow for improved reliability and expansion capacity for future Fedora Infrastructure and services. We apologize for any inconvenience this outage may cause. Thank you for supporting the Fedora Project. Warren Togami wtogami(a)redhat.com

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Fedora Core Live Spins Released!
by Robert 'Bob' Jensen 28 Aug '06

28 Aug '06

Fedora Unity releases Fedora Core 5 Live-Spin ISO images. Official Fedora Live images are something we all have been looking forward to seeing in the Fedora Community. Kadischi will be the tool to create such live images. Fedora Unity has recently joined forces with Kadischi to help provide testing and to release live images which we are calling "Live-Spins." The Fedora Unity Project is proud to announce the release of a new Live-Spin CD and DVD ISO image of Fedora Core 5. These Live-Spin ISOs are based on Fedora Core 5 and all updates released as of August 21st, 2006. They are available for the i386 architecture via BitTorrent starting Monday, August 28th, 2006 via BitTorrent. The Fedora Core 5 CD image features a 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5 kernel and GNOME 2.14.1, along with applications such as xchat, gftp, OpenOffice.org 2.0.3, and other utilities. The DVD image includes roughly "everything but the kitchen sink." Also available at this time are "pristine" FC6T2 Live ISO images from the initial FC6T2 release. The Fedora Unity Project was created by concerned peers in the Fedora Community to bring quality solutions to the Community. Project members want to see the best solutions find their way into the hands of the Community. Members include site maintainers, Fedora Project contributors and interested users. Fedora Unity has taken up the Live-Spin task to provide the Community with the chance to test Fedora Core with recent updates 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. New Live-Spins are provided early each month during 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 will be taken about a week before the release. All released ISO images are tested to ensure the quality that the Fedora community expects. If you are interested in helping with the testing or seeding efforts, please contact the Fedora Unity team. Contact information is available at http://fedoraunity.org/. Go to http://torrent.fedoraunity.org/ to join the torrent! To report bugs in the Live-Spins please use http://bugs.fedoraunity.org/ For more information about Kadischi see it's page on the wiki http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Kadischi Fedora is a trademark of Red Hat, Inc. -- 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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Fedora Core 5 Re-Spin 20060818 Released!
by Robert 'Bob' Jensen 28 Aug '06

28 Aug '06

Again, Fedora Unity releases updated Fedora Core 5 Re-Spins. The Fedora Unity Project is proud to announce the release of new DVD ISO Re-Spins of Fedora Core 5. These Re-Spin ISOs are based upon Fedora Core 5 and all updates released as of August 18th, 2006. The ISO images are available for i386 and x86_64 architectures via BitTorrent starting Monday, August 28th, 2006. The Fedora Unity Project was created by concerned peers in the Fedora Community to bring quality solutions to the Community. Project members want to see the best solutions find their way into the hands of the Community. Members include site maintainers, Fedora Project contributors and interested users. Fedora Unity has taken up the Re-Spin task to provide the Community with the chance to install Fedora Core with recent updates already included. These updates might otherwise comprise up to 700MiB of downloads for a default install. This is a Community project, for 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 often. New Re-Spins are provided early each month during the life of a 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 using a 15-point test matrix to ensure the quality the Fedora community expects. If you are interested in helping with the testing or seeding efforts, please contact the Fedora Unity team. Contact information is available at http://fedoraunity.org/. Go to http://torrent.fedoraunity.org/ to join the torrent! To report bugs in the Re-Spins please use http://bugs.fedoraunity.org/ Fedora is a trademark of Red Hat, Inc. -- 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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What's been up to FedoraNEWS.ORG?
by Thomas Chung 25 Aug '06

25 Aug '06

As we have reached our 60th Issue[1] of Fedora Weekly News, I thought it would be a good time to look back what's been up to FedoraNEWS.ORG for next few month. Looking back, it's been quite a journey for FedoraNEWS.ORG when it was first launched on 2003-11-09[2]. It started as my personal web site where I publish notes I took as I explore Fedora Core 1. Since then, the site has changed its face a few times from HTML to WordPress then WikiMedia and now Drupal. Our weekly newsletter Fedora Weekly News is now being translated in 8 different languages including English, French, German, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, Korean, Serbian and we're even offering Podcast in English and French! What a remarkable accomplishment you might say. To tell you the truth, there were times when I wake up middle of the night to start the article and finish it well after 4 in the morning and asking myself why am I doing this? Does this ever end? When will be a good time to take a break? A perfect time has come. Beginning Monday August 28th until Sunday October 1st, FedoraNEWS.ORG will be taking a long vacation. It's time for us (me and my wife) to give full attention to our unborn baby and soon-to-be new member of Fedora Community. :) [1] http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_60 [2] http://fedoranews.org/tchung/howto/2003-11-09-yum-intro.shtml Best Regards, -- Thomas Chung FedoraNEWS.ORG (http://fedoranews.org) "..where you can free your knowledge for your free community!"

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Fedora Weekly News Issue 60
by Thomas Chung 21 Aug '06

21 Aug '06

Welcome to our issue number 60 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_60 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 Max Spevack: Fedora on Slashdot 2 Jesse Keating: Fedora Legacy Answers 3 Rahul Sundaram: Red Hat and Intellectual Property Reform 4 Luke Macken: Teaching an old pup some new tricks 5 Tom Tromey: Fedora Core 6 Test 2 6 XenSource CTO Talks Up Xen Virtualization 7 OLPC laptops to debut with Thai kids 8 Where's Red Hat? Peek Under Fedora 9 Fedora Weekly Reports 2006-08-14 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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Slashdot interview with Fedora Project leader Max Spevack
by Rahul Sundaram 18 Aug '06

18 Aug '06

Hi Slashdot has done a interview with Fedora Project leader Max Spevack. http://interviews.slashdot.org/interviews/06/08/17/177220.shtml Feel free to contact the Fedora Project Board on any follow up questions or feedback. Thank you for your interest. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board Rahul Sundaram

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Fedora Weekly News Issue 59
by Thomas Chung 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

Welcome to our issue number 59 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_59 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 Join Fedora @ LinuxWorld SF 2006 2 Announcing Fedora Core 6 Test 2 3 Fedora Core 4 Transferred to Fedora Legacy 4 Fedora Core 4 Support and Yum Config 5 Fedora usability was born! 6 Review: Fedora Core 6 - First Impressions 7 Fedora Weekly Reports 2006-08-07 8 Fedora Core 5 Updates 9 Contributing to Fedora Weekly News 10 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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Join Fedora @ LinuxWorld SF 2006
by Jack Aboutboul 09 Aug '06

09 Aug '06

Hitch yer saddles and get on yer ponies because Fedora is going west!! What? The Fedora Project booth (.org Pavilion #20) (http://tinyurl.com/gu3a2) and Birds of a Feather Session (http://tinyurl.com/krj2p) at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo San Francisco 2006! (http://www.linuxworldexpo.com) Where? Moscone Center North 800 Howard Street San Francisco, CA 94103 When? Fedora Booth is open on the show floor in the .org Pavilion August 15-17. The Fedora BoF will be held on Tuesday August 15th at 6:00pm-7:00pm. Who? Everyone!! Fedora welcomes all community members and anyone interested in learning about attaining freedom through software. Don't know what Linux or Fedora is? Interested in learning more about Linux, Fedora and how they can benefit you? Stop by the booth and ask your questions and get free stuff! Are you already a member of the community with time to kill and would like to help us run the booth? Email jaboutboul(a)fedoraproject.org and let him know. How? Plane, train, bus, horse, camel, lamaa. Make sure you print your free exhibit hall pass by visiting http://tinyurl.com/grr2l and registering. See you all in San Francisco!

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Fedora usability was born!
by Damien Durand 07 Aug '06

07 Aug '06

Hello everyone, I announce that the Fedora usability Project was born. What's fedora Usability? The Fedora Usability project aims to provide coherence, accessibility and intuivity for all people using Fedora Core and its associated resources. Fedora must be easy and making things simple and coherent for a pleasant use is my objectif with this project. Our Mission - Help developers to build coherent and easy to use applications for Fedora human users - Help webmasters to provide coherent websites - Help Docs Writers to provide a coherent and comprehensive documentation How do we work? We track uncoherent things in the fedora project and send patch to different maintainers to fix those. All things are listed on the schedule and you are free to provide your assistance. For more informations about this project, see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Usability You want help ? Feel free to add your name to the Usability Group : http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EditGroup You can join http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list and #fedora-usability channel on irc.freenode.org to speak about this ;-) Damien Durand

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Fedora Core 4 Transferred to Fedora Legacy
by Bill Nottingham 07 Aug '06

07 Aug '06

With the release of Fedora Core 6 Test 2, the Fedora Core Steering Committee would like to announce the transfer of Fedora Core 4 to the Fedora Legacy Project. For more information on the Fedora Legacy Project, or if you wish to join the team, please see http://fedoralegacy.org/.

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