announce January 2007

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Congratulations and thank you
by Matthew J. Szulik 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

On behalf of all Red Hat associates, I want to thank all members of the worldwide open source community for committing their time, skill and intellect in creating a free and open source success - the Fedora OS. Achieving >1M users in such a short time is impressive. But to me, the real success of Fedora is the validation of the peer based, open source development model that continues to innovate and produce useful technology at the lowest cost to the user. Great work. /mjs Matthew Szulik Chairman and CEO Red Hat

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Smolt: Fedora Hardware Profiler
by Mike McGrath 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

Smolt is a hardware profiler for Fedora so we can get a better idea of what type of hardware is out there in the Fedora universe. It's still in beta but those of you running FC6 or newer (rawhide) can participate. Just type "yum install smolt" followed by "smoltSendProfile". All sends are anonymous and the only tie to hardware is via a UUID that gets sent. We can't trace the UUID back to you without you giving us the UUID, which may be helpful for those experiencing hardware or driver issues. Check out the stats at http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/stats For more information on smolt look at: https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/smolt/wiki and https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/smolt/wiki/Scope -Mike

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Fedora Weekly News Issue 75
by Thomas Chung 29 Jan '07

29 Jan '07

Welcome to our issue number 75 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_75 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 Fedora 7 Test 1 Freeze 2 Fedora 7 Test 1 Approaching 3 Plymouth: The next generation RHGB 4 The Top Ten Reasons to Attend SCALE 5 Amanda 2.5.1p2 RPMS are available for Fedora Core 6 6 Security Week in Review 2007-01-21 7 Fedora Weekly Reports 2007-01-22 8 Fedora Core 5 and 6 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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Fedora Weekly News Issue 74
by Thomas Chung 22 Jan '07

22 Jan '07

Welcome to our issue number 74 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_74 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 Fedora Unity releases updated Fedora Core 6 Re-Spins 2 Fedora LiveCD On-Demand Service 3 Flash Player 9.0.31.0 released for i386 Linux 4 Fluendo makes proprietary codecs available to Linux users 5 Fedora 7: The Linux Knight in Shining Armor? 6 Security Week in Review 2007-01-14 7 Fedora Weekly Reports 2007-01-15 8 Fedora Core 5 and 6 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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Fedora Core 6 (Zod) Re-Spins from Fedora Unity
by Robert 'Bob' Jensen 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

Fedora Unity releases updated Fedora Core 6 Re-Spins. The Fedora Unity Project is proud to announce the release of new ISO Re-Spins (DVD and CD Sets) of Fedora Core 6. These Re-Spin ISOs are based on Fedora Core 6 and all updates released as of January 11th, 2007. The ISO images are available for i386 and x86_64 architectures via BitTorrent starting Thursday, January 18th, 2007. PPC images will follow within the next 5 days, but will have had only limited testing. This release was delayed while waiting for fixes to known issues with Fedora Core 6[1] as well as the creation of a new tool for composing Re-Spins. Previous releases were built with a homebrew script. This release was built with the new tool called Pungi[2], developed by Jesse Keating, a leading community member and Fedora Release Engineer, with community input. This tool will be used in future official Fedora releases and for Fedora Unity Re-Spins. We have joined in this effort to bring a full featured tool to the Fedora community, enabling anyone to build Re-Spins and Live-Spins now and in the future. 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 more than 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. We hope to provide new Re-Spins each month during the life of a Fedora Core release. We take early snapshots at mid-month to start testing, and final snapshots about a week before the release. We test all released ISO images using a test matrix to ensure the quality the Fedora community expects. If you are interested in helping with the testing or pre-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. [1] For example, the following bug that was fixed by an updated yum package according to our tests: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211941 [2] Pungi Project: https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/pungi -- 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 Weekly News Issue 73
by Thomas Chung 15 Jan '07

15 Jan '07

Welcome to our issue number 73 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_73 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 New Fedora Infrastructure Leader 2 GPG Keysigning at FUDcon 3 Preparation continues for SCALE 5X 4 Fedora Core 6 LiveCD Review 5 Red Hat's Fedora to Get Longer Support 6 Security Week in Review 2007-01-07 7 Fedora Weekly Reports 2007-01-08 8 Fedora Core 5 and 6 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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introducing our new fedora infrastructure leader
by Max Spevack 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

My fellow Fedorans, I'm very pleased to announce that Red Hat has hired Mike McGrath to be the Fedora Infrastructure Leader, as first mentioned on this list back in December. Those of you who are active contributors to Fedora already know Mike, and are familiar with his work. Mike has been a contributor to the Fedora Project for quite a while now, especially the Fedora Infrastructure group, and I'm personally very glad that we were able to hire from within for this job. There are never as many job openings as I wish there were, but when we do have openings in Fedora it is my intention that we will look to fill them from within our community first. Mike won't be starting 100% until February, but in the sense that he is already involved deeply in Fedora Infrastructure, and it's just a matter of him ramping up his time over the next few weeks. I won't take up a lot of space on fedora-announce-list with the goals and plans for Fedora Infrastructure (I'll let Mike lead that conversation on the infrastructure list), but I just wanted to announce his hiring here for the rest of the Fedora community to know about it. At a high level, I'm going to hold Mike accountable for several things: (1) The technical priorities and implementation of them, for Fedora Infrastructure and system administration. (2) The expansion of the Fedora Infrastructure community, and the continued health, contributions, and empowerment of the current contributors. (3) Leadership and fairness. The Benevolent Dictator of Fedora Infrastructure and System Administration. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure (4) Being the point person for Fedora<->Red Hat network/sysadmin issues. ==== Mike will be leading the Fedora Infrastructure Hackfest at FUDCon during February 2-4. http://barcamp.org/FudconBoston2007#HACKFEST ==== Congratulations, Mike! -- Max Spevack + http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MaxSpevack + gpg key -- http://spevack.org/max.asc + fingerprint -- CD52 5E72 369B B00D 9E9A 773E 2FDB CB46 5A17 CF21

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XaraLX Removal
by Dennis Gilmore 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

Effective immediately XaraLX has been removed from Fedora Extras for all releases. We have taken this drastic step as we have been made aware that it is in violation of Fedora Policies. While the application has been released as GPL, it contains a Static Library that is still proprietary and available in binary form only. There is a note in the source tarball stating that at some future time the library will also be released under the GPL. When that happens we will welcome XaraLX back as a package. Dennis Gilmore on behalf of FESCo

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Fedora Weekly News Issue 72
by Thomas Chung 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

Welcome to our issue number 72 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_72 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 One Million Fedora Users! 2 FUDCon Reminder 3 Fedora 7 Schedule 4 Speaking at SCALE 5 Security Features in RHEL and Fedora Core 6 Security Week in Review 2006-12-31 7 Fedora Weekly Reports 2007-01-01 8 Fedora Core 5 and 6 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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Red Hat Summit 2007 call for sessions
by Max Spevack 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

Hi all, The Red Hat Summit 2007 is coming up in May. http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/ This year, the Fedora Project is sharing a track called "Leading Edge" with projects like Mugshot and OLPC. Donald Fischer, Chris Blizzard, and I are the point people for determining what sessions will be in this track. There are 12 sessions total that we need to fill, but the breakdown between the three projects (or any other sessions we think would be interesting) is not set in stone. We've been requested to have a preliminary idea by the 19th, but that's really just "here's some promising speakers/potential topics" sort of deadline. Anyway, from the Fedora perspective, I'd like to get some community folks giving a few of the talks, so if you are interested in putting together a proposal for a session, please get in touch. Sessions are 1 hour in length. In the past the most popular format has been 45 minutes of presentation, 15 minutes for Q&A. Some of the best sessions last year were the sessions that were purely Q&A, or involved/encouraged heavy audience participation. Any questions, please ping me, blizzard, or dff. -- Max Spevack + http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MaxSpevack + gpg key -- http://spevack.org/max.asc + fingerprint -- CD52 5E72 369B B00D 9E9A 773E 2FDB CB46 5A17 CF21

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