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Fedora 10 Cambridge Spins : Other Planetary Systems
by Chitlesh GOORAH 29 Nov '08

29 Nov '08

Hello there, While astronomers took first ever pictures of other planetary systems [1] last month, the fedora community was building its own planetary systems. Some say one planet isn't enough, other strive to enlarge their own planet. While F-10 Cambridge elevates the performance barrier and much more, other planetary spins have been geared to specific applications. Ladies and Gentlemen, the following spins have also been released together with Fedora 10 Cambridge release to ensure that you will be the most productive in your specific work environment with opensource software: - Fedora Electronic Lab - Fedora KDE - Fedora Edu-Math - Fedora XFCE - Fedora AOS - Fedora Developer - Fedora BrOffice For more details, please visit https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Spins/10 All these official spins can be downloaded at http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ for both i386 and x86_64 architectures as LiveCDs or LiveDVDs. [1]: http://gizmodo.com/5086678/astronomers-take-first-ever-pics-of-other-planet… Kind regards, Chitlesh GOORAH

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Fedora Board IRC meeting 1900 UTC 2008-12-02
by Paul W. Frields 27 Nov '08

27 Nov '08

The Board is holding its monthly public meeting on Tuesday, 2 December 2008, at 1900 UTC on IRC Freenode. The Board has settled on a schedule that puts these public IRC meetings on the first Tuesday of each month. Therefore, the next following public meeting will be on 6 January 2008. For these meetings, the public is invited to do the following: * Join #fedora-board-meeting to see the Board's conversation. This channel is read-only for non-Board members. * Join #fedora-board-public to discuss topics and post questions. This channel is read/write for everyone. The moderator will direct questions from the #fedora-board-public channel to the Board members at #fedora-board-meeting. This should limit confusion and ensure our logs are useful to everyone. We look forward to seeing you at the meeting. Paul

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Reminder of Fedora 8 end-of-life
by Jon Stanley 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

As a reminder, Fedora has a policy of ending maintenance for a release one month after the release of Fedora N+2 (i.e. Fedora 8 maintenance would end one month after Fedora 10 was released). In this instance, that date would be December 25. At today's FESCo meeting [1], it was decided to slightly deviate from this policy. This decision was made in order to avoid having it happen over the holidays, since according to policy, EOL would have been on Christmas Day. It was therefore decided to extend the end-of-life date of Fedora 8 to Jan 7, 2009. After this time, there will be no more updates, including security updates, issued for Fedora 8, and new builds will no longer be allowed in koji, our buildsystem. Also at or shortly after that time, all bugs open against Fedora 8 will be closed, since no more updates will be made. Thanks! -Jon [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-November/msg02014.ht…

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From Jim Whitehurst: F10!
by Paul W. Frields 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

Hello everyone, Jim Whitehurst has sent us the following congratulatory message on Fedora 10. I'm forwarding it myself, since the mailing list software seems not to care that Jim could have it erased with the drop of his big red hat, and keeps swallowing his email to us! ;-) Paul Frields * * * * * FROM: Jim Whitehurst RE: F10! Yesterday marked the tenth release of Fedora, and I wanted to take the opportunity to congratulate the Fedora community. We at Red Hat are glad to be part of Fedora, and in fact I've already downloaded and installed it myself. Ten releases in five years is an astonishing pace of innovation, and the community has much to be proud of. Over the last five years the Fedora Project has come far: creating a publicly available packaging code base, establishing a completely free and open source infrastructure for its engineering processes, unifying the software repositories, and developing scalable, local grassroots communities. As a result of those efforts, you've also created artwork, marketing, project hosting, mirroring tools, and many other pieces of free software that will benefit the entire Linux ecosystem. One of the things that sets Fedora apart is its unwavering commitment to working with upstream software projects. By working with upstream, you can take advantage of the full power of the open source development model. That helps create more value in Red Hat's product offerings, but it also results in a more sustainable process for open source worldwide. I want to thank each and every one of Fedora's thousands of contributors, and again, congratulations on Fedora 10!

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Cooperative Bug Isolation for Fedora 10
by Ben Liblit 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

The Cooperative Bug Isolation Project (CBI) is now available for Fedora 10. 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, The GIMP, GNOME Panel, Gnumeric, Nautilus, Pidgin, Rhythmbox, and SPIM. Download at <http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/downloads/>. We support PackageManager, 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-10-i386/RPMS.tools/cbi-pack…> 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 1/2/4/5/6/7/8/9 as well. When and if you decide to upgrade to Fedora 10, we'll be ready for you. Until then, your participation remains valuable even on older distributions. -- Dr. Ben, the CBI guy

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Outage Notification - Fedorapeople.org 2008-11-30 06:00 UTC -> 2008-11-30 18:00 UTC
by Seth Vidal 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

Outage Notification - 2008-11-30 06:00 UTC There will be an outage starting at 2008-11-30 06:00 UTC, which will last approximately 12 hours. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2008-11-30 06:00 UTC' Affected Services: fedorapeople.org planet.fedoraproject.org Reason for Outage: The building where the system is housed is losing power for 12 hours for renovation work Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage. -sv

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ATrpms for Fedora 10; upcoming EOL for Fedora 8
by Axel Thimm 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

ATrpms is officially launching Fedora 9 support. http://ATrpms.net/dist/f10/ 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 F10/i386, F10/x86_64, F9/i386, F9/x86_64, F8/i386, F8/x86_64 o RHEL5/i386, RHEL5/x86_64, RHEL4/i386, RHEL4/x86_64, RHEL3/i386, RHEL3/x86_64 F10 support will be EOL'd once the Fedora Project drops support for it (e.g. in about a month's time). Configuration for package resolvers (replace i386 with x86_64 or ppc as needed) o yum [atrpms] name=Fedora 10 - i386 - ATrpms baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/f10-i386/atrpms/stable o smart [atrpms] name=Fedora 10 - i386 - ATrpms baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/f10-i386/atrpms/stable type=rpm-md o apt repomd http://dl.atrpms.net f10-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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Cambridge Launched to Explore Solar System (Fedora 10)
by Jesse Keating 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

DATELINE: 2008-11-25 KEY FINGERPRINT: 61A8 ABE0 91FF 9FBB F4B0 7709 BF22 6FCC 4EBF C273 LOCATION: GEOSYNC ORBIT, FEDORA SPACE STATION VIA GLOBAL IRC NETWORK BROADCASTING: FREEDOM FRIENDS FEATURES FIRST (Cue J. Strauss' "Blue Danube.") THIS IS FEDORA SPACE OPERATIONS ANNOUNCING with great pleasure the successful launch of the new ship, Fedora 10: "Cambridge." Strapped into the pilot seats are the latest GNOME (2.24) and KDE (4.1), accompanied on their amazing journey by an all star crew of glitch free audio, better printing and webcam support, and a new faster graphical startup. Also on this ride are wireless connection sharing and the next evolution in PackageKit, hooking through your multimedia applications to help install supporting software (codecs). For developers and system administrators on this mission, we have built in appliance tools, Eclipse 3.4, NetBeans IDE, improved virtualization management with remote installation and storage capabilities, RPM 4.6, and new security auditing toolsets. Please remember to polarize viewports to properly enjoy Cambridge's brand new graphics theme, "Solar," shining on the desktop. Also on this flight is a new lightweight desktop environment, LXDE, joining the more recent desktop envionment crew member, Sugar (from the starship OLPC XO), and the venerable GNOME, KDE, and XFCE. We are now leaving drydock for a 13-month mission of innovation and exploration. Crew members and guests are invited to the forward lounge to use, study, modify, and redistribute. Get your copy of Fedora 10 today: http://get.fedoraproject.org/ Join the many thousands of Fedora particpants and contributors: http://join.fedoraproject.org/ If you missed the official launch, attend a Fedora 10 Launch Party near you: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/ReleaseParty [ This message was created by the Fedora Documentation Project ] -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating

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RPM Fusion free and nonfree repositories for Fedora 10 (Cambridge) now available
by Thorsten Leemhuis 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The RPM Fusion team is proud to announce the public availability of our ''free'' and ''nonfree'' package repositories for Fedora 10 (Cambridge). The repositories contain multimedia applications, kernel drivers, games and other software the Fedora Project doesn't want to ship for various reasons. RPM Fusion repositories give Fedora 10 the ability to play all kinds of audio and video -- including, but not limited to MP3s or video files in MPEG or Xvid formats. You can browse the repository contents for the i386 architecture via these URLs (x86-64, ppc and ppc64 are supported as well): http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/releases/10/Everything/i386/os/r… http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/releases/10/Everything/i386/o… To make RPM Fusion repositories available on a freshly installed Fedora 10 system run the following command: {{{ | $ su -c 'rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.no… http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-sta…' }}} More details about how to configure and use RPM Fusion can be found in our wiki: http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration You can also enable RPM Fusion while installing Fedora 10 -- details and some screenshots that should give you an idea how everything works can be found at http://rpmfusion.org/EnablingRpmFusionDuringFedoraInstall Please note that the graphics drivers from AMD are not yet available in the repositories as it seems they don't work with F10 right now. If you know how to make them work let us know, then we'll try to ship them as an update as soon as possible. There is still a lot of room for a whole lot of improvements in RPM Fusion. If you are a packager (or want to become one) then join us! Our mailing lists can be found at http://lists.rpmfusion.org/mailman/listinfo Thanks for you interest in RPM Fusion. ~ The RPM Fusion Team (http://rpmfusion.org) == More details == === Reminder for the folks that plan to yum-update to Fedora 10 === If you have rpmfusion packages installed on your system already and plan to live-update to Fedora 10 using yum then please leave the rpmfusion repositories enabled for the big "yum update" run. Thus you'll get all the updated packages from RPM Fusion as well, which is important, as their dependencies get fulfilled by the Fedora 10 packages. That's not the case for the old packages that are on your system right now -- those in fact have dependencies on the older Fedora bits you are about to update, which will lead to a lot of trouble. === Examples to get the most important bits from RPM Fusion === Once you installed the release rpm you can install software using the graphical software installation tools which are part of Fedora. As root-user you can also use yum on a command line to install packages; for example: ~ * if you'd like to install Xine (a video player), run {{{ # yum install xine-lib-extras-freeworld xine }}} That will also improve Totem capabilities, as the Totem from F10 can use xine as backend as well. ~ * if you prefer MPlayer, run {{{ # yum install mplayer-gui }}} ~ * if you prefer VLC, run {{{ # yum install vlc }}} ~ * do you want to get enhanced audio and video support in applications that rely on GStreamer? Then run this: {{{ # yum install gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-ffmpeg }}} ~ * do you want to get the latest Nvidia drivers? Then run this: {{{ # yum install kmod-nvidia }}} ~ Note that there are also "kmod-nvidia-173xx" and "kmod-nvidia-96xx" -- those are the legacy drivers that support older GeForce cards that are not supported by the latest drivers. === Problems? === Let us know via http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/ === Need support? === Many people in #rpmfusion on freenode and on rpmfusion-users(a)lists.rpmfusion.org know how to help. === Developer contact === Meet us in #rpmfusion on freenode or join the mailing list at http://lists.rpmfusion.org/mailman/listinfo === EOF === End of file -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkksCSYACgkQUjQh93TopkG1JgCfdXbO7+EBLtJ808FT9P4CHXL6 k4cAoIdiJdzsZRI2FcSlpc16WtQj0GOB =cS2P -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Fedora 10 around the corner!
by Paul W. Frields 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

As we all get ready for tomorrow's release, I wanted to congratulate everyone in the community on Fedora 10, and say a few words of thanks as well. For Fedora 9, I wrote an enormous congratulatory email tome. I'm pretty sure that if printed and left somewhere without anyone keeping an eye on it, it would actually collapse into a singularity and devour the entire planet. So I'll try to keep it more brief this time, even though it's tough for me to pack all my gratitude and pride in this community into a tiny space. First, I'd like to thank Brian Pepple and FESCo, Francesco Ugolini and the FAMSCo, Dimitris Glezos and the FLSCo, Karsten Wade and the FDSCo, and all the other steering committees and groups that kept up a steady presence of open, public meetings throughout the release to ensure that work was progressing well and transparently. These folks step up not just to do productive work on their own, but to make sure that other community members can do the same, with just as much organization as is required, but no more than is needed. You folks represent the best of what free software communities can achieve in executing the best-laid plans. A big thank-you to "Marvelous" Mike McGrath and our intrepid Infrastructure team, without whom Fedora would have been in a shambles following the intrusion this past August. These folks rebuilt our entire community platform, spending many sleepless nights so our nights would be restful and secure. And they did it all with the same software we make available for everyone worldwide -- proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that free software is truly the best way to achieve stability, scalability, and availability. There are not enough gold medals in the Olympics for you guys, as far as I'm concerned. A huge shout goes out to our Ambassador teams worldwide -- over 600 Ambassadors already, and more every month. Just as they have been for years, they're out there bringing local communities together around free software. Every day they are cultivating a grassroots effort that brings an increasing number of contributors into the world of free software, and at the same time brings the four foundations of Fedora to the people -- "Freedom, Friends, Features, First." Speaking of which, another big burst of gratitude goes to Máirín Duffy, Nicu Buculei, and the rest of our awesome Artwork team. Their work spans the length of every release, because it's not just a desktop background theme -- even though they produce another miraculously beautiful one of those every time, like Fedora 10's "Solar" theme. They also produce designs for every part of our community, like software project sites, banners, stickers, fliers, press contact letters, and posters. If you haven't seen them already, you're going to love the new Four Foundations media; it's spectacular. Thank you(*) also to the hundreds of translators work on the projects where Fedora provides the upstream. Because of them, free software will be even more useful in the hands of millions more people around the world. I sometimes switch my computer to a different locale just so I can see Fedora, in a sense, through someone else's eyes, and I'm always surprised and gratified to see how thorough that experience is. Kudos to our Websites team, now led by wunderkind Ricky Zhou, and their dedicated work to make sure that our redesigns and content make it out in one piece, on time and smoothly. Thanks to Will Woods, James Laska, Jon Stanley, and the rest of our QA team and the vital Bug Zappers for taking on some of the hardest problems out there: The elusive search for quality and robustness in our releases and our processes, and ensuring that our users and developers have a positive experience using the Fedora distribution. I spent a month or so helping triage bugs earlier this cycle, and I hope everyone will pitch in a bit for Fedora 11 to do the same. Packagers, where would be without you? You help keep the software available for everyone 24/7, always making sure that whether someone's a wee-hours developer or a day-job professional, he or she gets the software needed to do the work. Thank you for providing over 10,000 reasons (and counting) why Fedora is for anyone and everyone. Thanks to our Documentation team, particularly some of our new folks, for spinning up brand-new, easy ways for people to get involved in projects like wiki gardening, the release notes, and our various end-user guides. I am very much looking forward to your good work continuing into the next release. Thank you to Jesse Keating, Josh Boyer, and our whole Release Engineering team for keeping a close eye on our schedule and actually getting our releases out the door, from Alpha to Beta to Preview to "Cambridge" itself, and everything in between. I still don't know how you guys get all this done and still have time for email, family, and the occasional frosty beverage, but my hat's off to you guys. I want to personally thank three very special individuals who work incredibly hard behind the scenes at least as hard as they do in front of them -- the indomitable Fedora Program Manager John Poelstra, who has not only shepherded innumerable Fedora meetings successfully, but who maintains a great attitude and is such a joy to work with on a personal level; the amazing Tom 'spot' Callaway, who not only juggles Perl in his sleep and maintains an encyclopedic knowledge of all things Anuran, but also manages Fedora Engineering inside Red Hat with a sure and steady hand; and Max Spevack, my predecessor and now manager of the Community Architecture team, who's always ready to lend an effort wherever it's required that day. Last, but certainly not least, I want to thank you, the reader, if I haven't already. You're part of our community too, and without you we would be diminished. Free software isn't just about bits and bytes, it's about people, about doing something real, something tangible, something lasting for your fellow human beings. And with your help, the Fedora Project has been able to lead in free software innovation for over five years and ten releases now. Each and every one of you -- pat yourself on the back for a job well done. OK, I failed miserably at making it short, and I am certain that I left someone out in my desire to thank everyone. If it was you, Dear Reader, please accept my humble apologies and know that Fedora would not be where it is today without your hard work and perseverance. Thank you from the bottom of my heart on behalf of your fellow community members and the millions of users whom you've helped. Now, let's all look forward to Fedora 10, and beyond! = = = (*) 謝謝, merci, אַ דאַנק, ευχαριστώ, धन्यवाद, muchas gracias, நன்றி, tak, kia ora, terima kasih, شكرًا, ขอบคุณ, ありがとう! -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug

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