Fedora Project Contributor Agreement Draft Revision Posted (Replacement for Fedora Individual Contributor License Agreement)
by Tom Callaway
Hi Fedora!
Thanks for taking the time to read and comment on the Fedora Project
Contributor Agreement (FPCA). We listened to your concerns, and have
amended the draft slightly.
Here are the key changes that we've made:
1) We removed undefined references to "free".
2) We replaced the term "electronic" with "digital".
3) Most importantly, we made several changes to explicitly address the
problem of reuse of default-licensed CC-BY-SA content within
GPL-covered works. (Basically, we added a GPL exception.)
The full text of the revised FPCA, along with a FAQ, can be found here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Revised_Fedora_CLA_Draft
Fedora Legal wishes to give the Fedora community a window of time for
discussion and review of the revised FPCA. Due to the fact that the
changes are relatively minor, and the original draft has been open for
comments for some time now, this second window is open until June 4,
2010 (2010-06-04). After that point, either another revised FPCA will be
released for review, or we will begin the process of phasing in the FPCA
and phasing out the Fedora ICLA.
Thanks in advance,
Tom "spot" Callaway, Fedora Legal
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Thank-you message from the Board
by Paul W. Frields
We've had yet another in a long line of successful releases of the
Fedora distribution. Now that the furor over the first few release
days has passed, we on the Board want to recognize the outstanding
efforts of our friends and colleagues in the Fedora Project.
A huge amount of development work has gone into this release, on a
variety of features from desktops to drivers, by ambitious engineers.
Package maintainers have kept up with myriad upstreams to provide the
best of what works today for millions of consumers. Our designers
made everything beautiful, cleaning up icons, building thematic web
banners, and providing a brilliant backdrop for daily work.
Documentation writers kept track of changes in the distribution and
made sure that studious users can find information they need.
Translators around the world made Fedora 13 ready for a global user
base, working together with developers and writers to localize content
into dozens of languages.
Release engineering made sure everything was built according to spec
and provided publicly on multiple schedules throughout the release
cycle. The bug triage and quality assurance teams repeatedly tested
Fedora, identified problems, and helped move them to resolution to
make the distro as stable as possible.
The project's system administrators made sure all our bits were in
their rightful places and available around the world as easily as
possible to the public. Our marketing and Ambassadors teams and the
good folks at the Fedora Weekly News continue to work together to
spread information and updates about our project and distribution
consistently and globally.
In short, from every person who has promoted or provided Fedora, filed
or fixed a bug, written or packaged code, labored over writing or
translation, gardened the wiki, built or remixed the distro, helped
their fellow users and contributors in a positive spirit of free and
open source community -- thank you to each and every one of you!
With sincere gratitude,
The Fedora Project Board
Christopher Aillon
Josh Boyer
Tom 'spot' Callaway
Matt Domsch
Paul W. Frields
Dennis Gilmore
Mike McGrath
John Poelstra
Chris Tyler
Colin Walters
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Fedora Board and FESCo Election results
by Paul W. Frields
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The Fedora elections for the Fedora Project Board and the Fedora
Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) have concluded, and the results
follow:
The Board is electing 3 seats this cycle. A total of 229 ballots were
cast, meaning a candidate could accumulate up to 1374 votes (229 * 6).
The results for the Fedora Board election are as follows:
name | # votes
- --------------------------+---------
Tom Callaway (spot) | 1001
Máirín Duffy (mizmo) | 978
Rex Dieter (rdieter) | 772
- --------------------------+---------
Stephen Smoogen (smooge) | 559
John McDonough (jjmcd) | 437
Larry Cafiero (lcafiero) | 430
Therefore, Tom Callaway, Máirín Duffy, and Rex Dieter are elected to
the Board for a full two-release term.
* * *
FESCo is electing 5 seats this cycle. A total of 180 ballots were
cast, meaning a candidate could accumulate up to 1260 votes (180 *
7). The results for the FESCo election are as follows:
name | # votes
- ------------------------------+---------
Bill Nottingham (notting) | 937
Kevin Fenzi (kevin) | 749
Matthias Clasen (mclasen) | 681
Kyle McMartin (kyle) | 545
Steven M. Parrish (tuxbrewr) | 516
- ------------------------------+---------
Bruno Wolff III (bruno) | 492
Justin M. Forbes (jforbes) | 460
Therefore, Bill Nottingham, Kevin Fenzi, Matthias Clasen, Kyle
McMartin, and Steven M. Parrish are elected to FESCo for a full
two-release term.
* * *
Congratulations to the winning candidates, and thank you to each of
the nominees for running, and our volunteers and team members for
their assistance.
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Fedora Weekly News 227
by Pascal Calarco
* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 227
o 1.1 Announcements
+ 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News
# 1.1.1.1 Fedora 13 Released
* 1.1.1.1.1 What's New in Fedora 13?
o 1.1.1.1.1.1 For desktop users
o 1.1.1.1.1.2 For developers
o 1.1.1.1.1.3 For system administrators
* 1.1.1.1.2 Fedora Spins
* 1.1.1.1.3 Power PC Support
* 1.1.1.1.4 Contributing
* 1.1.1.1.5 Fedora 14
* 1.1.1.1.6 Contact information
# 1.1.1.2 Fedora Community Gaming Session 4 - Hedgewars
# 1.1.1.3 ATrpms for Fedora 13; upcoming EOL for Fedora 11
# 1.1.1.4 Announcing Sugar on a Stick v.3 (Mirabelle)
+ 1.1.2 Fedora Development News
# 1.1.2.1 CVS branches for F-11 closed
+ 1.1.3 Fedora Events
# 1.1.3.1 Upcoming Events (March 2010 to May 2010)
# 1.1.3.2 Past Events
# 1.1.3.3 Additional information
o 1.2 Planet Fedora
+ 1.2.1 General
o 1.3 Fedora In the News
+ 1.3.1 Fedora 13 released with open 3D drivers and Python 3 stack (Ars Technica)
+ 1.3.2 Fedora 13 Linux "Goddard" Takes Flight - (CIO Update)
+ 1.3.3 Rock it (The H Open - UK)
+ 1.3.4 Fedora 13 – Linux for Applephobes (The Register - UK)
+ 1.3.5 Red Hat releases Fedora 13 (v3.co.uk)
+ 1.3.6 Fedora 13 brims with updates: Lucky for some (The Inquirer - UK)
+ 1.3.7 Seven Reasons to Upgrade to Fedora 13 (Linux.com)
+ 1.3.8 Oh My Goddard! An Early Look at Fedora 13 (Linux Magazine)
o 1.4 Ambassadors
+ 1.4.1 Fedora Ambassador Day North America held
+ 1.4.2 Campus Ambassadors up and running
+ 1.4.3 Let us know about your Fedora 13 activities
o 1.5 QualityAssurance
+ 1.5.1 Fedora 13 testing
+ 1.5.2 Fedora 13 QA Retrospective
+ 1.5.3 Making QA sexy
+ 1.5.4 Triage scripting
+ 1.5.5 AutoQA
o 1.6 Translation
+ 1.6.1 Problems with Guide Submissions
+ 1.6.2 Changes in Fedora Website Pages
+ 1.6.3 Fedora 13 Tasks for the Week
+ 1.6.4 New Members in FLP
o 1.7 Security Advisories
+ 1.7.1 Fedora 13 Security Advisories
+ 1.7.2 Fedora 12 Security Advisories
+ 1.7.3 Fedora 11 Security Advisories
o 1.8 KDE
+ 1.8.1 KDE SC 4.5 Beta 1 coming to kde-redhat/unstable
+ 1.8.2 New VLC-based phonon backend available
o 1.9 Special topic: Fedora Summer Coding
+ 1.9.1 Program quiet while mentors work
- Fedora Weekly News Issue 227 -
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 227[1] for the week ending May 26, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue.
This week's issue kicks off with many announcements from the Fedora Project over the past week, including much detail on the release of Fedora 13, amongst many other items. In news from the Fedora Planet, some discussion on Google-sponsored new VP8/WebM open video standards, a last chance to vote in the various Fedora Board elections, and an article on "12 tips to getting things done in open source." In this week's Fedora In the News, we cover previews and reviews about the brand-new Fedora 13 release from around the globe. In Ambassador news, lots of coverage from the recent Fedora Ambassador Day North America, including links to blog postings about last week's event held at Iowa State University. The QA Team brings some brief news focused around the lead-up to Fedora 13. Translation team news is next, including recent changes in the design of Fedora documentation structure, an overview of Fedora 13 tasks from this past week and a new member of the Fedora Localization Project for Arabic. Security Advisories covers the security-related packages released for Fedora 11, 12 and 13 over the past week. News from the KDE SIG is next, including arrival of KDE SC 4.5 beta to KDE-RedHat unstable repositories for Fedora 13, and recent work on a new Phenon backend for VLC. This issue wraps up with updates from the Fedora Summer Coding Project, with a status update on what students and their mentors are up to. Enjoy Fedora 227 and Fedora 13!
The audio version of FWN - FAWN - is back! You can listen to existing issues[2] on the Internet Archive. If anyone is interested in helping spread the load of FAWN production, please contact us!
If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list(a)redhat.com
FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue227
2. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join
-- Announcements --
In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements[1], selected announcements to the Fedora user list[2], development announcements[3] and Events[4].
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/
3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/
4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events
--- Fedora Announcement News ---
---- Fedora 13 Released --
Our top announcement this week was yesterday's release of Fedora 13, which is looking like a very strong release indeed. Paul W. Frields announced[1]:
"I'm proud to announce the release of Fedora 13, the latest innovative Linux distribution from the Fedora Project, a global, collaborative partnership of free software community members sponsored by Red Hat.
If you can't wait to get the distribution, simply visit[2]
If you want a quick tour of highlights in this release, check out[3]
You can also find this announcement text at[4]
Or read on for loads of information about the new release and all the leading edge technologies we've packed into it. More links are available at the end of this message, too. Enjoy!
* * *
Fedora is a leading edge, free and open source operating system that continues to deliver innovative features to many users, with a new release about every six months. We bring to you the latest and greatest release of Fedora ever, Fedora 13! Join us and share the joy of Free software and the community with friends and family. We have several major new features with special focus on desktops, netbooks, virtualization and system administration.
---- What's New in Fedora 13? ----
----- For desktop users -----
A universe of new features for end users:
* Streamlined Installer. The user interface of Anaconda, the Fedora installer, has changed to handle storage devices and partitioning in an easy and streamlined manner, with helpful hints in the right places. Thanks to Chris Lumens and others on the Anaconda team, and Máirín Duffy, Fedora Design team lead, for her user interface review.
* Automatic print driver installation. We're using RPM and PackageKit for automatic installation of printer drivers, so when you plug in a printer, Fedora will automatically offer to install drivers for it if needed. Thanks to Tim Waugh and Richard Hughes.
* New desktop applications and enhancements. The Shotwell photo manager, Deja-dup backup software, Pino Identi.ca/Twitter client, and Simple Scan scanning utility are all delivered by default to provide an enhanced desktop experience out of the box. Palimpsest, the desktop utility for handling storage devices, can now manage LVM and RAID disks easily. As with the past several releases, Fedora 13 includes enhanced webcam support. Hans de Goede from Red Hat has specially focussed on better support for dual mode camera's for this release.
* NetworkManager improvements include better Mobile Broadband, Bluetooth, and new CLI abilities. NetworkManager was introduced in Fedora 7 and has become the de facto network configuration solution for distributions everywhere. NetworkManager is now a one-stop shop for all of your networking needs in Fedora, be it dial-up, broadband, wifi, or even Bluetooth. In Fedora 13 NetworkManager adds mobile broadband enhancements to show signal strength; support for old-style dial-up networking (DUN) over Bluetooth; and command line support in addition to the improved graphical user interface. Thanks to Dan Williams of Red Hat for his extensive work on these features upstream and within Fedora.
* Color management. Do you like your printouts to look the same as they do on screen - or your scanner output to look the same as what you just scanned? Color Management allows you to better set and control your colors for displays, printers, and scanners, through the gnome-color-manager package. Thanks to Richard Hughes from Red Hat for his involvement upstream and in Fedora.
* Enhanced iPod functionality. Newer Apple iPod, iPod Touch and iPhone models are supported by some of your favorite photo management software and music library applications such as Rhythmbox. The devices are automatically attached using the libimobiledevice library, so you can work with your content more easily.
* Enhanced streaming and buffering support in Totem. Totem's Movie Player and web browser plugins are now better at handling large streaming media, such as HD movies and Podcasts, thanks to the new disk-buffering support in GStreamer.
* 3D support for ATI cards (R600 and R700) via Radeon driver. In Fedora 13, 3D support for many ATI cards has moved out of experimental status and is enabled by default. 2D support for the latest generation (R800) is integrated as well in this release. Thanks to Red Hat's Dave Airlie and many others for involvement upstream and in Fedora.
* Experimental 3D graphics support extended to free Nouveau driver for NVidia cards. This release also adds experimental 3D support to a wide range of NVidia cards, adding them to the list of liberated video capabilities. Install the mesa-dri-drivers-experimental package to try out the work in progress. Thanks to Red Hat's Ben Skeggs for involvement upstream and in Fedora.
* KDE improvements. KDE in Fedora continues to provide tight integration with the latest technologies in Fedora. In this release, we have improved integration with PulseAudio via Phonon and the volume control KMix, which controls per-application volumes and moves application sounds between hardware devices, as well as with the latest PolicyKit authorization framework. We have also integrated new major versions, based on the KDE Development Platform 4, of the KOffice office suite, the K3b CD/DVD/Blu-ray burning application and, for developers, the KDevelop IDE, which provide better integration with the KDE 4 Plasma Desktop and no longer require the KDE 3 compatibility libraries. Thanks to the work of a growing community of KDE contributors in Fedora.
* DisplayPort support improvements. Fedora 12 added initial support for the new DisplayPort display connector for Intel graphics chips. Support for Nvidia and ATI systems has now been added in this release. Thanks to Red Hat's Xorg team.
* Experimental user management interface. The user account tool has been completely redesigned, and the accountsdialog and accountsservice test packages are available to make it easy to configure personal information, make a personal profile picture or icon, generate a strong passphrase, and set up login options for your Fedora system. Try out the work in progress. Thanks to Matthias Clasen from Red Hat's Desktop team and others.
----- For developers -----
For developers there are all sorts of additional goodies:
* SystemTap static probes. SystemTap now has expanded capabilities to monitor higher-level language runtimes like Java, Python, and Tcl, and also user space applications, starting with PostgreSQL. In the future, Fedora will add support for even more user space applications, greatly increasing the scope and power of monitoring for application developers. Thanks to Mark Wielaard from Red Hat.
* Easier Python debugging. We've added new support that allows developers working with mixed libraries (Python and C/C++) in Fedora to get more complete information when debugging with gdb, making Fedora an exceptional platform for powerful, rapid application development. Thanks to David Malcolm from Red Hat.
* Parallel-installable Python 3 stack. The parallel-installable Python 3 stack will help programmers write and test code for use in both Python 2.6 and Python 3 environments, so you can future-proof your applications now using Fedora. Thanks to David Malcolm from Red Hat.
* NetBeans Java EE 6 support. The NetBeans 6.8 integrated development environment is the first IDE to offer complete support for the entire Java EE 6 specification. Thanks to Victor G. Vasilyev from Sun/Oracle for his maintenance and support of NetBeans in collaboration with Fedora.
* IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition, Java IDE. Along with Eclipse and NetBeans already provided by Fedora, IDEA is a popular Java-based development environment newly introduced in this release. It comes with an intuitive GUI, integration with Ant and Maven, extensive language support, version control systems and test tools integration and compatibility with Eclipse projects. Thanks to Lubomir Rintel and Michal Ingeli, Fedora community volunteers, for packaging and integration of this feature.
----- For system administrators -----
And don't think we forgot the system administrators:
* boot.fedoraproject.org (BFO). BFO allows users to download a single, tiny image (could fit on a floppy) and install current and future versions of Fedora without having to download additional images. Thanks to Mike McGrath, Fedora Infrastructure lead.
* System Security Services Daemon (SSSD). SSSD provides expanded features for logging into managed domains, including caching for offline authentication. Now users on laptops can still login when disconnected from the company's managed network. The authentication configuration tool in Fedora has already been updated to support SSSD, and work is underway to make it even more attractive and functional. Thanks to Stephen Gallagher from Red Hat.
* Pioneering NFS features. Fedora offers the latest version 4 of the NFS protocol for better performance, and, in conjunction with recent kernel modifications, includes IPv6 support for NFS as well. Thanks to Steve Dickson from Red Hat.
* Zarafa Open Source edition Groupware. Zarafa Open Source edition is a complete, 100% free and open source groupware suite that can be used as a drop-in Microsoft Exchange replacement for Web-based mail, calendaring, collaboration, and tasks. Features include IMAP/POP and iCal/CalDAV capabilities, native mobile phone support, the ability to integrate with existing Linux mail servers, a full set of programming interfaces, and a comfortable look and feel using modern Ajax technologies. Thanks to Robert Scheck, Fedora community volunteer, for packaging and integration of this feature.
* Btrfs snapshots integration. Btrfs is capable of creating lightweight, copy-on-write filesystem snapshots that can be mounted (and booted into) selectively. Automated snapshots allow system owners to easily revert to a filesystem from the previous day, or from before a yum update using the yum-plugin-fs-snapshot plugin. Btrfs is still an experimental filesystem in this release and requires a "btrfs" installation option to enable support for it. (This option is only available for non-live images.) Upcoming releases will integrate the snapshot functionality into the desktop while working on stabilization of the filesystem in parallel. Thanks to Josef Bacik, Btrfs filesystem developer at Red Hat, for filesystem work and the new yum plugin and Chris Ball from OLPC team for leading this effort.
* LVM Snapshots merging support. Recent LVM (and device-mapper) snapshot advances included in Fedora 13 allow system owners to merge an LVM snapshot back into the origin. In the process you can rollback the origin LV to the state it was in before the system upgrade. As noted earlier, the yum-snapshot-fs-plugin can work with both Btrfs and LVM volumes exposing this functionality and making it easier to use. This feature was developed and merged upstream by Red Hat's storage team.
* Virtualization enhancements. Fedora continues its leadership in virtualization technologies with improvements to KVM such as Stable PCI Addresses and Virt Shared Network Interface technologies. Having stable PCI addresses will enable virtual guests to retain PCI addresses' space on a host machine. The shared network interface technology enables virtual machines to use the same physical network interface cards (NICs) as the host operating system. Fedora 13 also enhances performance of virtualization via VHostNet acceleration of KVM networking, Virtx2apic for enhanced guest performance on large multi-processor systems, and Virtio-Serial for simple IO between the guest and host user spaces. Thanks to the Red Hat virtualization team for their ongoing contributions.
* Dogtag Certificate System Dogtag is an enterprise-class open source Certificate Authority (CA) supporting all aspects of certificate lifecycle management including key archival, OCSP and smart card management. Brought into the fold as part of the Red Hat acquisition of Netscape technologies, this certificate server is fully free and open source and now included in Fedora. Thanks to the PKI team at Red Hat.
And that's only the beginning. A more complete list with details of all the new features on board Fedora 13 is available at[5]
OK, go get it.[6] You know you can't wait.
If you are upgrading from a previous release of Fedora, refer to[7]
In particular, Fedora has made preupgrade a more robust solution and pushed several bug fixes to older releases of Fedora to enable an easy upgrade to Fedora 13.
For an quick tour of features in Fedora 13 and pictures of many friends of Fedora, check out our "short-form" release notes[8]
Fedora 13 full release notes and guides for several languages are available at[9]
Fedora 13 common bugs are documented at[10]
---- Fedora Spins ----
Fedora spins are alternate version of Fedora tailored for various types of users via hand-picked application set or customizations. Fedora 13 includes four completely new spins in addition to the several already available, including Fedora Security Lab, Design Suite, Sugar on a Stick and Moblin spin. More information on these spins and much more is available at[11]
---- Power PC Support ----
With Apple moving to Intel based machines and Sony PlayStation dropping Linux support, Fedora PowerPC (PPC) usage has dropped considerably. In Fedora 13, PPC is now a secondary architecture and the Fedora release engineering team no longer manages PPC releases. If you would like to participate in the PPC effort or any of the secondary architecture teams, refer to[12]
---- Contributing ----
For more information including common and known bugs, tips on how to report bugs, and the official release schedule, please refer to the release notes[13]
There are many ways to contribute beyond bug reporting. You can help translate software and content, test and give feedback on software updates, write and edit documentation, design and do artwork, help with all sorts of promotional activities, and package free software for use by millions of Fedora users worldwide. To get started, visit http://join.fedoraproject.org today!
---- Fedora 14 ----
Even as we continue to provide updates with enhancements and bug fixes to improve the Fedora 13 experience, our next release, Fedora 14, is already being developed in parallel, and has been open for active development for several months already. We have an early schedule for an end of Oct 2010 release[14]
---- Contact information ----
If you are a journalist or reporter, you can find additional information at[15]
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-May/002815.html
2. http://get.fedoraproject.org?F13an
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_one_page_release_notes?F13an
4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_announcement?F13an
5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/13/FeatureList?F13an
6. http://get.fedoraproject.org?F13an
7. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading?F13an
8. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_one_page_release_notes?F13an
9. http://docs.fedoraproject.org/?F13an
10. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F13_bugs?F13an
11. http://spins.fedoraproject.org/?F13an
12. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures?F13an
13. http://docs.fedoraproject.org/?F13an
14. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/14/Schedule?F13an
15. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Press?F13an
---- Fedora Community Gaming Session 4 - Hedgewars ----
Bruno Wolff III announced[1]:
"There will be another Fedora Community Gaming session this weekend. We will be playing hedgewars which is semi-realtime game.
We will be starting at: UTC: 1700 Saturday May 29, 2010 EDT: 1pm Saturday May 29, 2010
The game seems like it will be short depending on choices made for the game. I'll be hanging around at least two hours, and can let the server run as long as people want to play.
This game comes recommended by a third party, but I'm still acting as the organizer.
We'll meet pregame in #fedora-games . If any experienced players want to recommend server settings, please speak up in the pre-game meet up. We'll use the in-game chat once we get started and I'll have Fedora Talk set up for those that want to use that in addition.
We need to match versions, so players on F11 or F12 systems will need to install scratch builds.
New players will definitely be welcome as I definitely qualify as one. So expect some teaching to be going on.
A bit more information is at[2].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-May/002814.html
2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Community_Gaming#Upcoming_game_sessions
---- ATrpms for Fedora 13; upcoming EOL for Fedora 11 ----
Axel Thimm announced[1]:
"ATrpms is officially launching Fedora 13 support[2]
o The actual download location is[3]. Mirrors are listed[4]
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 F13/i386, F13/x86_64, F12/i386, F12/x86_64, F11/i386, F11/x86_64 o RHEL6beta/i386, RHEL6beta/x86_64, RHEL5/i386, RHEL5/x86_64, RHEL4/i386, RHEL4/x86_64, RHEL3/i386, RHEL3/x86_64
F11 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 as needed)
o yum [atrpms] name=Fedora 13 - i386 - ATrpms baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/f13-i386/atrpms/stable
o smart [atrpms] name=Fedora 13 - i386 - ATrpms baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/f13-i386/atrpms/stable type=rpm-md
o apt repomd http://dl.atrpms.net f13-i386/atrpms/stable
you can provide feedback or request support on the ATrpms lists[5], or the common bug tracker[6].
Enjoy! -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-May/002816.html
2. http://ATrpms.net/dist/f13/
3. http://dl.atrpms.net/
4. http://atrpms.net/mirrors/
5. http://lists.atrpms.net/
6. http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/
---- Announcing Sugar on a Stick v.3 (Mirabelle) ----
Sebastian Dziallas announced[1]:
"Mirabelles have arrived![2]
I am proud to announce the availability of Sugar on a Stick v.3, code-named Mirabelle. More information about Sugar on a Stick, including download and installation details, are available[3].
Changes in Sugar on a Stick since the last release (v.2 Blueberry):
Sugar version 0.88. The most recent release of the Sugar Learning Platform features support for 3G connections, increased accessibility, and better integration with our Activity Portal[4] allowing students and teachers to update their sticks with additional Activities. More information about the 0.88 release of Sugar is available[5].
Customize your own remix of Sugar on a Stick. You'll notice that v.3 Mirabelle has a smaller Activity selection than its predecessors, Blueberry and Strawberry. We realized we'll never be able to create an Activity selection suitable for all deployments - instead, we've chosen to include and support a core set of basic, teacher-tested Activities in the default image, and invite deployments to use this as a base on which to build a customized Activity selection for their classrooms. Instructions on how to do this are available[6].
Sugar on a Stick is now a Fedora Spin. After two prior releases of being based on the Fedora distribution, Sugar on a Stick has recognized by the Fedora Project as an official Spin. This ties us more closely to Fedora's release cycle and gives us resources from their engineering and marketing teams, which extends the reach of Sugar on a Stick and makes the project itself more sustainable. In exchange, users of Fedora have access to an easily deployable implementation of the Sugar Platform; it's a great example of a mutually beneficial upstream - downstream relationship.
The biggest difference in v.3 of Sugar on a Stick has been in its release processes and engineering sustainability; it's now much easier for new contributors to get involved. We continue to move towards our long-term vision of bringing stability and deployability to Sugar's personalized learning environment, and invite all interested parties to join us.
If you'd like to contribute to the next version, due for release in early November, join us at our Contributors Portal[7]. All types of contributions are welcome, from the technical to the pedagogical, and we're happy to teach what we know and learn what you have to share.
Thank you especially to the Sugar on a Stick team and all the people involved for their awesome work on this release!
Sebastian Dziallas Sugar on a Stick Project Lead
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-May/002817.html
2. http://www.flickr.com/photos/enil/3892066169/
3. http://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/
4. http://activities.sugarlabs.org
5. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.88/Notes
6. http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/docs/customization-guide/
7. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick
--- Fedora Development News ---
---- CVS branches for F-11 closed ----
Dennis Gilmore announced[1]:
Since Fedora 13 was released today new CVS branches for F-11 will not be allowed. The policy[2] in effect means that F-11 is now in a maintenance only cycle, with EOL fast approaching. The EOL date was set to June 25th by FESCo[3].
Dennis
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-May/000616.html
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainer/Policy/EOL
3. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-05-25/fesco.2010-05-...
--- Fedora Events ---
Fedora events are the source of marketing, learning and meeting all the fellow community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with the following events to consider attending or volunteering near you!
---- Upcoming Events (March 2010 to May 2010) ----
* North America (NA)[1]
* Central & South America (LATAM) ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29</ref>
* Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[2]
* India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[3]
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q1_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q1_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29_2
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q1_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29_3
---- Past Events ----
Archive of Past Fedora Events[1]
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents
---- Additional information ----
* Reimbursements -- reimbursement guidelines.
* Budget -- budget for the current quarter (as distributed by FAMSCo).
* Sponsorship -- how decisions are made to subsidize travel by community members.
* Organization -- event organization, budget information, and regional responsibility.
* Event reports -- guidelines and suggestions.
* LinuxEvents -- a collection of calendars of Linux events.
-- Planet Fedora --
In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide.
Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin
1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org
--- General ---
Michael Tiemann thanked[1] Google for VP8 and WebM, the royalty free, newly opened (standard) video codec.
John Palmier continued[2] the discussion about VP8/WebM and the problem that software patents may *still* pose to supposedly patent-free codecs.
Michel Salim noticed[3] that the Free Software Foundation Europe's logo involves a cross, and compared the FSFE to certain Christian ideals.
Kyle Baker wants[4] to make Linux a better place for artists and designers. "In order to make Fedora grow in to an OS that looks as good as it functions, we need to better bridge these worlds of design and development. The open source community can not do this alone. We need help from everyone who has colored a pretty picture or dreamt of doing so."
Toshio Kuratomi discussed[5] some of the issues and bottlenecks involved with getting people involved in the Fedora infrastructure process.
Máirín Duffy announced[6] that Fedora Board elections are open up soon, though by the time you read this, it may already be too late. Included are links to information about each candidate.
Sami Wagiaalla linked[7] to an article[8] by Stormy Peters titled "12 tips to getting things done in open source". "Most people used to the proprietary software world, with no experience in open source software, are amazed that anything gets done. (And lots gets done in the open source, way more than in most proprietary software companies!) And people new to open source are usually at a loss as to where to start. Often they come with a great idea, tell a couple of people who confirm it’s a great idea, and then … well, and then they don’t know what to do and the great idea fades."
Ben Boeckel showed off[9] a ZSH with version control system (git/CVS/SVN) integration built in to the prompt, similar to Jesus Rodriguez's "git branch in shell prompt"[10].
1. http://opensource.org/node/521
2. http://www.j5live.com/2010/05/21/lets-get-this-staight-mpeg-las-and-x264-...
3. http://hircus.wordpress.com/2010/05/23/fsfe-and-the-cross-we-bear/
4. http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/kybaker/2010/05/21/creative-open-sorcery/
5. http://anonbadger.wordpress.com/2010/05/22/mailman-fedora-infrastructure-...
6. http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/05/21/its-fedora-election-season/
7. http://wagiaalla.com/2010/05/19/12-tips-to-getting-things-done-in-open-so...
8. http://stormyscorner.com/2009/02/12-tips-to-getting-things-done-in-open-s...
9. http://cledwyn.benboeckel.net/one-soap-box/2010/05/19/vcs-in-shell-prompt/
10. http://zeusville.wordpress.com/2010/05/19/git-branch-in-shell-prompt/
-- Marketing --
In this section, we cover the happenings for Fedora Marketing Project from 2010-05-19 to 2010-05-25.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing
Contributing Writer: Neville A. Cross
Mel Chua gave a call for help on screeshots for the one release notes[1] which some days later resulted in a awesome work[2]
Garland Binns has keep up with the Keyword optimizations for our web pages[3]. Paul Frields reminded us to use the short links for tracking hits to our web pages[4]
As usual, every Tuesday there is marketing meeting, and its logs are avaliable[5]
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-May/012872.html
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-May/012907.html
3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-May/012896.html
4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-May/012918.html
5. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-05-25/fedora-meeti...
-- Fedora In the News --
In this section, we cover news from the trade press and elsewhere that is re-posted to the Fedora Marketing list[1]
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/
--- Fedora 13 released with open 3D drivers and Python 3 stack (Ars Technica) ---
Kara Schlitz forwarded[1] an article from Ars Technica from 2010-05-26:
"I tested Fedora 13 myself to see how it compares to the previous version. It's a fairly solid release, certainly one of the better offerings from Fedora that I've seen in a while. The improvements relative to version 12 are somewhat modest, but compelling enough to motivate an upgrade. The general level of fit and finish has increased since the previous version. After spending several hours with Fedora 13, my conclusion is that the new hat is a good fit."
The full post is available[2].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-May/012939.html
2. http://arstechnica.com/open-source/reviews/2010/05/fedora-13-released-wit...
--- Fedora 13 Linux "Goddard" Takes Flight - (CIO Update) ---
Kara Schlitz posted links to[1] a posting originally appearing in InternetNews.com in CIO Update this week. The article quotes an interview with Fedora Project leader, Paul W. Frields, and highlights some of the significant features in the new release. The article finishes with:
"The new Fedora 13 release comes as Red Hat is ramping up its development effort for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL). While Fedora benefits from contributions made by Red Hat staffers, Frields doesn't think that the Fedora Project has been starved for resources as a result of RHEL 6 development.
"We get a lot of support from Red Hat as a sponsor and from Red Hat engineers because they really look at Fedora as being an intrinsic part of their jobs," Frields said. "Making things work well in Fedora makes things better for Red Hat in the future versions of RHEL." "
The full post is available[2]
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-May/012930.html
2. http://www.cioupdate.com/features/article.php/3884136/Fedora-13-Linux-God...
--- Rock it (The H Open - UK) ---
Kara Schlitz posted links to[1] an overview of the feature set of Fedora 13:
"With its modern open source drivers often developed mainly by Red Hat/Fedora developers, a quite recent kernel and a generally very current and in many places sophisticated set of components, Fedora 13 once again lives up to its reputation of being a cutting-edge distribution which field tests new technologies and programs before other distributions follow suit. Nevertheless, even the pre-release version of Fedora 13 has worked without major problems on several test systems in the past few weeks.
However, the tests also demonstrated Fedora's peculiarities which are already familiar from previous versions and caused by the distribution's modern software range as well as its exclusive focus on open source software. These include a rather tiresome installation of the NVIDIA drivers and the incompatibility with AMD's proprietary drivers – neither of which is Fedora's responsibility, but many a user might not see it this way. Despite such inconveniences and probably especially because of its comprehensive and current software range, Fedora has attracted a stable and apparently growing fan base and user community. "
The full article is available[2].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-May/012930.html
2. http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Rock-it-What-s-new-in-Fedora-13-100...
--- Fedora 13 – Linux for Applephobes (The Register - UK) ---
Kara Schlitz posted links to[1] an article from The Register this week that offers some comparison between Fedora 13 and recent Ubuntu releases. The article finishes with:
"Fedora has long had a reputation as the Linux you use when you grow up, when you get more sophisticated, and Fedora 13 is no different. Fedora 13 might eschew the flash of Ubuntu in favor of the more serious, but it still packs some useful, new features and applications while being every bit as easy to use.
If Ubuntu is uncomfortable because it leaves you feeling a bit like you're sharing ideals with Apple, take Fedora 13 for a spin. "
The full post is available[2]
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-May/012930.html
2. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/25/fedora_13_review/page2.html
--- Red Hat releases Fedora 13 (v3.co.uk) ---
Kara Schlitz posted links to[1] a concise review of some Fedora 13 highlights, including:
"Improvements include a smaller installation process, thanks to Fedora's Anaconda installer which has been designed to better handle storage devices and partitioning.
Fedora will automatically offer a driver installation prompt when the user plugs in a printer, for example, while improved colour management tools make it easier to print and produce high quality images.
Fedora 13 can be used in conjunction with a variety of Nvidia cards to enable 3D displays, the firm said, and new DisplayPort connectors are also supported on Nvidia and ATI cards.
The software now has extended support for stable PCI addresses and new shared network interface technology. Fedora 13 also features improvements in performance for KVM networking and large multi-processor systems."
The full post is available[2]
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-May/012930.html
2. http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2263668/fedora-announced
--- Fedora 13 brims with updates: Lucky for some (The Inquirer - UK) ---
Kara Schlitz posted links to[1] to a posting this week from the UK's The Inquirer that briefly highlights other aspects of Fedora 13:
"Developers working in mixed libraries (Python and C/C++) will have new tools it added, and will get more complex information when debugging applications, while a new Systemtap utility adds support for static probes, giving programmers better visibility over coding errors.
Python will be easier to debug, when working with gdb, and a parallel-installable Python 3 stack will let programmers write and test code for use in both Python 2.6 and Python 3 environments, it added.
Support for Netbeans Java EE6 has also been increased, and according to Fedora its NetBeans 6.8 integrated development environment is the first IDE to offer complete support for the entire Java EE 6 specification. IDEA Community Edition support is also featured.
Some experienced users, frustrated with Fedora as is, may appreciate the redesign to the user account tool and accounts dialog and accounts service test packages, which the group said would make it easier to do things like configure personal information, make a personal profile picture or icon, generate a strong passphrase, and set up login options.
Anyone attending the 2010 Red Hat Summit and JBoss World in late June in Boston can take away Fedora 13 on a free USB key."
The full post is available[2]
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-May/012930.html
2. http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1650311/fedora-brims-updates
--- Seven Reasons to Upgrade to Fedora 13 (Linux.com) ---
Kara Schlitz forwarded[1] an article by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier from Linux.com last week on the final days before Fedora 13's release:
"Fedora 13 is right around the corner. Code-named "Goddard," the Fedora 13 release sports tons of updates from Fedora 12 and some really exciting new features that will have Linux power users running for their CD burners. You'll find everything from better printer support to experimental 3D support for Nvidia cards and filesystem rollback. Ready to roll up your sleeves? Let's take a look at the best of Fedora 13. Fedora's focus is slightly different than Ubuntu, openSUSE and some other Linux distributions. The project is focused on <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Foundations> emphasizing software freedom and being first to innovate and ship new features. While Fedora isn't the most polished Linux distro you'll find, it's one of the most exciting to use. If you're on Fedora 12, we've got seven reasons you should be thinking about upgrading to Fedora 13 now or when it's officially released late this month."
The full post is available[2]
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-May/012903.html
2. http://www.linux.com/news/software/applications/310561-seven-reasons-to-u...
--- Oh My Goddard! An Early Look at Fedora 13 (Linux Magazine) ---
Kara Schlitz forwarded[1] Linux Magazine's recent preview of Fedora 13 from last week:
"Fedora 13 is on the way and while it innovates in its own right, it also borrows some major features from other distros such as Ubuntu and Mandriva. This is looking to be yet another great release from the Fedora community!
It might not have as much bling as Ubuntu, but Fedora still has a lot to offer. While the former focuses primarily on making life easier for new users (and generally does a great job at that), Fedora has been concentrating on the underlying technology and making the best possible entirely free operating system.
. . .
The effort that the community continues to put into each and every day truly makes for great, feature-full releases. To you we must say thank you - we appreciate all of your hard work! If you’re a user who’s never tried Fedora, why not give this exciting new release a try? It might not have as much bling as Ubuntu, but it’s a rock solid release based on the best free software has to offer."
The full post is available[2]
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-May/012902.html
2. http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7765/2/
-- Ambassadors --
In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project[1].
Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors
--- Fedora Ambassador Day North America held ---
Fedora Ambassador Day North America, a three-day event, was held on May 21-23 in Ames, Iowa, on the campus of Iowa State University. Among the topics discussed and decided on during the event were changes in the North American Ambassadors program including: changes included publicizing opportunites for non-ambassadors to promote Fedora at non-digital events; streamlining and creating an event owner checklist; discussion of policy of handling Ambassador funding; doing away with Regional Ambassador titles and streamlining the swag inventory system.
The following blogs, starting with Dave Nalley's comprehensive report, detail the happenings at the event:
David Nalley's blog can be found here.
Larry Cafiero's blog can be found here.
Max Spevack's blog can be found here.
--- Campus Ambassadors up and running ---
The Fedora Project's Campus Ambassadors program is up and running, and is looking for participants. If you're a high school or college student who wants to help promote Fedora on your campus, this is the place for you.
For more information, visit https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Campus_Ambassadors
--- Let us know about your Fedora 13 activities ---
Fedora 13 has now launched and Ambassadors are encouraged to hold release events. If you are planning to hold an event, let Fedora Weekly News know. Drop a line to lcafiero=at=fedoraproject-dot-org with the details and we'll get it in FWN.
-- QualityAssurance --
In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. For more information on the work of the QA team and how you can get involved, see the Joining page[2].
Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Join
--- Fedora 13 testing ---
The QA group spent the last two weeks completing Fedora 13 testing and documentation. Following the one week delay of the Fedora 13 release discussed in FWN 225[1], the team got down to testing the third release candidate[2]. We were able to produce a full installation test matrix[3] and desktop test results for GNOME and KDE[4], thanks to the contributions of many team members. With the help of these results, the group was able to confidently support the nomination of RC3 as the final Fedora 13 release compose at the 2010-05-18 go/no-go meeting[5]. Finally, the group tested an updated preupgrade package for Fedora 12[6] which was being prepared in order to be ready for the final Fedora 13 public release date, to ensure that preupgrade-based upgrades from Fedora 12 would run smoothly.
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue225#QualityAssurance
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-May/090918.html
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_13_Final_RC3_Install
4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_13_Final_RC3_Desktop
5. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-05-18/f-13-final-eng...
6. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-May/091132.html
--- Fedora 13 QA Retrospective ---
At the 2010-05-17 weekly meeting[1], James Laska reminded the group that there was a page[2] to gather thoughts about the QA process throughout the Fedora 13 cycle, including things that had gone well, things which had not gone so well, and ideas for future enhancements to the QA process.
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20100517
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_QA_Retrospective
--- Making QA sexy ---
At the same meeting, Adam Miller initiated a heroic attempt to achieve the improbable: making QA work sexy. Adam suggested providing customized swag for top QA contributors, such as a special QA group t-shirt. Others were thinking of ways to identify top contributors. James Laska suggested looking at Bodhi feedback. Will Woods thought about a way for developers to nominate testers and bug reporters who had made significant contributions.
--- Triage scripting ---
At the 2010-05-18 Bugzappers weekly meeting[1], Matej Cepl mentioned that he was rewriting his browser scripts to assist the process of triaging, and would be presenting on the topic at GUADEC on 2010-07-28[2]. He explained that "the idea is a) to propagate existence of the scripts around among developers, b) to make them compatible with multiple instances and making upstream ... I have somebody working on something similar for (Mozilla)".
1. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-05-18/fedora-meeting...
2. http://live.gnome.org/GUADEC/2010/Schedule/Main
--- AutoQA ---
James Laska proposed an email update instead of a weekly meeting for 2010-05-24. In his email[1], he noted that a new version of AutoQA was due, which would include backlinks from test results to the test logs[2], and the ability to subscribe to test results for a specific package[3]. Replying[4], Kamil Paral noted that his package sanity tests were now working "for the most basic cases" and he was now looking into sandboxing the testing via libvirt. Will Woods reported[5] that he was continuing to work on a watcher script for noticing Bodhi updates (as part of the dependency check tests), and hoped to have the post-bodhi-update hook "up and running by the end of this week".
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-May/091164.html
2. http://fedorahosted.org/autoqa/ticket/130
3. http://fedorahosted.org/autoqa/ticket/151
4. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-May/091180.html
5. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-May/091188.html
-- Translation --
This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) Project[1].
Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N
--- Problems with Guide Submissions ---
Members from various translation teams have reported[1][2] about difficulties that they were facing while submitting translations for Guides with multiple files, particularly the Installation Guide, Installation Quick Start Guide and Wireless Guide. Some translators have requested for a feature to submit multiple files in an archive format to avoid the current problems like timeouts a that they are facing on translate.fedoraproject.org.
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-May/007651.html
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-May/007654.html
--- Changes in Fedora Website Pages ---
Due to changes in the design of the docs.fedoraproject.org website, a number of navigational links were altered, which needed to be updated in the Fedora Website pages. At present, Ricky Zhou[1] from the Fedora Website team has created a script to automatically replace the older links with appropriate new ones for the language on the build pages. The URLs for the translated versions would be included in the .PO files after the release of Fedora 13.
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-May/007667.html
--- Fedora 13 Tasks for the Week ---
John Poelstra informed[1] the list about the upcoming tasks for Fedora 13. Translation of the nightly builds of the F13 Release Notes were scheduled to be completed on 0-day before the release of Fedora 13.
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-May/007663.html
--- New Members in FLP ---
Ahmed Mohamed Araby (Arabic)[1] recently joined the Fedora Localization Project.
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-May/007660.html
-- Security Advisories --
In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
--- Fedora 13 Security Advisories ---
* aria2-1.9.3-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041753...
* gnustep-base-1.18.0-9.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041716...
* krb5-1.7.1-10.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041615...
* cacti-0.8.7f-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041864...
* pidgin-2.7.0-2.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041812...
--- Fedora 12 Security Advisories ---
* aria2-1.9.3-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041754...
* gnustep-base-1.18.0-9.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041702...
* krb5-1.7.1-9.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041654...
* openssl-1.0.0-4.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041887...
* html2ps-1.0-0.4.b5.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041883...
* cacti-0.8.7f-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041880...
* pidgin-2.7.0-2.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041846...
--- Fedora 11 Security Advisories ---
* aria2-1.9.3-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041758...
* gnustep-base-1.18.0-9.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041676...
* krb5-1.6.3-31.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041645...
* cacti-0.8.7f-1.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041896...
* html2ps-1.0-0.3.b5.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041867...
* pidgin-2.7.0-2.fc11 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041803...
-- KDE --
This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora KDE Special Interests Group[1].
Contributing Writer: Ryan Rix
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE
--- KDE SC 4.5 Beta 1 coming to kde-redhat/unstable ---
Rex Dieter has begun pushing builds of KDE SC 4.5 beta 1 to the KDE-RedHat unstable repositories for Fedora 13[1]. KDE SC 4.5 brings many new changes across the entire Software Compilation. While there is currently no official changelog, the 4.5 Feature Plan[2] gives an overview of the new features that are going to hit the kde-redhat/unstable repositories. Dieter will not be pushing Fedora 12 builds until beta 2 or possibly RC1.
If you are interested in testing the KDE SC 4.5 beta, you can find instructions on how to enable the repository at the kde-redhat homepage[3]. Please note that this release may have many bugs. Please report them under the Rawhide component in bugzilla or to rdieter in #fedora-kde on irc.freenode.net.
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/2010-May/007143.html
2. http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.5_Feature_Plan
3. http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/
--- New VLC-based phonon backend available ---
Amarok developer Mark Kretschmann has been working with[1] the VideoLan team, developers of the VLC media player to work on a new Phonon backend which uses VLC. Not only does this create a cross platform Phonon backend as VLC has been successfully ported to Mac OS X and Windows, but it is far more stable than existing VLC backends.
Rex Dieter has built a version of VLC which is compatible with this backend, along with the backend itself in the KDE-RedHat unstable repository for testing on Fedora 12 and Fedora 13. If you are interested in testing this new backend, you can find instructions on how to enable the repository at the kde-redhat homepage[2]. Install the phonon-backend-vlc package and set it as the primary Backend in System Settings->Multimedia->Backend.
1. http://amarok.kde.org/blog/archives/1171-Rapid-Progress-in-KDE-Multimedia...
2. http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/
--- Special topic: Fedora Summer Coding ---
This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Summer Coding 2010[1] program.
Contributing Writer: Karsten Wade
1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010
--- Program quiet while mentors work ---
This week the mentors for Fedora Summer Coding 2010[1] are working via private discussion list. The mentors have these responsibilities:
* Advocate for their own proposal(s)
* Help reach consensus about all proposals
* Participate in ordering accepted proposals so the program can offer funding to the top selections.
With over 40 proposals submitted[2], competition is very strong with a range of proposals but only a few being accepted, and even fewer funded. Mentors are scheduled to announce the accepted and funded proposals by the end of the week.
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Summer_Coding_2010_proposals
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Cooperative Bug Isolation for Fedora 13
by Ben Liblit
The Cooperative Bug Isolation Project (CBI) is now available for Fedora
13. 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, Liferea, 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-13-i386/RPMS.tools/cbi-pa...>
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 earlier releases as well, going all the
way back to Fedora 1. When and if you decide to upgrade to Fedora 13,
we'll be ready for you. Until then, your participation remains valuable
even on older distributions.
-- Dr. Ben, the CBI guy
14 years, 1 month
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Announcing Sugar on a Stick v.3 (Mirabelle)
by Sebastian Dziallas
Mirabelles have arrived! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/enil/3892066169/)
I am proud to announce the availability of Sugar on a Stick v.3,
code-named Mirabelle. More information about Sugar on a Stick,
including download and installation details, are available at
http://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/.
Changes in Sugar on a Stick since the last release (v.2 Blueberry):
Sugar version 0.88. The most recent release of the Sugar Learning
Platform features support for 3G connections, increased accessibility,
and better integration with our Activity Portal
(http://activities.sugarlabs.org) allowing students and teachers to
update their sticks with additional Activities. More information about
the 0.88 release of Sugar is available at
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.88/Notes.
Customize your own remix of Sugar on a Stick. You'll notice that v.3
Mirabelle has a smaller Activity selection than its predecessors,
Blueberry and Strawberry. We realized we'll never be able to create an
Activity selection suitable for all deployments - instead, we've
chosen to include and support a core set of basic, teacher-tested
Activities in the default image, and invite deployments to use this as
a base on which to build a customized Activity selection for their
classrooms. Instructions on how to do this are available at
http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/docs/customization-guide/.
Sugar on a Stick is now a Fedora Spin. After two prior releases of
being based on the Fedora distribution, Sugar on a Stick has
recognized by the Fedora Project as an official Spin. This ties us
more closely to Fedora's release cycle and gives us resources from
their engineering and marketing teams, which extends the reach of
Sugar on a Stick and makes the project itself more sustainable. In
exchange, users of Fedora have access to an easily deployable
implementation of the Sugar Platform; it's a great example of a
mutually beneficial upstream - downstream relationship.
The biggest difference in v.3 of Sugar on a Stick has been in its
release processes and engineering sustainability; it's now much easier
for new contributors to get involved. We continue to move towards our
long-term vision of bringing stability and deployability to Sugar's
personalized learning environment, and invite all interested parties
to join us.
If you'd like to contribute to the next version, due for release in
early November, join us at our Contributors Portal at
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick. All types of
contributions are welcome, from the technical to the pedagogical, and
we're happy to teach what we know and learn what you have to share.
Thank you especially to the Sugar on a Stick team and all the people
involved for their awesome work on this release!
Sebastian Dziallas
Sugar on a Stick Project Lead
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ATrpms for Fedora 13; upcoming EOL for Fedora 11
by Axel Thimm
ATrpms is officially launching Fedora 13 support.
http://ATrpms.net/dist/f13/
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 F13/i386, F13/x86_64, F12/i386, F12/x86_64, F11/i386,
F11/x86_64
o RHEL6beta/i386, RHEL6beta/x86_64, RHEL5/i386, RHEL5/x86_64,
RHEL4/i386, RHEL4/x86_64, RHEL3/i386, RHEL3/x86_64
F11 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 as
needed)
o yum
[atrpms]
name=Fedora 13 - i386 - ATrpms
baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/f13-i386/atrpms/stable
o smart
[atrpms]
name=Fedora 13 - i386 - ATrpms
baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/f13-i386/atrpms/stable
type=rpm-md
o apt
repomd http://dl.atrpms.net f13-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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Announcing Fedora 13
by Paul W. Frields
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I'm proud to announce the release of Fedora 13, the latest innovative
Linux distribution from the Fedora Project, a global, collaborative
partnership of free software community members sponsored by Red Hat.
If you can't wait to get the distribution, simply visit:
http://get.fedoraproject.org?F13an
If you want a quick tour of highlights in this release, check out:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_one_page_release_notes?F13an
You can also find this announcement text at:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_announcement?F13an
Or read on for loads of information about the new release and all the
leading edge technologies we've packed into it. More links are
available at the end of this message, too. Enjoy!
* * *
Fedora is a leading edge, free and open source operating system that
continues to deliver innovative features to many users, with a new
release about every six months. We bring to you the latest and
greatest release of Fedora ever, Fedora 13! Join us and share the joy
of Free software and the community with friends and family. We have
several major new features with special focus on desktops, netbooks,
virtualization and system administration.
== What's New in Fedora 13? ==
=== For desktop users ===
A universe of new features for end users:
* Streamlined Installer. The user interface of Anaconda, the Fedora
installer, has changed to handle storage devices and partitioning in
an easy and streamlined manner, with helpful hints in the right
places. Thanks to Chris Lumens and others on the Anaconda team, and
Máirín Duffy, Fedora Design team lead, for her user interface
review.
* Automatic print driver installation. We're using RPM and PackageKit
for automatic installation of printer drivers, so when you plug in a
printer, Fedora will automatically offer to install drivers for it
if needed. Thanks to Tim Waugh and Richard Hughes.
* New desktop applications and enhancements. The Shotwell photo
manager, Deja-dup backup software, Pino Identi.ca/Twitter client,
and Simple Scan scanning utility are all delivered by default to
provide an enhanced desktop experience out of the box. Palimpsest,
the desktop utility for handling storage devices, can now manage LVM
and RAID disks easily. As with the past several releases, Fedora 13
includes enhanced webcam support. Hans de Goede from Red Hat has
specially focussed on better support for dual mode camera's for this
release.
* NetworkManager improvements include better Mobile Broadband,
Bluetooth, and new CLI abilities. NetworkManager was introduced in
Fedora 7 and has become the de facto network configuration solution
for distributions everywhere. NetworkManager is now a one-stop shop
for all of your networking needs in Fedora, be it dial-up,
broadband, wifi, or even Bluetooth. In Fedora 13 NetworkManager adds
mobile broadband enhancements to show signal strength; support for
old-style dial-up networking (DUN) over Bluetooth; and command line
support in addition to the improved graphical user interface. Thanks
to Dan Williams of Red Hat for his extensive work on these features
upstream and within Fedora.
* Color management. Do you like your printouts to look the same as
they do on screen - or your scanner output to look the same as what
you just scanned? Color Management allows you to better set and
control your colors for displays, printers, and scanners, through
the gnome-color-manager package. Thanks to Richard Hughes from Red
Hat for his involvement upstream and in Fedora.
* Enhanced iPod functionality. Newer Apple iPod, iPod Touch and iPhone
models are supported by some of your favorite photo management
software and music library applications such as Rhythmbox. The
devices are automatically attached using the libimobiledevice
library, so you can work with your content more easily.
* Enhanced streaming and buffering support in Totem. Totem's Movie
Player and web browser plugins are now better at handling large
streaming media, such as HD movies and Podcasts, thanks to the new
disk-buffering support in GStreamer.
* 3D support for ATI cards (R600 and R700) via Radeon driver. In
Fedora 13, 3D support for many ATI cards has moved out of
experimental status and is enabled by default. 2D support for the
latest generation (R800) is integrated as well in this
release. Thanks to Red Hat's Dave Airlie and many others for
involvement upstream and in Fedora.
* Experimental 3D graphics support extended to free Nouveau driver for
NVidia cards. This release also adds experimental 3D support to a
wide range of NVidia cards, adding them to the list of liberated
video capabilities. Install the mesa-dri-drivers-experimental
package to try out the work in progress. Thanks to Red Hat's Ben
Skeggs for involvement upstream and in Fedora.
* KDE improvements. KDE in Fedora continues to provide tight
integration with the latest technologies in Fedora. In this release,
we have improved integration with PulseAudio via Phonon and the
volume control KMix, which controls per-application volumes and
moves application sounds between hardware devices, as well as with
the latest PolicyKit authorization framework. We have also
integrated new major versions, based on the KDE Development Platform
4, of the KOffice office suite, the K3b CD/DVD/Blu-ray burning
application and, for developers, the KDevelop IDE, which provide
better integration with the KDE 4 Plasma Desktop and no longer
require the KDE 3 compatibility libraries. Thanks to the work of a
growing community of KDE contributors in Fedora.
* DisplayPort support improvements. Fedora 12 added initial support
for the new DisplayPort display connector for Intel graphics
chips. Support for Nvidia and ATI systems has now been added in this
release. Thanks to Red Hat's Xorg team.
* Experimental user management interface. The user account tool has
been completely redesigned, and the accountsdialog and
accountsservice test packages are available to make it easy to
configure personal information, make a personal profile picture or
icon, generate a strong passphrase, and set up login options for
your Fedora system. Try out the work in progress. Thanks to Matthias
Clasen from Red Hat's Desktop team and others.
=== For developers ===
For developers there are all sorts of additional goodies:
* SystemTap static probes. SystemTap now has expanded capabilities to
monitor higher-level language runtimes like Java, Python, and Tcl,
and also user space applications, starting with PostgreSQL. In the
future, Fedora will add support for even more user space
applications, greatly increasing the scope and power of monitoring
for application developers. Thanks to Mark Wielaard from Red Hat.
* Easier Python debugging. We've added new support that allows
developers working with mixed libraries (Python and C/C++) in Fedora
to get more complete information when debugging with gdb, making
Fedora an exceptional platform for powerful, rapid application
development. Thanks to David Malcolm from Red Hat.
* Parallel-installable Python 3 stack. The parallel-installable Python
3 stack will help programmers write and test code for use in both
Python 2.6 and Python 3 environments, so you can future-proof your
applications now using Fedora. Thanks to David Malcolm from Red Hat.
* NetBeans Java EE 6 support. The NetBeans 6.8 integrated development
environment is the first IDE to offer complete support for the
entire Java EE 6 specification. Thanks to Victor G. Vasilyev from
Sun/Oracle for his maintenance and support of NetBeans in
collaboration with Fedora.
* IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition, Java IDE. Along with Eclipse and
NetBeans already provided by Fedora, IDEA is a popular Java-based
development environment newly introduced in this release. It comes
with an intuitive GUI, integration with Ant and Maven, extensive
language support, version control systems and test tools integration
and compatibility with Eclipse projects. Thanks to Lubomir Rintel
and Michal Ingeli, Fedora community volunteers, for packaging and
integration of this feature.
=== For system administrators ===
And don't think we forgot the system administrators:
* boot.fedoraproject.org (BFO). BFO allows users to download a single,
tiny image (could fit on a floppy) and install current and future
versions of Fedora without having to download additional
images. Thanks to Mike McGrath, Fedora Infrastructure lead.
* System Security Services Daemon (SSSD). SSSD provides expanded
features for logging into managed domains, including caching for
offline authentication. Now users on laptops can still login when
disconnected from the company's managed network. The authentication
configuration tool in Fedora has already been updated to support
SSSD, and work is underway to make it even more attractive and
functional. Thanks to Stephen Gallagher from Red Hat.
* Pioneering NFS features. Fedora offers the latest version 4 of the
NFS protocol for better performance, and, in conjunction with recent
kernel modifications, includes IPv6 support for NFS as well. Thanks
to Steve Dickson from Red Hat.
* Zarafa Open Source edition Groupware. Zarafa Open Source edition is
a complete, 100% free and open source groupware suite that can be
used as a drop-in Microsoft Exchange replacement for Web-based mail,
calendaring, collaboration, and tasks. Features include IMAP/POP and
iCal/CalDAV capabilities, native mobile phone support, the ability
to integrate with existing Linux mail servers, a full set of
programming interfaces, and a comfortable look and feel using modern
Ajax technologies. Thanks to Robert Scheck, Fedora community
volunteer, for packaging and integration of this feature.
* Btrfs snapshots integration. Btrfs is capable of creating
lightweight, copy-on-write filesystem snapshots that can be mounted
(and booted into) selectively. Automated snapshots allow system
owners to easily revert to a filesystem from the previous day, or
from before a yum update using the yum-plugin-fs-snapshot
plugin. Btrfs is still an experimental filesystem in this release
and requires a "btrfs" installation option to enable support for
it. (This option is only available for non-live images.) Upcoming
releases will integrate the snapshot functionality into the desktop
while working on stabilization of the filesystem in parallel. Thanks
to Josef Bacik, Btrfs filesystem developer at Red Hat, for
filesystem work and the new yum plugin and Chris Ball from OLPC team
for leading this effort.
* LVM Snapshots merging support. Recent LVM (and device-mapper)
snapshot advances included in Fedora 13 allow system owners to merge
an LVM snapshot back into the origin. In the process you can
rollback the origin LV to the state it was in before the system
upgrade. As noted earlier, the yum-snapshot-fs-plugin can work with
both Btrfs and LVM volumes exposing this functionality and making it
easier to use. This feature was developed and merged upstream by Red
Hat's storage team.
* Virtualization enhancements. Fedora continues its leadership in
virtualization technologies with improvements to KVM such as Stable
PCI Addresses and Virt Shared Network Interface technologies. Having
stable PCI addresses will enable virtual guests to retain PCI
addresses' space on a host machine. The shared network interface
technology enables virtual machines to use the same physical network
interface cards (NICs) as the host operating system. Fedora 13 also
enhances performance of virtualization via VHostNet acceleration of
KVM networking, Virtx2apic for enhanced guest performance on large
multi-processor systems, and Virtio-Serial for simple IO between the
guest and host user spaces. Thanks to the Red Hat virtualization
team for their ongoing contributions.
* Dogtag Certificate System Dogtag is an enterprise-class open source
Certificate Authority (CA) supporting all aspects of certificate
lifecycle management including key archival, OCSP and smart card
management. Brought into the fold as part of the Red Hat acquisition
of Netscape technologies, this certificate server is fully free and
open source and now included in Fedora. Thanks to the PKI team at
Red Hat.
And that's only the beginning. A more complete list with details of
all the new features on board Fedora 13 is available at:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/13/FeatureList?F13an
OK, go get it. You know you can't wait.
http://get.fedoraproject.org?F13an
If you are upgrading from a previous release of Fedora, refer to
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading?F13an
In particular, Fedora has made preupgrade a more robust solution and
pushed several bug fixes to older releases of Fedora to enable an easy
upgrade to Fedora 13.
For an quick tour of features in Fedora 13 and pictures of many
friends of Fedora, check out our "short-form" release notes:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_one_page_release_notes?F13an
Fedora 13 full release notes and guides for several languages are
available at:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/?F13an
Fedora 13 common bugs are documented at:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F13_bugs?F13an
=== Fedora Spins ===
Fedora spins are alternate version of Fedora tailored for various
types of users via hand-picked application set or
customizations. Fedora 13 includes four completely new spins in
addition to the several already available, including Fedora Security
Lab, Design Suite, Sugar on a Stick and Moblin spin. More information
on these spins and much more is available at
http://spins.fedoraproject.org/?F13an
== Power PC Support ==
With Apple moving to Intel based machines and Sony PlayStation
dropping Linux support, Fedora PowerPC (PPC) usage has dropped
considerably. In Fedora 13, PPC is now a secondary architecture and
the Fedora release engineering team no longer manages PPC releases. If
you would like to participate in the PPC effort or any of the
secondary architecture teams, refer to:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures?F13an
== Contributing ==
For more information including common and known bugs, tips on how to
report bugs, and the official release schedule, please refer to the
release notes:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/?F13an
There are many ways to contribute beyond bug reporting. You can help
translate software and content, test and give feedback on software
updates, write and edit documentation, design and do artwork, help
with all sorts of promotional activities, and package free software
for use by millions of Fedora users worldwide. To get started, visit
http://join.fedoraproject.org today!
== Fedora 14 ==
Even as we continue to provide updates with enhancements and bug fixes
to improve the Fedora 13 experience, our next release, Fedora 14, is
already being developed in parallel, and has been open for active
development for several months already. We have an early schedule for
an end of Oct 2010 release:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/14/Schedule?F13an
== Contact information ==
If you are a journalist or reporter, you can find additional
information at:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Press?F13an
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Fedora Community Gaming Session 4 - Hedgewars
by Bruno Wolff III
There will be another Fedora Community Gaming session this weekend.
We will be playing hedgewars which is semi-realtime game.
We will be starting at:
UTC: 1700 Saturday May 29, 2010
EDT: 1pm Saturday May 29, 2010
The game seems like it will be short depending on choices made for the game.
I'll be hanging around at least two hours, and can let the server run as
long as people want to play.
This game comes recommended by a third party, but I'm still acting as
the organizer.
We'll meet pregame in #fedora-games . If any experienced players want to
recommend server settings, please speak up in the pre-game meet up.
We'll use the in-game chat once we get started and I'll have Fedora Talk set
up for those that want to use that in addition.
We need to match versions, so players on F11 or F12 systems will need to
install scratch builds.
New players will definitely be welcome as I definitely qualify as one. So
expect some teaching to be going on.
A bit more information is at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Community_Gaming#Upcoming_game_sessions
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Fedora Weekly News 226
by Pascal Calarco
* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 226
o 1.1 Announcements
+ 1.1.1 Fedora Announcement News
+ 1.1.2 Community Gaming Session 3 - armacycles-ad
# 1.1.2.1 Board appointment
# 1.1.2.2 FESCo and Fedora Project Board Elections - Town Hall Schedule
+ 1.1.3 Fedora Development News
# 1.1.3.1 2010-05-18 - F-13-Final go / no go meeting recap
* 1.1.3.1.1 Meeting summary
* 1.1.3.1.2 Action Items
* 1.1.3.1.3 Action Items, by person
* 1.1.3.1.4 People Present (lines said)
+ 1.1.4 Fedora Events
# 1.1.4.1 Upcoming Events (March 2010 to May 2010)
# 1.1.4.2 Past Events
# 1.1.4.3 Additional information
o 1.2 Planet Fedora
+ 1.2.1 General
o 1.3 Fedora In the News
+ 1.3.1 The five best things coming in Fedora 13 Linux (Computerworld)
+ 1.3.2 Fedora 13 - Ready to roll (My Broadband - South Africa)
+ 1.3.3 QA: Fedora Project Lead Paul Frields on the "Grown Up" Distro
(Linux.com)
+ 1.3.4 Clearing the Air About MeeGo (ITWorld)
+ 1.3.5 Fedora 13 gives off plain vibe, but offers power and stability
under the hood (ITWorld)
o 1.4 Translation
+ 1.4.1 Fedora 13 Release Delayed
+ 1.4.2 Upcoming Fedora 13 Tasks
+ 1.4.3 Documentation Page Translation
+ 1.4.4 New Documents Available for Translation
+ 1.4.5 Publican 1.6.3 Release
o 1.5 Artwork
+ 1.5.1 Fedora 14 Supplemental Wallpapers
+ 1.5.2 The Archive
+ 1.5.3 Fedora 13 Release Posters
o 1.6 Security Advisories
+ 1.6.1 Fedora 13 Security Advisories
+ 1.6.2 Fedora 12 Security Advisories
+ 1.6.3 Fedora 11 Security Advisories
- Fedora Weekly News Issue 226 -
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 226[1] for the week ending May 19,
2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue.
This week's issue kicks off with announcements from the Fedora Project,
including details on the third Community Gaming Session, news of Jon
Stanley joining the Fedora Project Board, and a series of upcoming Town
Hall meetings for Fedora elections. In news from the Fedora Planet, a
trip report from the Linux Audio Conference 2010 in Utrecht, news from
Greg DeKoenigsberg's exciting new opportunities, and a continuation of
discussion of target audiences for Fedora. We have lots to offer in
Fedora In the News, including several more Fedora 13 reviews and
experience pieces in the trade press and an exclusive interview with
Paul W. Frields. Translation gets us up to date on Fedora 13 activities
including a review of upcoming tasks, documentation translation and a
new version of Publican. From the Design Team, updates on Fedora 14
supplemental wallpapers, discussion of Fedora 13 release party posters,
and discussion of an archive for the Fedora Project media. This week's
issue is complete with Security Advisories, overviewing the
security-related software packages released during the past week.
Unfortunately, as Kamisamanou Burgess is busy with study, the audio
version of FWN - FAWN - is on hold until early May. You can still listen
to old issues[2] on the Internet Archive, though. If anyone is
interested in helping spread the load of FAWN production, please contact us!
If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see
our 'join' page[3]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list(a)redhat.com
FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue226
2. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22FWN%22
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join
-- Announcements --
In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project,
including general announcements[1], selected announcements to the Fedora
user list[2], development announcements[3] and Events[4].
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/
3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/
4. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events
--- Fedora Announcement News ---
---- Community Gaming Session 3 - armacycles-ad ----
Bruno Wolff III announced[1]:
"There will be another Fedora Community Gaming session this weekend. We
will be playing armacyles-ad which is a light cycle game.
We will be starting at: UTC: 1700 Saturday May 22, 2010 EDT: 1pm
Saturday May 22, 2010
The game has short rounds, so drop ins and outs should be easy to
accomodate. I'll be hanging around at least two hours, and can let the
server run as long as people want to play.
This game comes recommended by a third party, but I'm still acting as
the organizer.
We'll meet pregame in #fedora-games . If any experienced players want to
recommend server settings, please speak up in the pregame meet up. We'll
also use in-game chat and I'll have Fedora Talk set up as well.
A bit more information is at [2]."
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-May/002811.html
2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Community_Gaming#Upcoming_game_sessions
--- Board appointment ---
Paul W. Frields announced[1] a new appointment to the Fedora ProjectBoard:
"I'm pleased to announce that Jon Stanley will join the Fedora Project
Board. He'll be seated along with the other newly elected and appointed
Board members at the first meeting in June, which is an IRC public
meeting. Jon brings several years of experience with the Fedora Project
and also with FESCo, and is presently involved most closely with our
Infrastructure team.
As part of the normal Board succession process[2], a Board appointment
is made before elections for the elected Board seats take place.
Elections will begin on 2010-05-20 UTC 0001, as shown on the Fedora
wiki's Elections page[3]. All community members are encouraged to cast
votes for the Board and for FESCo up until the elections close on
2010-05-26 UTC 2359. After the end of elections, a final appointment
will be made to the remaining Board seat."
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-May/002803.html
2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board_succession_planning
3. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections
--- FESCo and Fedora Project Board Elections - Town Hall Schedule ---
Robyn Bergeron announced[1] upcoming town hall meetings regarding
upcoming Fedora Project elections:
"As many of you know, the FESCo and Board elections are right around the
corner.
In each election cycle, a series of town hall meetings is conducted to
give the community an opportunity to ask the candidates questions - and
hear their answers - on IRC. The town halls for each election are held
twice, to allow for participation by community members in varying time
zones.
The town hall schedule is as follows:
Friday, May 14, 2010 - FESCo town hall - 16:00 UTC (12:00pm US Eastern)
Monday, May 17, 2010 - Fedora Project Board town hall - 00:00 UTC
(8:00pm US Eastern, -SUNDAY-, May 16)
Monday, May 17, 2010 - Fedora Project Board town hall - 17:00 UTC
(1:00pm US Eastern)
Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - FESCo town hall - 02:00 UTC (10:00pm US
Eastern, -TUESDAY-, May 18)
The town hall schedule, as well as important information about how you
can participate in the town halls via IRC, can be seen on the wiki at[2].
For more details on the elections and candidates, please visit[3].
I'm hoping for an excellent community turnout for these town halls - I
encourage everyone to join in and participate.
-Robyn"
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-May/002809.html
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections#IRC_Town_Halls
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections
--- Fedora Development News ---
---- 2010-05-18 - F-13-Final go / no go meeting recap ----
James Laska sent log summaries[1] of the Fedora 13 final go/no go meeting:
Meeting started by jlaska at 23:58:40 UTC. The full logs are available[2]
---- Meeting summary ----
* Waiting for critical mass (jlaska, 23:59:07)
* Why are we here? (jlaska, 00:03:40)
* The purpose is to decide whether the Final release criteria have
been met (jlaska, 00:04:10)
* LINK:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_Final_Release_Criteria
(jlaska, 00:04:16)
* Go or No Go? (jlaska, 00:04:42)
* LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=587627 (adamw,
00:08:41)
* LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=592345 (jlaska,
00:09:44)
* 1 remaining preupgrade bug -- fix needed by F-13 GA (jlaska,
00:13:21)
* AGREED: F-12 preupgrade packages don't impact decision to go / no go
(jlaska, 00:19:17)
* Validation test summary -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-May/091001.html
(jlaska, 00:20:34)
* AGREED: F-13-RC3 meets Final release criteria - Go for launch!
(jlaska, 00:24:58)
* What's next? (jlaska, 00:25:17)
* LINK:
http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2010/05/fedora-13-delay-fixes-linux-...
< -- who is this guy? (ender2070, 00:27:37)
* ACTION: jlaska to sync up with hughsi to see if he needs more
testing on F-12 preupgrade (jlaska, 00:29:40)
Meeting ended at 00:30:47 UTC.
---- Action Items ----
* jlaska to sync up with hughsi to see if he needs more testing on F-12
preupgrade
---- Action Items, by person ----
* jlaska
* jlaska to sync up with hughsi to see if he needs more testing on
F-12 preupgrade
* **UNASSIGNED**
* (none)
---- People Present (lines said) ----
* jlaska (69)
* adamw (27)
* Oxf13 (17)
* ender2070 (5)
* fenris02 (5)
* MiKylie (5)
* zodbot (3)
* stickster (3)
* gholms (2)
* poelcat (2)
* nirik (1)
* hno (1)
* McGiwer (1)
1.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-May/000615.html
2.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-05-18/f-13-final-eng...
--- Fedora Events ---
Fedora events are the source of marketing, learning and meeting all the
fellow community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with the
following events to consider attending or volunteering near you!
---- Upcoming Events (March 2010 to May 2010) ----
* North America (NA)[1]
* Central & South America (LATAM) [2]
* Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3]
* India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4]
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q1_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29
2. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29
3.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q1_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29_2
4.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q1_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29_3
---- Past Events ----
Archive of Past Fedora Events[1]
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents
---- Additional information ----
* Reimbursements -- reimbursement guidelines.
* Budget -- budget for the current quarter (as distributed by FAMSCo).
* Sponsorship -- how decisions are made to subsidize travel by community
members.
* Organization -- event organization, budget information, and regional
responsibility.
* Event reports -- guidelines and suggestions.
* LinuxEvents -- a collection of calendars of Linux events.
-- Planet Fedora --
In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an
aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. This edition of
the Planet Fedora covers the past two weeks.
Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin
1. http://planet.fedoraproject.org
--- General ---
Venkatesh Hariharan wrote[1] an article entitled "Open Source offers
more to CIOs" for IT Next magazine in India's "Moneywise" column.
Lennart Poettering attended[2] the Linux Audio Conference 2010 in
Utrecht and came away with some interesting ideas about how to make the
two work well together. "even many pro audio folks are not sure what
Jack does that PulseAudio doesn't do and what PulseAudio does that Jack
doesn't do; why they are not competing, why you cannot replace one by
the other, and why merging them (at least in the short term) might not
make immediate sense. In other words, why millions of phones on this
world run PulseAudio and not Jack, and why a music studio running
PulseAudio is crack."
Lennart also mentioned[3] that systemd now has its own website, mailing
list, Bugzilla component and new git repositories.
David Lutterkort offered[4] a top for using augeas to add users to a group.
Richard W.M. Jones shared a number of tips, including how to collect and
use core dumps[5], using guestfish to extract ISO images without needing
to be root[6] and using git's cherry-pick carefully apply individual
fixes or patches to a codebase[7].
Daniel Berrange wrote[8] a[9] series[10] of[11] articles on provisioning
KVM virtual machines on iSCSI, both using QNAP and virt-manager and "the
hard way" (without).
The Red Hat Press Office posted[12] a piece giving an overview of some
of the major changes being introduced to the kernel as part of RHEL 6.
Lubomir Rintel added[13] a request for people to help test the beta.
Greg DeKoenigsberg has decided[14] to leave Red Hat to join the
Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME) as
their CTO. Greg added "I’ll still be around Fedora, don’t worry about
that; you can't get rid of me that easily."
Seth Vidal believes[15] that he is one of the dissidents mentioned in
Greg's outgoing blog post, and wrote about some of the ways in which
these "dissidents" can be used to help or hinder Fedora.
Stephen Smoogen continued[16] the discussion of "target audiences" in
Fedora.
Jakub Hrozek explained[17] how to use MALLOC_PERTURB_ to help find
memory-management bugs.
Dan Williams wrote[18] a D-Bus-for-beginners style writeup. "Every so
often I get questions about D-Bus and I end up giving a mini-lesson on
what D-Bus is and how it’s used. It took me a while to wrap my head
around D-Bus long ago so I don’t expect everyone to pick up D-Bus like
Yo-Yo Ma sight-reading. So this is D-Bus, simplified."
Karel Zak described[19] how Linux and its partitioning and file system
creation tools handle hard disks 4096-byte sectors.
Karsten Wade applauded[20] a post to the Fedora developer list about how
to send sensible e-mails.
1.
http://osindia.blogspot.com/2010/05/open-source-offers-more-to-cios-open....
2. http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/when-pa-and-when-not.html
3. http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd-website.html
4. http://watzmann.net/blog/2010/05/augeas-append-users.html
5. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/quick-tip-learn-to-love-core-dumps/
6.
http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/tip-ways-to-extract-an-iso-without-n...
7. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/git-cherry-pick-wins/
8.
http://berrange.com/posts/2010/05/04/provisioning-kvm-virtual-machines-on...
9.
http://berrange.com/posts/2010/05/04/provisioning-kvm-virtual-machines-on...
10.
http://berrange.com/posts/2010/05/05/provisioning-kvm-virtual-machines-on...
11.
http://berrange.com/posts/2010/05/05/provisioning-kvm-virtual-machines-on...
12.
http://press.redhat.com/2010/05/05/red-hat-enterprise-linux-6-kernel-an-o...
13. http://v3.sk/~lkundrak/blog/entries/rhel6-beta.html
14. http://gregdekspeaks.wordpress.com/2010/05/06/hold-on-loosely/
15. http://skvidal.wordpress.com/2010/05/07/dissidents/
16. http://smoogespace.blogspot.com/2010/05/target-audiences.html
17. http://jhrozek.livejournal.com/1755.html
18. http://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/2010/05/07/eat-burgers-on-the-short-bus/
19. http://karelzak.blogspot.com/2010/05/4096-byte-sector-hard-drives.html
20.
http://iquaid.org/2010/05/13/applause-for-how-to-ask-foss-developers-for-...
-- Fedora In the News --
In this section, we cover news from the trade press and elsewhere that
is re-posted to the Fedora Marketing list[1]
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
--- The five best things coming in Fedora 13 Linux (Computerworld) ---
Kara Schlitz forwarded[2] an article from ComputerWorld from 2010-05-18:
"When Fedora 13, Goddard, is released on May 25, it's not going to be
your usual Fedora Linux release. In the past, Fedora has been seen as a
great Linux distribution for Linux experts. Paul W. Frields, the Fedora
Project leader, told me though that this release is more
new-user-friendly and that is no longer just for experienced Linux
users. Based on my early look at this Red Hat community Linux
distribution, I agree."
The full post is available[3].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-May/012873.html
3.
http://blogs.computerworld.com/16133/the_five_best_things_coming_in_fedor...
--- Fedora 13 - Ready to roll (My Broadband - South Africa) ---
Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] an article last week from a South African blog:
"For desktop users there are a number of key additions in Fedora 13.
Chief among these are the automatic print driver installations. Although
there have long been print drivers available for Linux for a wide range
of hardware, it has typically been difficult for inexperienced users to
install these. Fedora 13 will now automatically offer to install
appropriate drivers when a new printer is plugged in.
Fedora 13 also includes a number of desktop enhancements, including the
Shotwell photo manager, Deja-dup backup software, the Pino
Twitter/Identi.ca client and the Simple Scan scanning application."
The full post is available[2]
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-May/012855.html
2. http://mybroadband.co.za/news/software/12379-Fedora---Ready-roll.html
--- QA: Fedora Project Lead Paul Frields on the "Grown Up" Distro
(Linux.com) ---
Jonathan Nalley forwarded[1] an interview with Fedora Project leader
Paul W. Frields on Fedora 13:
"Henry Kingman today shares with the Linux.com community his exclusive
interview with Fedora Project Leader Paul Frields. Frields goes into
detail on the upcoming Fedora 13 release, his decision to transition out
of the Project Leader position and how many contributors to Fedora are
being paid by Red Hat, among many other topics. Grab a cup of coffee for
this in-depth discussion."
The full article is available[2].
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-May/012871.html
2.
http://www.linux.com/news/enterprise/biz-enterprise/308759-qa-fedora-proj...
--- Clearing the Air About MeeGo (ITWorld) ---
Jonathan Nalley forwarded[1] an article on the Fedora Project's
relationship to MeeGo:
"And there's more evidence that the situation is not as dire as I
painted earlier this week. Fedora Community Manager Paul Frields got
back to me this morning with a very detailed status update on how MeeGo
fits within the Fedora Project. I'll just get out of the way and let you
read the bulk of his reply:
The Fedora Project, and particularly our special interest group for
small devices, the Fedora Mini SIG, has substantial interest in MeeGo as
a next-generation platform. The Mini SIG is following the MeeGo work to
see how we can integrate its revolutionary interface and other
development to provide an enhanced user experience for small devices in
Fedora. This is made easier by the high degree of remixability and
upstream compatibility that Fedora maintains..."
The full post is available[2]
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-May/012830.html
2. http://www.itworld.com/open-source/107799/clearing-air-about-meego
--- Fedora 13 gives off plain vibe, but offers power and stability under
the hood (ITWorld) ---
Ryan Rix forwarded[1] on experience using Fedora 13 since initial release:
"I have been using Fedora 13 since the initial alpha release, and have
been very impressed with the stability of this platform to date. And I
don't have to make allowances for this being a pre-release product: I
can honestly say that I have never seen a more stable alpha-to-beta
series of releases in a Linux distro. I have seen just two -- count 'em
-- two bugs, both minor, and both gone now, so I won't even detail them.
That seems a very small point, but to me that points to a level of
craftsmanship that shows up in other aspects of this distribution."
The full post is available[2]
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-May/012829.html
2.
http://www.itworld.com/open-source/107242/fedora-13-gives-plain-vibe-offe...
-- Translation --
This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n)
Project[1].
Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N
--- Fedora 13 Release Delayed ---
As a result of the 1 week delay in the Fedora 13 Release[1], the
documentation and website related tasks have also been delayed
accordingly[2]. Hence, an additional week is now available for the
translation tasks related to these projects.
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-May/002806.html
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-May/007633.html
--- Upcoming Fedora 13 Tasks ---
John Poelstra informed[1] the list about the upcoming tasks for Fedora
13. At present, translation of the nightly builds of the F13 Release
Notes .POT files and GA Announcement are on schedule. However, Noriko
Mizumoto pointed out[2] that the schedule may need to be revised due to
the slippage in the Fedora 13 Release date.
-- Documentation Page Translation
The Fedora Documentation website, docs.fedoraproject.org can now be
translated[3]. The welcome page and other components are available under
the docsite-publican module on translate.fedoraproject.org.
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-May/007646.html
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-May/007647.html
3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-May/007626.html
--- New Documents Available for Translation ---
SELinux FAQ[1], Managing Confined Services Guide[2], and Wireless
Guide[3] are now available for translation via translate.fedoraproject.org.
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-May/007629.html
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-May/007631.html
3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-May/007630.html
--- Publican 1.6.3 Release ---
Ruediger Landmann announced[1] the release of Publican 1.6.3. This is a
bug fix release and addresses several issues related to tags and string
division. However, considering the upcoming release of Fedora 13, the
Guide owners have been advised not to refresh the .POT files of their
books with publican 1.6.3, as this would break the books.
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/trans/2010-May/007639.html
-- Artwork --
In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1].
Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei
1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork
--- Fedora 14 Supplemental Wallpapers ---
With Fedora 13 almost out of the door, is the time to start planning the
next release, so Máirín Duffy proposed[1] for this release cycle to take
care about something that missed in Fedora 13 "We missed included
supplemental wallpapers again in F13. I feel really badly about this. I
think if we start looking for some early on as we also think about the
default theme we'll be better on track to make sure we make it happen
for F14" and Martin Sourada went further[2] with the planning "I've
added key milestones [1] for it (without exact dates yet) and added a
respective section to the main F14 Artwork wiki page and created a
sub-page for the submissions."
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-May/002480.html
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-May/002482.html
--- The Archive ---
Henrik Heigl proposed[1] the Archive project "for some time we all
working on tasks where we reuse templates, pictures, Textual templates,
etc. for all kind of work. But there is no place where we keep that
collected work, that snippets of small peaces that could be reused in
other ways.[...] The idea is to collect these pieces out there in one
place to reuse them for other work and not to invent the wheel new every
time ;-)"
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-May/002483.html
--- Fedora 13 Release Posters ---
Máirín Duffy reminded[1] about one of the last remaining tasks for
Fedora 13 "Is anyone interested in designing a release party poster for
F13?" and provided samples from past releases and María Leandro started
playing with mockups[2]. Máirín proposed[3] one derivative version as final.
1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-May/002495.html
2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-May/002501.html
3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2010-May/002502.html
-- Security Advisories --
In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
--- Fedora 13 Security Advisories ---
* dvipng-1.13-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041592...
* postgresql-8.4.4-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041559...
* texlive-2007-51.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041556...
* quake3-1.36-7.svn1783.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041470...
* qt-4.6.2-17.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041436...
* php-ZendFramework-1.10.4-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041375...
* mysql-5.1.46-1.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041322...
* xar-1.5.2-6.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041298...
* lighttpd-1.4.26-2.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041296...
* boa-0.94.14-0.15.rc21.fc13 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041285...
--- Fedora 12 Security Advisories ---
* kernel-2.6.32.12-115.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041594...
* dvipng-1.13-1.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041581...
* postgresql-8.4.4-1.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041579...
* texlive-2007-48.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041567...
* quake3-1.36-7.svn1783.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041396...
* qt-4.6.2-17.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041383...
* mysql-5.1.46-1.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041367...
* php-ZendFramework-1.10.4-1.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041344...
* mod_auth_shadow-2.2-8.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041340...
* lighttpd-1.4.26-2.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041307...
* xar-1.5.2-6.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041276...
* boa-0.94.14-0.15.rc21.fc12 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041271...
--- Fedora 11 Security Advisories ---
* postgresql-8.3.11-1.fc11 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041591...
* dvipng-1.13-1.fc11 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041587...
* texlive-2007-47.fc11 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041573...
* qt-4.6.2-17.fc11 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041432...
* php-ZendFramework-1.10.4-1.fc11 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041342...
* mysql-5.1.46-1.fc11 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041334...
* mod_auth_shadow-2.2-8.fc11 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041326...
* xar-1.5.2-6.fc11 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041305...
* boa-0.94.14-0.15.rc21.fc11 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041274...
* lighttpd-1.4.26-2.fc11 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041264...
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