Users at LinuxWorld talk up security
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
"The company uses Fedora servers, the free, open source version of Red
Hat Linux, to run its production environment and Web presence. As a
precaution, Swanson uses the open source Mondo Archive tool to take
snapshots of its production server images, and keeps backup
configurations that can be brought online quickly in case of failures or
system problems."
"SE Linux has been terrific," Swanson said. In addition to vetting code
before deployment, SE Linux provides another level of assurance that the
code won't be exploited. "We deny everything and allow just what we
want" into and out of the servers via SE Linux policies, he said.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/041006-linuxworld.html?page=2
18 years
WOM : remastering and restructuring
by Chitlesh GOORAH
Hello there,
I wish to propose another face to Word Of Mouth Project (WOM). NOT TO
FLAME A WAR!
at the present:
The Fedora Word Of Mouth Project is a project to give Ambassadors
support to help with day to day word of mouth promotion of Fedora,
such as introducing the curious, and answering questions and
explaining the truth behind myths. This gives Ambassadors more support
with non-events, to help Ambassadors Project concentrate an events and
meetings.
What I wish to stress on how announcement is to be done to the Ambassadors.
What do we have here and right now ?
- Red Hat Magazine
- Ambassador Mailing List
- announcement list
- Fedora Weekly Report on Fedoraproject.org
- FedoraNews.org/cms
- fedoraproject.org/people
What do the members asking for ?
- a seperate mailing list to make announcement
- more contributors
- right information at the right time
The creation of a seperate mailing list to make annoucement for
ambassadors seems NOT to be a proper idea. It would be nice that
Members of the WOM contribute for
- announcement list
- Fedora Weekly Report on Fedoraproject.org
- FedoraNews.org/cms
Advantages:
- do not reinventing the wheel since the mechanism is there
- enhancing those three mechanisms
- more contributors have more time to provide more announcement
- help Thomas Chung as well.
- many (non-events) ambassadors don't know where to contribute, they
will have the chance then
- too many lists will complicate life
What will be the duty of WOM then ?
WOM can take care of these:
- announcement list
- Fedora Weekly Report on Fedoraproject.org
- FedoraNews.org/cms
Im not asking for merging since each has a different objective/roadmap.
WOM can
- Provide enough guidelines which states the differences between
those medium for new contributors integrate the project easily.
- have a seperate mailing list where WOM contributors can interact
- discuss how annoucement / information can be spread properly for
Fedora's good
- merge the actual contributors of
- - announcement list
- - Fedora Weekly Report on Fedoraproject.org
- - FedoraNews.org/cms
- - translators
- provide assistance/mechanism to help translators with the announcement
- treats requests (from the community/fedora users) which seek a
particular information on a particular project.
- look whether the wiki pages of a particular fedora project does
provide the relevant information or what is lacking.
Consequences ?
Announcement list is a high traffic list, 99% of traffic which is
nothing to do with ambassadors, _or_ WoM. WOM can create a sort of
mechanism such as announcement related to ambassadors have
[ambassadors] or [amba] in the subject.
In the end, not only the Ambassadors will benefit from it but also all
the Fedora contributors.
Will WOM be part of Marketing afterwards ?
why should it not be part of Marketing?
WOM is part of the Marketing Project so this is why I wrote to the
Marketing mailing list. You can forward it to another appropriate
place if you want.
Of course, WOM will not be limited to what I wrote :)
Cheers,
Chitlesh GOORAH
--
http://clunixchit.blogspot.com
18 years
Fedora Core 5
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
"Think of Fedora as the standalone (and more user-friendly) flavor of
Linux Enterprise Desktop, but without the enterprise support. It’s a
true community open-source project, sponsored by Red Hat, where new
features get something of a test drive before being incorporated into
Red Hat Linux. According to the company, version 5’s biggest features
are an easier install program with more drivers, and a new, smoother
interface. We found that indeed it was extremely easy to use, without
sacrificing security (it includes SELinux). In fact of all the programs
we tested, this one was the easiest to manage from a user’s
perspective."
http://www.gcn.com/print/25_7/40266-1.html
Rahul
18 years
Re: Active Vs Passive was..Why getting Shared Media rolling is important
by Karlie Robinson
FYI - Clair is on Hotmail right now
~K
Clair Shaw wrote:
> From: Karlie Robinson <karlie_robinson(a)webpath.net>
>
>>
>> What I'm talking about is a no-holds-bared *marketing* assault on the
>> installed computer base in schools.
>
>
> Hi, this is a good idea; I'm wondering if this is something that can
> be done through the Word Of Mouth project?
Word of mouth will surely help, and it will help bring in warm leads.
It may also take longer to get people on board.
It may need to start with a "Seed" school and then systematically find
decision makers to talk with.
The very first "seed" would be a pilot program. They would be a willing
participant aware that there are going to be bumps along the way. Which
isn't that hard to overcome as long as they know we're willing to bust
butts to make it right.
The Seed would then be an example for the next phase which spreading
FOSS to neighboring schools.
But the point to make with Schools is saving money. If we're really on
the ball, we're going to gather volunteers and do all the installs for
the cost of the Pizza and cold drinks. I'd even wager that would cost
less than their OS, Antiviurs, and malware cleaner for 1 machine.
18 years
example glabels template for fedora business cards
by Jef Spaleta
I take the lack of glabels templates for the Fedora business cards
idea as a personal affront to my heroic effort to keep a glabels
package maintained in Extras. In an effort to save your very souls
from my insatiable rage I have demeaned myself to create an example
glabels template which laughs in the face of the .odt template which
cowers in my template's presence. So incredibly frightened is the odt
template by the awesome majesty of the glabels template that the it
has failed to even heed the ancient evolutionary compulsion to void
its bowels in preparation for a dash for survival. For it is obvious
to the odt templates higher brain, that fighting my glabels template
is no option and fleeing from its devastating countenance is folly.
The odt template's only hope is to play dead, but such hope is slim
because the glabels template hunts for its prey with uncanny
supernatural abilities.
Anyways... i made a glabels example template for the business cards,
using the banner and logo scavanged from the wiki and the fedora-logos
package. It would have been better if i could have found an svg
banner. And no I can't put more than one type of business card in a
single file.. so if you want to included glabels templates on the
wikipage you'll need to have one per type of card layout. They are
wicked easy to make though.
-jef"You know.. you can use glabels to make stickers... la de da de da"spaleta
18 years
