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| ==== Fedora 13 Released ====
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| Our top announcement this week was yesterday's release of Fedora 13, which is looking like a very strong release indeed. [[User:Pfrields|Paul W. Frields]] announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-May/002815.html</ref>:
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| "I'm proud to announce the release of Fedora 13, the latest innovative
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| If you can't wait to get the distribution, simply visit<ref>http://get.fedoraproject.org?F13an</ref>
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| If you want a quick tour of highlights in this release, check out<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_one_page_release_notes?F13an</ref>
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| You can also find this announcement text at<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_announcement?F13an</ref>
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| Or read on for loads of information about the new release and all the
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| * * *
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| Fedora is a leading edge, free and open source operating system that
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| continues to deliver innovative features to many users, with a new
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| release about every six months. We bring to you the latest and
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| greatest release of Fedora ever, Fedora 13! Join us and share the joy
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| of Free software and the community with friends and family. We have
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| several major new features with special focus on desktops, netbooks,
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| virtualization and system administration.
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| ===== What's New in Fedora 13? =====
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| ====== For desktop users ======
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| A universe of new features for end users:
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| * 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.
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| * 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.
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| * 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.
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| * 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.
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| * 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.
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| * 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.
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| * 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.
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| * 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.
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| * 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.
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| * 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.
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| * 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.
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| * 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.
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| ====== For developers ======
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| For developers there are all sorts of additional goodies:
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| * 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.
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| * 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.
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| * 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.
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| * 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.
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| * 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.
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| ====== For system administrators ======
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| And don't think we forgot the system administrators:
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| * 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.
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| * 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.
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| * 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.
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| * 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.
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| * 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.
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| * 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.
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| * 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.
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| * 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.
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| And that's only the beginning. A more complete list with details of all the new features on board Fedora 13 is available at<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/13/FeatureList?F13an</ref>
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| OK, go get it.<ref>
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| http://get.fedoraproject.org?F13an</ref> You know you can't wait.
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| If you are upgrading from a previous release of Fedora, refer to<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading?F13an</ref>
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| 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.
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| For an quick tour of features in Fedora 13 and pictures of many friends of Fedora, check out our "short-form" release notes<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_one_page_release_notes?F13an</ref>
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| Fedora 13 full release notes and guides for several languages are available at<ref>http://docs.fedoraproject.org/?F13an</ref>
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| Fedora 13 common bugs are documented at<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F13_bugs?F13an</ref>
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| ===== Fedora Spins =====
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| Fedora spins are alternate version of Fedora tailored for various
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| types of users via hand-picked application set or
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| customizations. Fedora 13 includes four completely new spins in
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| addition to the several already available, including Fedora Security
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| Lab, Design Suite, Sugar on a Stick and Moblin spin. More information
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| on these spins and much more is available at<ref>http://spins.fedoraproject.org/?F13an</ref>
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| ===== Power PC Support =====
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| With Apple moving to Intel based machines and Sony PlayStation
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| dropping Linux support, Fedora PowerPC (PPC) usage has dropped
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| considerably. In Fedora 13, PPC is now a secondary architecture and
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| the Fedora release engineering team no longer manages PPC releases. If
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| you would like to participate in the PPC effort or any of the
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| secondary architecture teams, refer to<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures?F13an</ref>
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| ===== Contributing =====
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| For more information including common and known bugs, tips on how to
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| report bugs, and the official release schedule, please refer to the
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| release notes<ref>http://docs.fedoraproject.org/?F13an</ref>
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| There are many ways to contribute beyond bug reporting. You can help
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| translate software and content, test and give feedback on software
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| updates, write and edit documentation, design and do artwork, help
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| with all sorts of promotional activities, and package free software
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| for use by millions of Fedora users worldwide. To get started, visit
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| http://join.fedoraproject.org today!
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| ===== Fedora 14 =====
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| Even as we continue to provide updates with enhancements and bug fixes
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| to improve the Fedora 13 experience, our next release, Fedora 14, is
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| development for several months already. We have an early schedule for
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| an end of Oct 2010 release<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/14/Schedule?F13an</ref>
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| ===== Contact information =====
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| If you are a journalist or reporter, you can find additional
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| ==== Fedora Community Gaming Session 4 - Hedgewars ====
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| Bruno Wolff III announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-May/002814.html</ref>:
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| We need to match versions, so players on F11 or F12 systems will need to
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| ==== ATrpms for Fedora 13; upcoming EOL for Fedora 11 ====
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| Axel Thimm announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-May/002816.html</ref>:
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| "ATrpms is officially launching Fedora 13 support<ref>http://ATrpms.net/dist/f13/</ref>
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| ==== Announcing Sugar on a Stick v.3 (Mirabelle) ====
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| Sebastian Dziallas announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-May/002817.html</ref>:
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| "Mirabelles have arrived!<ref>http://www.flickr.com/photos/enil/3892066169/</ref>
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| Platform features support for 3G connections, increased accessibility,
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| and better integration with our Activity Portal<ref>http://activities.sugarlabs.org</ref> allowing students and teachers to update their sticks with additional Activities. More information about the 0.88 release of Sugar is available<ref>http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.88/Notes</ref>.
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| 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<ref>http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/docs/customization-guide/</ref>.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| If you'd like to contribute to the next version, due for release in
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| early November, join us at our Contributors Portal<ref>http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick</ref>. All types of
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| 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.
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| Thank you especially to the Sugar on a Stick team and all the people involved for their awesome work on this release!
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| ===Fedora Development News=== | | ===Fedora Development News=== |
| ==== CVS branches for F-11 closed ====
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| Dennis Gilmore announced<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2010-May/000616.html</ref>:
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| Since Fedora 13 was released today new CVS branches for F-11 will not be
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| | ===Announcements from the Fedora user list=== |
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| ===Fedora Events=== | | ===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! | | Fedora events are the exclusive and 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! |
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| ====Upcoming Events (March 2010 to May 2010)==== | | ====Upcoming Events (March 2010 to May 2010)==== |
| * North America (NA)<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q1_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29</ref> | | * North America (NA)<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q2_.28June_2010_-_August_2010.29</ref> |
| * Central & South America (LATAM) ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29</ref> | | * Central & South America (LATAM) <ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q2_.28June_2010_-_August_2010.29_2</ref> |
| * Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q1_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29_2</ref> | | * Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q2_.28June_2010_-_August_2010.29_3</ref> |
| * India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q1_.28March_2010_-_May_2010.29_3</ref> | | * India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY11_Q2_.28June_2010_-_August_2010.29_4</ref> |
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