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=== Who Contributes the Most to LibreOffice? (Linux Journal) ===
=== Linux Leaders, Part II: Fedora and Red Hat Derivative Distros (IT Management) ===


[[User:Sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013722.html</ref> an article from Linux Journal noting contributions to LibreOffice:
[[User:Sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013730.html</ref> an article from the blog IT Management surveying the linux landscape and focusing on Red Hat-based distributions, including Fedora:


"Bosdonnat began tracking line contributions in the middle of September
"In many of its releases, it is among the most innovative distros, releasing new software developed in co-operation with upstream projects. Development is more or less continuous within its Rawhide repository, with stable releases produced every six months.
2010 with the original 14 contributions being made by Oracle. Oracle
actually contributes code to OpenOffice.org, and then LibreOffice merges
those changes, thus resulting in Oracle's contributions to the new fork.
These 112 contributions have continued throughout development, but are
dwarfed by the contributions of new developers."


These contributions make up well over half of the total new changes
The main derivative of Fedora is RHEL. RHEL is essentially a snapshot of Fedora, with extra testing for stability and quality control, and the addition of backports of some applications released by Fedora after the snapshot"
found in LibreOffice as of mid-February. Weekly contributions in this
area have averaged between 20 and 30 with a total number of 517 line
contributions.


Red Hat, who also contributed to OpenOffice.org, has chipped in as
The full article is available<ref>http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3927416/Linux-Leaders-Part-II-Fedora-and-Red-Hat-Derivative-Distros.htm</ref>.
well. With usually two contributions per week, Red Hat developers have
provided 39 patches since the fork."


The full article is available<ref>http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/who-contributes-most-libreoffice</ref>.
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=== Alpha version of Fedora 15 released (H Online) ===
 
[[User:Sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013729.html</ref> an article in The H Online about the Fedora 15 alpha release:
 
"an overview of which can be found in the release notes and feature list. The distribution will now use LibreOffice as its office suite – Fedora was one of the first distributions to make the switch to the OpenOffice.org alternative back in October last year. The alpha includes a Linux 2.6.38 release candidate as its kernel and uses a pre-release version of GCC 4.6. Responsibility for booting is taken up by Systemd, an alternative to SysVinit and Upstart. Systemd was in the running for use in both Fedora 14 and openSUSE 11.4, but was eventually dropped from both.
 
The most striking change in Lovelock and one which is sure to fuel plenty of discussion is the switch to GNOME 3, which breaks with many of the concepts that GNOME users, and computer users in general, have become used to over many years"
 
The full post is available<ref>http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Alpha-version-of-Fedora-15-released-1203900.html</ref>.


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=== Fedora 15 alpha delayed - Btrfs may be default in 16 (H Online) ===
=== Fedora 15 Linux hits first alpha, debuts BoxGrinder for cloud (InternetNews.com) ===
 
Kara Schiltz forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013728.html</ref> another article highlighting the Fedora 15 alpha release from the InternetNews.com blog:


[[User:Sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]]  forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-February/013713.html</ref> an an article in The H Online about the decision to push back Fedora 15 alpha:
"Fedora 15, codenamed 'Lovelock' now has its first alpha milestone
available<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease</ref>. This is a BIG
release for Fedora in that it's the first Fedora of the post Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 era, and oh yeah first with GNOME 3, SystemD and BoxGrinder.


"The Fedora project has postponed the release of the first and only
GNOME 3, including GNOME Shell mark the evolution of the Linux desktop and Fedora is likely to be the first big Linux distro to full integrate it. When it comes to systemd, that's been a long time coming, but in Fedora 15, it's finally fully baked making it easier and faster to manage and startup background daemons.
alpha version of Fedora 15, originally scheduled for 1 March, by a week.
This was due, at least in part, to a bug in X Server that occurred in
connection with keyboard layouts for such languages as German or French
and prevented users from successfully logging into GDM. Subsequent
milestones in the release schedule for Fedora 15 remain unaffected at
present, and the final release is still scheduled for 10 May.  


The fifteenth Fedora release is currently planned to be the first
BoxGrinder is another story and is a very exciting technology. Red Hat
version that won't require a special boot parameter to be submitted to
first starting talking about BoxGrinder a year ago<ref>http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3864466/Red-Hat-Talks-Up-Open-Source-Cloud-Plans.htm</ref>
the installer in order to format a storage device with the experimental
as a new way to build virtual software appliances (think SUSE Studio from rival Novell)."
Btrfs file system. Red Hat employee Josef Bacik, who is heavily involved
in the development of Btrfs, has now proposed on the project's most
important developer mailing list that Btrfs should be made the default
file system in Fedora 16, which is expected in late October or early
November"


The full post is available<ref>http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Fedora-15-alpha-delayed-Btrfs-may-be-default-in-16-1198065.html</ref>.
The full article is available<ref>http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2011/03/fedora-15-linux-hits-first-alp.html</ref>


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=== Beyond FUDCon with Robyn Bergeron, Fedora Program Manager (Linux Magazine) ===
=== Debian takes security very seriously… but how? ===
 
[[User:Sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-March/013727.html</ref> a blog posting about Bugzilla security patches and linux distro comparisons vis-a-vis security:


[[User:Sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-February/013714.html</ref> another article highlighting Fedora community leaders, this with Robyn Bergeron, who remarked:
"And people often come on IRC asking us for help, because their Bugzilla package provided with their Linux distro is broken or behaves in a weird way (typically a broken configuration or customization). And guess what? Most of the time, they use the Debian package. Yes, very seriously! For comparison, Fedora updated their Bugzilla packages the day after we released 3.6.4, and Mandriva the week after! It looks like they take security a bit more seriously."


"I personally would love to see more folks getting involved in areas
The full post is available<ref>https://lpsolit.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/debian-takes-security-very-seriously-but-how/</ref>.
that don't necessarily require coding skills. I think that there is
enormous room for growth and contribution in these areas, and there are
plenty of Linux enthusiasts out there who have the skills and
imagination to make great contributions in these places."


The full article is available<ref>http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Beyond-FUDCon-with-Robyn-Bergeron-Fedora-Program-Manager</ref>
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Revision as of 15:03, 9 March 2011

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

Linux Leaders, Part II: Fedora and Red Hat Derivative Distros (IT Management)

Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] an article from the blog IT Management surveying the linux landscape and focusing on Red Hat-based distributions, including Fedora:

"In many of its releases, it is among the most innovative distros, releasing new software developed in co-operation with upstream projects. Development is more or less continuous within its Rawhide repository, with stable releases produced every six months.

The main derivative of Fedora is RHEL. RHEL is essentially a snapshot of Fedora, with extra testing for stability and quality control, and the addition of backports of some applications released by Fedora after the snapshot"

The full article is available[2].

Alpha version of Fedora 15 released (H Online)

Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] an article in The H Online about the Fedora 15 alpha release:

"an overview of which can be found in the release notes and feature list. The distribution will now use LibreOffice as its office suite – Fedora was one of the first distributions to make the switch to the OpenOffice.org alternative back in October last year. The alpha includes a Linux 2.6.38 release candidate as its kernel and uses a pre-release version of GCC 4.6. Responsibility for booting is taken up by Systemd, an alternative to SysVinit and Upstart. Systemd was in the running for use in both Fedora 14 and openSUSE 11.4, but was eventually dropped from both.

The most striking change in Lovelock and one which is sure to fuel plenty of discussion is the switch to GNOME 3, which breaks with many of the concepts that GNOME users, and computer users in general, have become used to over many years"

The full post is available[2].

Fedora 15 Linux hits first alpha, debuts BoxGrinder for cloud (InternetNews.com)

Kara Schiltz forwarded[1] another article highlighting the Fedora 15 alpha release from the InternetNews.com blog:

"Fedora 15, codenamed 'Lovelock' now has its first alpha milestone available[2]. This is a BIG release for Fedora in that it's the first Fedora of the post Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 era, and oh yeah first with GNOME 3, SystemD and BoxGrinder.

GNOME 3, including GNOME Shell mark the evolution of the Linux desktop and Fedora is likely to be the first big Linux distro to full integrate it. When it comes to systemd, that's been a long time coming, but in Fedora 15, it's finally fully baked making it easier and faster to manage and startup background daemons.

BoxGrinder is another story and is a very exciting technology. Red Hat first starting talking about BoxGrinder a year ago[3] as a new way to build virtual software appliances (think SUSE Studio from rival Novell)."

The full article is available[4]

Debian takes security very seriously… but how?

Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] a blog posting about Bugzilla security patches and linux distro comparisons vis-a-vis security:

"And people often come on IRC asking us for help, because their Bugzilla package provided with their Linux distro is broken or behaves in a weird way (typically a broken configuration or customization). And guess what? Most of the time, they use the Debian package. Yes, very seriously! For comparison, Fedora updated their Bugzilla packages the day after we released 3.6.4, and Mandriva the week after! It looks like they take security a bit more seriously."

The full post is available[2].