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Planet Fedora

This is the Planet Fedora section, covering news from planet.fedoraproject.org[1], a collection of blogs from Fedora users spanning the globe.

Contributing Writer: Joel Braun

Events

FudCon Pune 2011

Kishan Goyal posted on his experience on day 2 at FudCon Pune^[1].

Joerg Simon posted pictures^[2] of the event.

Izhar Firdaus wrote about his experience^[3] at FudCon, as well as some thoughts on the atmosphere of the event.

Suchakra also blogged on Fudcon Pune^[4].

Kushal Das posted photos^[5] of the event to his blog.

Fedora Community

The release of Fedora 16 has been the main topic of the blogroll recently, and it's fair to say that it's being greeted with open arms by many of the users.

Juanjo Martinez blogged on his first impressions of F16, calling it an "impressive release"^[6].

General

Adam Williamson posted about ^[7]starting work on Fedora 17, and experimentation with the new kernel in a virtualized environment.

[1] ttp://kishangoyal.co.cc/post/12549697509/fudcon-pune-11-day-2

[2] ttp://kitall.blogspot.com/2011/11/fudcon-pune-2011-travel-und-event.html

[3] ttp://blog.kagesenshi.org/2011/11/fudcon-pune-2011.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ShadowLogs%2FFedora+%28%3A%3A+Shadow+Logs%3A%3A+Fedora%29#!/2011/11/fudcon-pune-2011.html

[4] ttp://suchakra.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/fudcon%e2%86%94funcon-pune-2011/

[5] ttp://kushaldas.in/2011/11/10/photoset-from-fudcon-pune-2011/

[6] ttp://engbblog.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/welcome-fedora-16/

[7] ttp://www.happyassassin.net/2011/11/10/stupid-fedora-tricks/

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 == Planet Fedora ==
-In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora<ref>http://planet.fedoraproject.org</ref> - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide.
+This is the Planet Fedora section, covering news from planet.fedoraproject.org[http://planet.fedoraproject.org], a collection of blogs from Fedora users spanning the globe.
-Contributing Writer: [[User:Abatkin|Adam Batkin]]
+Contributing Writer: [[User:Jbraun|Joel Braun]]
-<references/>
+=== Events ===
-=== General ===
+====FudCon Pune 2011====
+[[user:kishan|Kishan Goyal]] posted on his experience on day 2 at FudCon Pune<ref>http://kishangoyal.co.cc/post/12549697509/fudcon-pune-11-day-2</ref>.
-[[PavolRusnak|Pavol Rusnak]] described<ref>http://stick.gk2.sk/blog/2009/10/wrong-usage-of-ld_library_path/</ref> how scripts using <tt>LD_LIBRARY_PATH</tt> can be written to work in a more secure way.
+[[user:jsimon|Joerg Simon]] posted pictures<ref>http://kitall.blogspot.com/2011/11/fudcon-pune-2011-travel-und-event.html</ref> of the event.
-[[KonstantinRyabitsev|Konstantin Ryabitsev]] explained<ref>http://blog.mricon.com/2009/10/passwords-in-php-scripts.html</ref> the many reasons why embedding passwords in PHP scripts is a Bad Idea, and possible alternatives.
+[[user:izhar|Izhar Firdaus]] wrote about his experience<ref>http://blog.kagesenshi.org/2011/11/fudcon-pune-2011.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ShadowLogs%2FFedora+%28%3A%3A+Shadow+Logs%3A%3A+Fedora%29#!/2011/11/fudcon-pune-2011.html</ref> at FudCon, as well as some thoughts on the atmosphere of the event.
-[[User:Mdomsch|Matt Domsch]] helped<ref>http://domsch.com/blog/?p=107</ref> get some patches integrated so that Linuxes can use embedded TPM chips to feed the entropy pool (and get better/more secure random numbers).
+[[user:suchakra|Suchakra]] also blogged on Fudcon Pune<ref>http://suchakra.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/fudcon%e2%86%94funcon-pune-2011/</ref>.
-[[User:Kparal|Kamil Páral]] created<ref>http://kparal.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/rpmguard-print-important-differences-between-rpms/</ref> a tool, <tt>rpmguard</tt> "for checking differences between RPM packages. It is very similar to rpmdiff, but it prints only important changes, not all. Therefore it can be used every time a new package is built to easily see if something hasn’t went completely wrong."
+[[user:kushal|Kushal Das]] posted photos<ref>http://kushaldas.in/2011/11/10/photoset-from-fudcon-pune-2011/</ref> of the event to his blog.
+===Fedora Community===
-[[User:Rjones|Richard W.M. Jones]] has been busy at work on libguestfs. There are a few new tools: <tt>virt-tar</tt><ref>http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/new-tool-virt-tar/</ref> and <tt>virt-ls</tt><ref>http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/new-tool-virt-ls/</ref> as well as a list<ref>http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/fedora-virt-commands/</ref> of current (and upcoming) <tt>virt-*</tt> tools. Richard provided some tips too, obtaining<ref>http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/tip-get-windows-version-service-pack-number/</ref> the Windows version and service pack number and unpacking<ref>http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/unpack-a-mac-dmg-installer-using-guestfish/</ref> a Mac .dmg installer. And lastly, building a supermin appliance using <tt>febootstrap</tt>: Given a Fedora appliance on a Fedora host, "Let’s strip out all those programs and libraries from the appliance, and we’ll add them back from the host just before we launch it."
+The release of Fedora 16 has been the main topic of the blogroll recently, and it's fair to say that it's being greeted with open arms by many of the users.
-<references/>
+[[user:jjmartinez|Juanjo Martinez]] blogged on his first impressions of F16, calling it an "impressive release"<ref>http://engbblog.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/welcome-fedora-16/</ref>.
-=== Fedora 12 Beta Roundup ===
+===General===
-Lots of people have downloaded, installed and written up their experiences with the just-released Fedora 12 Beta. Collected here are some of the Fedora Planet blog posts on the topic.
+[[User:adamwill|Adam Williamson]] posted about <ref>http://www.happyassassin.net/2011/11/10/stupid-fedora-tricks/</ref>starting work on Fedora 17, and experimentation with the new kernel in a virtualized environment.
-[[User:Adamwill|Adam Williamson]]<ref>http://www.happyassassin.net/2009/10/20/fedora-12-beta-is-go/</ref>, [[User:Red|Sandro Mathys]]<ref>http://blog.sandro-mathys.ch/2009/10/20/f12-beta-on-lenovo-t400s</ref>, [[User:Pfrields|Paul W. Frields]]<ref>http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=2808</ref> and [[User:Ajamison|Andrew Vermilya Jamison]]<ref>http://blogs.andyjamison.com/andy/linux-trials/fedora-12-beta-initial-thoughts-and-a-pre-review/</ref> all installed the Beta and posted their initial thoughts.
-[[User:Nicubunu|Nicu Buceli]] noted<ref>http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2009/10/better-webcam-support.html</ref> F12's better webcam support and threw<ref>http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2009/10/my-own-windows-7-party.html</ref> a Windows 7 party to celebrate. And if you want your menu icons back, Nicu can tell<ref>http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2009/10/give-back-my-icons.html</ref> you how to do that too.
-Nicu also reviewed<ref>http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2009/10/way-of-dodo.html</ref> the new GNOME Shell, as did [[User:Jcollie|Jeff Ollie]]<ref>http://jeff.blogs.ocjtech.us/2009/10/gnome-shell.html</ref>.
-[[User:Mdomsch|Matt Domsch]] mentioned<ref>http://domsch.com/blog/?p=116</ref> that Fedora 12 is now self-hosting. "What does this mean? Simply put, it means that you can use a copy of Fedora 12 to rebuild, from source, all of Fedora 12 again."
-[[MairinDuffy|Máirín Duffy]] displayed<ref>http://linuxgrrl.com/blog/2009/10/24/f12-wallpaper-sprinting/</ref> the work so far in developing a new desktop wallpaper background image.
-And finally, some news from off-planet. [http://arstechnica.com/ Ars Technica] took a look<ref>http://arstechnica.com/open-source/reviews/2009/10/ars-takes-a-first-look-under-the-hood-of-fedora-12.ars</ref> at the Fedora 12 Beta release.
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