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In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora<ref>http://planet.fedoraproject.org</ref> - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide.
In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora<ref>http://planet.fedoraproject.org</ref> - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide.


Contributing Writer: [[User:Abatkin|Adam Batkin]]
Contributing Writer: [[User:pcalarco|Pascal Calarco]]


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=== General ===
=== Events ===
 
=== FUDCon Tempe 2011 ====
 
There have been a lot of posts around FUDCon Tempe that took place two weeks ago. Here are the ones from the last few days.
 
Chris Lalancette provided a couple posts<ref>http://clalance.blogspot.com/2011/02/fudcon-2011-day-1.html</ref><ref>http://clalance.blogspot.com/2011/02/fudcon-2011-day-2.html</ref> providing summaries of the sessions he attended, including talks on Asterisk Hacks, Matahari, GIMP as a Pro Photo Editing Tool, and more.
 
Juan "Nushio" Rodriguez blogged about the Fedora Trademarks session<ref>http://k3rnel.net/2011/02/08/fudcon-tempe-red-hat-talks-pt-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fudcon-tempe-red-hat-talks-pt-2</ref> and Red Hat Legal<ref>http://k3rnel.net/2011/02/07/fudcon-tempe-red-hat-legal-talks/</ref> discussion he attended, as well as Mel and Sebastian's "I'd like to continue hacking, but my hands hurt"<ref>http://k3rnel.net/2011/02/09/fudcon-tempe-id-like-to-continue-hacking-but-my-hands-really-hurt/</ref>.
 
[[User:dmalcolm|David Malcolm]] posted<ref>http://dmalcolm.livejournal.com/5597.html</ref> about his talk on "Different species of Python"
 
==== FOSDEM 2011 ====
 
[[User:nicu|Nicu Buculei]] offered<ref>http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2011/02/after-fosdem-2011.html</ref> some photos from FOSDEM 2011, along with a full gallery<ref>http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/photos/fosdem2011/</ref> of all of his photos.
 
==== Other Events ====
 
[[User:Sgordon|Steve Gordon]] summarized<ref>http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/sgordon/2011/02/08/linux-conf-au-wrap-up/</ref> his and other activity at the Linux.conf.au that took place at the end of January, and pointed folks to more videos from the event<ref>http://linuxconfau.blip.tv/</ref>.


Starting us off this week is a blast from the past: [[JesusRodriguez|Jesus Rodriguez]] running<ref>http://zeusville.wordpress.com/2010/12/01/os2-warp-4-in-virtualbox/</ref> OS/2 Warp 4 (in VirtualBox).
=== Fedora Community ===


As part of the process to review Anaconda's user experience, [[MairinDuffy|Máirín Duffy]] noted<ref>http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/12/02/reinitializing-will-cause-all-data-to-be-lost/</ref> that the "REINITIALIZING WILL CAUSE ALL DATA TO BE LOST!" dialog is both unnecessarily scary and complicated. And this week in Anaconda (#7), [[User:Clumens|Chris Lumens]] also discussed<ref>http://www.bangmoney.org/serendipity/index.php?/archives/161-This-Week-in-Anaconda-7.html</ref> the storage component, specifically how it is tested and using hard disks with different sector sizes. In Part #8<ref>http://www.bangmoney.org/serendipity/index.php?/archives/162-This-Week-in-Anaconda-8.html</ref>, Chris introduced "Lorax", a new project to rebuild the scripts that build an installation image.
There has been a lot of discussion around whether Fedora is a distro for power users or for all. Juan "Nushio" Rodriguez suggested<ref>http://k3rnel.net/2011/02/09/fedora-rally-for-sanity/</ref> that we should "be excellent to all", invoking some of Jared Smith's comments during the FUDCon Tempe State of Fedora address


While on the topic of disks, [[User:Sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] outlined<ref>http://fedoranext.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/buttering-up-fedora-15/</ref> where btrfs is going (hint: one day you will likely see it as the default filesystem in Fedora). And the days of naming ethernet interfaces <tt>ethX</tt> may be coming to an end<ref>http://fedoranext.wordpress.com/2010/12/07/a-lesson-in-persistency/</ref>. "Starting in Fedora 15, Ethernet ports on servers will have a new naming scheme corresponding to physical locations, rather than ethX."
Mairin Duffy suggested<ref>http://mairin.wordpress.com/2011/02/08/on-ownership/</ref> a "Fedora: You Make It" logo, which was seen as a positive perspective on who owns Fedora. [[User:Spot|Tom "Spot" Callaway]] offered<ref>http://spot.livejournal.com/316660.html</ref> that constructive criticism involves providing at least one suggested solution to a given problem.  Complaining for the sake of it is merely destructive.  Adam Miller suggested that we "Ask not what your distro can do for you, ask what we can do for our distro"<ref>http://pseudogen.blogspot.com/2011/02/ask-not-what-your-distro-can-do-for-you.html</ref> on move on with some real solutions.


[[TomCallaway|Tom Callaway]] posted<ref>http://spot.livejournal.com/316190.html</ref> a set of notes about tuning Fedora for use on an SSD.
[[User:kital|Joerg Simon]] suggested that we use the opportunity to spur more solutions building and improve communication across the community<ref>http://kitall.blogspot.com/2011/02/give-us-back-our-distro.html</ref>.


[[User:Wwoods|Will Woods]] continued<ref>http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/wwoods/2011/01/03/depcheck-tags-and-timing-2/</ref> describing how the Fedora infrastructure goes about building and testing packages before they arrive on a user's system.
=== General ===


Have you been wondering what the "Network Control Panel" will look like in Gnome 3? Wonder no more, as [[RichardHughes|Richard Hughes]]  posted<ref>http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2010/12/16/gnome-3-and-the-network-control-panel/</ref> a bunch of potential screenshots.
Xenode Systems reviewed<ref>http://xenodesystems.blogspot.com/2011/02/calyphrox-v50-lo-mejor-en-proxys-esta.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+XenodeSystemsBlog+%28Xenode+Systems+Blog%29</ref> Calyphrox Webproxy 5.0 and "Top 10 favorite applications in Fedora"<ref>http://xenodesystems.blogspot.com/2011/02/meme-mis-10-aplicaciones-favoritas-en.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+XenodeSystemsBlog+%28Xenode+Systems+Blog%29</ref>in their Spanish-language blog this week.


[[User:Rjones|Richard W.M. Jones]] explained<ref>http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/12/02/tip-uploading-and-downloading/</ref> how you can use libguestfs, guestfish and its toolset to easily move files between host and guest systems.
Bert Desmet encouraged<ref>http://blog.bdesmet.be/2011/02/1year-whitespace-time-for-a-newline/</ref> more submissions and participation for next month's Whitespace hacker conf in Belgium.


[[User:Adamwill|Adam Williamson]] reported<ref>http://www.happyassassin.net/2010/12/03/unity-on-fedora-possibly/</ref> that you may soon be able to install Unity on Fedora. "Why? Well, a few reasons. Mainly, Unity’s an interesting project. I want to look at it and compare it to GNOME Shell and I think quite a few others do too, so it seems nice to package it so you can run both on Fedora..." Adam followed-up<ref>http://www.happyassassin.net/2010/12/08/unity-hardware-failures-and-f15-qa/</ref> with some more technical details.
Miroslav Grepl offered a three-part overview<ref>http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/mgrepl/2011/02/07/playing-with-selinux-part-1/</ref><ref>http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/mgrepl/2011/02/08/playing-with-selinux-part-2/</ref><ref>http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/mgrepl/2011/02/08/playing-with-selinux-part-3/</ref> on his upcoming Developer2011<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DeveloperConference2011</ref> talk on "Playing with SELinux."


[[BryanClark|Bryan Clark]] mentioned<ref>http://clarkbw.net/blog/2010/12/08/thunderbird-conversations/</ref> that there is now an experimental Thunderbird extension that can display conversations in a similar way to Gmail.
Chris Tyler updated<ref>http://blog.chris.tylers.info/index.php?/archives/244-PandaBoard-Building-Fedora-ARM.html</ref> us on activity at Seneca in building a multi-PandaBoard Fedora ARM farm with eventually 15 connected boards.


[[User:Jcm|Jon Masters]] suggested<ref>http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/2010/12/15/opinion-fedora-needs-an-architect/</ref> that perhaps the Fedora Project needs a Technical Architect. "FESCo should appoint a person as their technical representative who speaks for overall system architecture concerns. The person in this role should actively seek out compatibility or integration problems but should also be a “go to” person for concerns that arise in the interests of distribution cohesion."
Andrew Overholt requested<ref>http://overholt.ca/wp/?p=201</ref> some help with backing up the history for the Eclipse Linux Tools activity as it moves from subversion to git, and several suggestions were offered.


[[MairinDuffy|Máirín Duffy]] mentioned<ref>http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/12/16/fedora-board-blog/</ref> that the Fedora Board now has its very own blog where the December 13th meeting minutes have already been posted<ref>http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/board/?p=3</ref>.
Truong Ahn Tuan announced<ref>http://blog.iwayvietnam.com/tuanta/2011/02/08/zimbra-7-is-generally-available/</ref> the general availability of Zimbra 7, including feature highlights and distro packaging.


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Revision as of 11:27, 10 February 2011

Planet Fedora

In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide.

Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco

  1. ↑ http://planet.fedoraproject.org

Events

FUDCon Tempe 2011 =

There have been a lot of posts around FUDCon Tempe that took place two weeks ago. Here are the ones from the last few days.

Chris Lalancette provided a couple posts[1][2] providing summaries of the sessions he attended, including talks on Asterisk Hacks, Matahari, GIMP as a Pro Photo Editing Tool, and more.

Juan "Nushio" Rodriguez blogged about the Fedora Trademarks session[3] and Red Hat Legal[4] discussion he attended, as well as Mel and Sebastian's "I'd like to continue hacking, but my hands hurt"[5].

David Malcolm posted[6] about his talk on "Different species of Python"

FOSDEM 2011

Nicu Buculei offered[7] some photos from FOSDEM 2011, along with a full gallery[8] of all of his photos.

Other Events

Steve Gordon summarized[9] his and other activity at the Linux.conf.au that took place at the end of January, and pointed folks to more videos from the event[10].

Fedora Community

There has been a lot of discussion around whether Fedora is a distro for power users or for all. Juan "Nushio" Rodriguez suggested[11] that we should "be excellent to all", invoking some of Jared Smith's comments during the FUDCon Tempe State of Fedora address

Mairin Duffy suggested[12] a "Fedora: You Make It" logo, which was seen as a positive perspective on who owns Fedora. Tom "Spot" Callaway offered[13] that constructive criticism involves providing at least one suggested solution to a given problem. Complaining for the sake of it is merely destructive. Adam Miller suggested that we "Ask not what your distro can do for you, ask what we can do for our distro"[14] on move on with some real solutions.

Joerg Simon suggested that we use the opportunity to spur more solutions building and improve communication across the community[15].

General

Xenode Systems reviewed[16] Calyphrox Webproxy 5.0 and "Top 10 favorite applications in Fedora"[17]in their Spanish-language blog this week.

Bert Desmet encouraged[18] more submissions and participation for next month's Whitespace hacker conf in Belgium.

Miroslav Grepl offered a three-part overview[19][20][21] on his upcoming Developer2011[22] talk on "Playing with SELinux."

Chris Tyler updated[23] us on activity at Seneca in building a multi-PandaBoard Fedora ARM farm with eventually 15 connected boards.

Andrew Overholt requested[24] some help with backing up the history for the Eclipse Linux Tools activity as it moves from subversion to git, and several suggestions were offered.

Truong Ahn Tuan announced[25] the general availability of Zimbra 7, including feature highlights and distro packaging.

  1. ↑ http://clalance.blogspot.com/2011/02/fudcon-2011-day-1.html
  2. ↑ http://clalance.blogspot.com/2011/02/fudcon-2011-day-2.html
  3. ↑ http://k3rnel.net/2011/02/08/fudcon-tempe-red-hat-talks-pt-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fudcon-tempe-red-hat-talks-pt-2
  4. ↑ http://k3rnel.net/2011/02/07/fudcon-tempe-red-hat-legal-talks/
  5. ↑ http://k3rnel.net/2011/02/09/fudcon-tempe-id-like-to-continue-hacking-but-my-hands-really-hurt/
  6. ↑ http://dmalcolm.livejournal.com/5597.html
  7. ↑ http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2011/02/after-fosdem-2011.html
  8. ↑ http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/photos/fosdem2011/
  9. ↑ http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/sgordon/2011/02/08/linux-conf-au-wrap-up/
  10. ↑ http://linuxconfau.blip.tv/
  11. ↑ http://k3rnel.net/2011/02/09/fedora-rally-for-sanity/
  12. ↑ http://mairin.wordpress.com/2011/02/08/on-ownership/
  13. ↑ http://spot.livejournal.com/316660.html
  14. ↑ http://pseudogen.blogspot.com/2011/02/ask-not-what-your-distro-can-do-for-you.html
  15. ↑ http://kitall.blogspot.com/2011/02/give-us-back-our-distro.html
  16. ↑ http://xenodesystems.blogspot.com/2011/02/calyphrox-v50-lo-mejor-en-proxys-esta.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+XenodeSystemsBlog+%28Xenode+Systems+Blog%29
  17. ↑ http://xenodesystems.blogspot.com/2011/02/meme-mis-10-aplicaciones-favoritas-en.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+XenodeSystemsBlog+%28Xenode+Systems+Blog%29
  18. ↑ http://blog.bdesmet.be/2011/02/1year-whitespace-time-for-a-newline/
  19. ↑ http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/mgrepl/2011/02/07/playing-with-selinux-part-1/
  20. ↑ http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/mgrepl/2011/02/08/playing-with-selinux-part-2/
  21. ↑ http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/mgrepl/2011/02/08/playing-with-selinux-part-3/
  22. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DeveloperConference2011
  23. ↑ http://blog.chris.tylers.info/index.php?/archives/244-PandaBoard-Building-Fedora-ARM.html
  24. ↑ http://overholt.ca/wp/?p=201
  25. ↑ http://blog.iwayvietnam.com/tuanta/2011/02/08/zimbra-7-is-generally-available/
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