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Planet Fedora

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

Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin

↑ http://planet.fedoraproject.org

General

Devan Goodwin has "been doing some work recently on cobbler4j, a small Java library for interacting with Cobbler over XMLRPC based on the work done to integrate Cobbler into Spacewalk." ^[1]

A number of folks chimed in with thoughts on some recent changes to the PackageKit default permissions in Fedora 12. Seth Vidal explained^[2]: "In f12 the default policy for polkit for package kit is to allow users at the desktop to install signed pkgs from repositories enabled on the system." However, shortly thereafter it was announced that the default would change in an updated package. Ankur Sinha linked to the announcement^[3] on fedora-devel.

Steven Pritchard shared^[4] some further thoughts in a provocatively titled post "Why developers suck as admins".

Greg DeKoenigsberg used the opportunity to discuss^[5] "the difference between transparency and communication" in relation to the recent PackageKit changes.

Fedora 12 Roundup

Paul W. Frields^[1] and Kulbir Saini^[2] answered some of the more common questions to do with the new release.

Máirín Duffy announced^[3] that the new Fedora Spins site has gone live^[4].

Eric Christensen outlined^[5] twelve different types of documentation available with Fedora 12, from Release Notes to Security and Virtualization guides.

[1] ttp://planet.fedoraproject.org

[2] ttp://rm-rf.ca/blog/introducing-cobbler4j

[3] ttp://skvidal.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/polkit-and-package-kit-and-changing-settings/

[4] ttp://dodoincfedora.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/fedora-packagekit-change/

[5] ttp://blog.stevecoinc.com/2009/11/why-developers-suck-as-admins.html

[6] ttp://gregdek.livejournal.com/57105.html

[7] ttp://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=2811

[8] ttp://gofedora.com/news-fedora-12-constantine-released-all-you-need-to-know/

[9] ttp://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/new-fedora-spins-site-with-fedora-12/

[10] ttp://spins.fedoraproject.org/

[11] ttp://fedora-sparks.blogspot.com/2009/11/documenting-fedora-12-or-what-docs.html

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-This week is an amalgamation of posts from the past two weeks. Two for the price of one!
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 === General ===
-[[User:Ajamison|Andrew Vermilya Jamison]] took a look<ref>http://blogs.andyjamison.com/andy/linux-trials/fedora-community-beta-looks-sweet/</ref> at the new Fedora Community<ref>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/</ref> (Beta) site. "This is a great hub for communication in the distribution and promises to add new features that will make it more useful to other non Package contributing groups in Fedora...I can very well see this becoming a portal for the average Fedora user to: Check forum replies to topic you create, Reporting bugs using the Bugzilla API (would make it far easier to report a bug), Search the Smolt DB for hardware that works on Fedora, Tracking Wiki discussions and pages you might be involved with. All that and so much more, this site has great potential."
-[[User:Ujjwol|Ujjwol Lamichhane]] examined<ref>http://ujjwol.com.np/sugar-the-cooler-desktop/</ref> the Sugar desktop. "Most of you, Linux users have always been limited to the two big desktop names in Linux. GNOME and KDE today represent the Linux desktop. But there exist other desktop environment along with these two; XFCE, LDE etc. All these desktop environment was made with a normal desktop or laptop in mind but one desktop was made with small screen and children in mind. Yes, the Sugar; the XO’s desktop from Sugar Labs...Though named as child's desktop environment, I found Sugar as easy as GNOME, as plasmic as KDE and as lightweight as XFCE."
-[[RichardHughes|Richard Hughes]]' GNOME Color Manager progressed<ref>http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2009/11/02/gnome-color-manager-progress/</ref> further with a website<ref>http://projects.gnome.org/gnome-color-manager/</ref> and mailing list<ref>http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-color-manager-list</ref>. Feature-wise, the calibration process is now easier, and and there is initial scanner support<ref>http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2009/11/05/gnome-color-manager-and-scanners/</ref>.
+[[DevanGoodwin|Devan Goodwin]] has "been doing some work recently on <tt>cobbler4j</tt>, a small Java library for interacting with Cobbler over XMLRPC based on the work done to integrate Cobbler into Spacewalk." <ref>http://rm-rf.ca/blog/introducing-cobbler4j</ref>
-[[User:Rjones|Richard W.M. Jones]] performed a bunch of benchmarks using <tt>guestfish</tt>'s new sparse disk file creation capability. First was a terabyte<ref>http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/terabyte-virtual-disks/</ref>, but apparently that wasn't good enough. Next up was a Petabyte and an Exabyte<ref>http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/petabytes-exabytes-why-not/</ref>. Next up was an analysis<ref>http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/filesystem-metadata-overhead/</ref> of the metadata overhead of various filesystems, then of the <tt>mkfs</tt> times<ref>http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/mkfs-compared-on-different-filesystems/</ref>. And if you are "baffled by the 269 calls that libguestfs provides" check out the libguestfs API overview<ref>http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/easy-introduction-to-the-libguestfs-api/</ref>.
+A number of folks chimed in with thoughts on some recent changes to the PackageKit default permissions in Fedora 12. [[User:Skvidal|Seth Vidal]] explained<ref>http://skvidal.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/polkit-and-package-kit-and-changing-settings/</ref>: "In f12 the default policy for polkit for package kit is to allow users at the
+desktop to install signed pkgs from repositories enabled on the system." However, shortly thereafter it was announced that the default would change in an updated package. [[User:Ankursinha|Ankur Sinha]] linked to the announcement<ref>http://dodoincfedora.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/fedora-packagekit-change/</ref> on fedora-devel.
-This past week, the new Fedora Planet Meme was apparently using<ref>http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/fedora-12-rocks-on-tablets/</ref> Fedora<ref>http://thefinalzone.blogspot.com/2009/11/fun-with-tablet.html</ref> 12<ref>http://www.braincache.de/wp/2009/11/13/kindergarden-drawing/</ref> with<ref>http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/friday-fun-with-tablets/</ref> a<ref>http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2009/11/kindergarden-drawing.html</ref> tablet<ref>http://tatica.org/2009/11/13/dibujando-como-en-kindergarden/</ref>.
+[[User:Steve|Steven Pritchard]] shared<ref>http://blog.stevecoinc.com/2009/11/why-developers-suck-as-admins.html</ref> some further thoughts in a provocatively titled post "Why developers suck as admins".
-[[User:Sparks|Eric Christensen]] announced<ref>http://fedora-sparks.blogspot.com/2009/11/docs-going-to-cc-by-sa.html</ref> that the Fedora Docs project material will all be licensed under Creative Commons CC-BY-SA.
+[[GregDeK|Greg DeKoenigsberg]] used the opportunity to discuss<ref>http://gregdek.livejournal.com/57105.html</ref> "the difference between transparency and communication" in relation to the recent PackageKit changes.
+<references/>
-[[DaveJones|Dave Jones]] tried to clear<ref>http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/2009/11/10/common-hyperthreading-misconception/</ref> up a common misconception about how Linux handles announcing its hyper-threading status in <tt>/proc/cpuinfo</tt>.
+=== Fedora 12 Roundup ===
-[[MairinDuffy|Máirín Duffy]] and others have created<ref>http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/getting-ready-for-f12-media-sleeves-and-labels/</ref> a set of media sleeves and labels for Fedora 12, as well as a one-page Fedora 12 Release Notes PDF<ref>http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/fedora-12-one-page-release-notes-pdf/</ref>.
+[[User:Pfrields|Paul W. Frields]]<ref>http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=2811</ref> and [[KulbirSaini|Kulbir Saini]]<ref>http://gofedora.com/news-fedora-12-constantine-released-all-you-need-to-know/</ref> answered some of the more common questions to do with the new release.
-And in preparation for Fedora 12, [[User:Brejc8|Charles Brej]] posted<ref>http://brej.org/blog/?p=103</ref> detailed instructions for making Fedora icing. That you can actually eat. It's that awesome.
+[[MairinDuffy|Máirín Duffy]] announced<ref>http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/new-fedora-spins-site-with-fedora-12/</ref> that the new Fedora Spins site has gone live<ref>http://spins.fedoraproject.org/</ref>.
-[[HarishPillay|Harish Pillay]] pointed out<ref>http://harishpillay.livejournal.com/167485.html</ref> this week's Patent Stupidity, with Microsoft's new patent on what can only be described as the ancient and ubiquitous "<tt>sudo</tt>" command.
+[[User:Sparks|Eric Christensen]] outlined<ref>http://fedora-sparks.blogspot.com/2009/11/documenting-fedora-12-or-what-docs.html</ref> twelve different types of documentation available with Fedora 12, from Release Notes to Security and Virtualization guides.
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