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[[User:Mchua|Mel Chua]] wondered<ref>http://blog.melchua.com/2010/06/19/partial-adventure-in-learning-about-message-threading/</ref> how e-mail message threading works and how Message IDs are generated.
[[User:Jdieter|Jonathan Dieter]] mentioned<ref>http://cedarandthistle.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/deltarpms-mostly-fixed-in-fedora/</ref> that deltarpms should be working again now for Fedora 13.


The Red Hat Press Office mentioned<ref>http://press.redhat.com/2010/06/18/%E2%80%9Copen-your-world%E2%80%9D-opens-many-eyes-to-the-power-of-open-source/</ref> some of the happenings at the Opensource.com's "Open Your World, an online forum exploring how the open source ideals of participation, collaboration, community, transparency and meritocracy are applied beyond the technology industry."
[[BenjaminOtte|Benjamin Otte]] analyzed<ref>http://blogs.gnome.org/otte/2010/06/26/fun-with-benchmarks/</ref> the performance of Cairo with a number of different graphics chipset and driver configurations. The results may surprise you.


[[User:Skvidal|Seth Vidal]] suggested<ref>http://skvidal.wordpress.com/2010/06/18/yum-history-command-and-other-docs/</ref> that you should check out the features of yum's new (in F12/F13) "history" command.
[[MairinDuffy|Máirín Duffy]] found<ref>http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/06/26/some-geeky-comics/</ref> a bunch of amusing geeky comic strips. But more seriously, Máirín identified<ref>http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/06/28/first-fedora-design-ninja-identified/</ref> the first "Fedora Design Bounty Ninja". "Jef responded to our first Fedora Design Bi-Weekly Bounty just a couple of hours after it was posted, and he did an amazing job putting together a 6-page layout for the Fedora 13 feature profiles, carefully adhering to all of the Fedora branding guidelines and providing all of his source work!"


[[User:Reality|Luke Slater]] discussed<ref>http://dinosaur-os.com/post/719778908</ref> how to handle Fedora's microblogging accounts and different languages and cultures. "This is a post in response to the discussions that have been going on in relation to what exactly we should do with the Fedora microblogging accounts and one of the subjects that I’m rather concerned about is how we’re going to deal with different languages and cultures."
[[User:Adamwill|Adam Williamson]] reminded<ref>http://www.happyassassin.net/2010/06/26/a-quick-reminder-on-64-bit-flash/</ref> Flash users running 64-bit systems how they can use Flash Player, now that the 64-bit downloads have been pulled.


[[User:Rjones|Richard W.M. Jones]] developed<ref>http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/06/17/concept-for-a-graphical-libguestfs-browser/</ref> a comcept for a graphical libguestfs browser using Lablgtk2 and OCaml.
[[User:Ajamison|Andrew Vermilya Jamison]] outled<ref>http://blogs.andyjamison.com/andy/2010/06/26/fedora-13-way-more-then-hype-part-2-general-usability/</ref> a few of the exciting new features of Fedora 13.


[[RobEscriva|Rob Escriva]] wrote<ref>http://robescriva.com/2010/06/16/bootstrapping-python-projects/</ref> about bootstrapping Python projects. "I'll be sharing how I use the standard library's doctest module, Georg Brandl's sphinx package, Logilab's PyLint program and Ned Batchelder's coverage module to keep the number of inconsistencies and defects in both my code and documentation low."
[[User:Lennart|Lennart Poettering]] suggested<ref>http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/ids.html</ref> a number of sources of data that could be used under Linux to help generate unique identifiers. "When programming software that cooperates with software running on behalf of other users, other sessions or other computers it is often necessary to work with unique identifiers. These can be bound to various hardware and software objects as well as lifetimes. Often, when people look for such an ID to use they pick the wrong one because semantics and lifetime or the IDs are not clear."
   
Lennart also wrote<ref>http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/locking.html</ref> a<ref>http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/locking2.html</ref> pair of articles on handling locking under Linux (and the sad state of locking under Linux in general).


[[User:Ardchoille42|Ian MacGregor]] had<ref>http://ardchoille42.blogspot.com/2010/06/nice-fallbacks.html</ref> some upgrade issues. "Just because xorg isn't working doesn't mean you can't get things done. Today I proved that you don't even need xorg to be able to surf the web, check email, download files, chat in IRC and have multiple windows open - though it's nice to have a working xorg. Keep some CLI apps installed and learn how to use the command line.. you never know when all of this may come in handy."
[[LuisVilla|Luis Villa]] dissected<ref>http://tieguy.org/blog/2010/06/28/first-thoughts-on-bilski/</ref> the US Supreme Court Bilski ruling. "I'm afraid that at the end of this brief train ride, my only firm conclusion can be that the real winners here are patent lawyers - this decision creates no new certainties, only uncertainties, which will encourage patenters to spend more money patenting things, and the rest of us to waste time and energy worrying about the problem - time and energy that should have been spent on innovating..."


[[User:Sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]] covered<ref>http://fedoranext.wordpress.com/2010/06/16/kyle-needs-more-alcohol/</ref> a few of the new features to be expected in Fedora 14.
The Red Hat Press Office announced<ref>http://press.redhat.com/2010/06/29/introducing-fedora-project-leader-jared-smith/</ref> that [[User:Jsmith|Jared Smith]] will become the new Fedora Project Leader. [[User:Pfrields|Paul W. Frields]] posted<ref>http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=3259</ref> a few words about passing on the baton to Jared.
 
[[Peter Hutterer|Peter Hutterer]] summarized<ref>http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/06/incomplete-roundup-of-touchpad-features.html</ref> the touchpad features now available in xorg. Peter also explained<ref>http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/06/keyboard-configuration-its-complicated.html</ref> some of the common misconceptions and issues about keyboard input under X.
 
[[User:Herlo|Clint Savage]] continued<ref>http://sexysexypenguins.com/2010/06/15/combating-apathy-in-free-and-open-source-communities-part-3/</ref> the discussion of "Combating Apathy in [Free and Open Source] Communities".
 
[[User:Markmc|Mark McLoughlin]] announced<ref>http://blogs.gnome.org/markmc/2010/06/21/rest-api-for-rhev-m/</ref> a new REST API for the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager. "The only current API for RHEV-M is a Windows Powershell plugin which provides a perfectly fine scripting interface for RHEV-M on Windows, but isn’t so easy to call remotely or to integrate with another application. By adding a REST API, we’re adding an integration interface which we hope everyone will find convenient to use."
 
[[User:Mso|Martin Sourada]] provided<ref>http://mso-chronicles.blogspot.com/2010/06/f14-artwork-update.html</ref> an update on artwork for Fedora 14.
 
[[User:Heffer|Felix Kaechele]] explained<ref>http://fetzig.org/2010/06/13/vuvuzela-filter-using-fedora/</ref> how to filter out those annoying vuvuzelas using Fedora.
 
[[User:Kam|Kam Salisbury]] found<ref>http://sites.google.com/site/kamreefsalisbury/blog/cygwinworksonwindows7</ref> that Cygwin under Windows 7 has some minor networking issues. "Network communication also works, if you edit the Windows 7 firewall outbound rules to allow cygwin to communicate."
 
[[User:Overholt|Andrew Overholt]] announced<ref>http://overholt.ca/wp/?p=177</ref> the availability of Linux Tools 0.6 as part of the Helios Eclipse simultaneous release.


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Revision as of 21:32, 29 June 2010

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

General

Jonathan Dieter mentioned[1] that deltarpms should be working again now for Fedora 13.

Benjamin Otte analyzed[2] the performance of Cairo with a number of different graphics chipset and driver configurations. The results may surprise you.

Máirín Duffy found[3] a bunch of amusing geeky comic strips. But more seriously, Máirín identified[4] the first "Fedora Design Bounty Ninja". "Jef responded to our first Fedora Design Bi-Weekly Bounty just a couple of hours after it was posted, and he did an amazing job putting together a 6-page layout for the Fedora 13 feature profiles, carefully adhering to all of the Fedora branding guidelines and providing all of his source work!"

Adam Williamson reminded[5] Flash users running 64-bit systems how they can use Flash Player, now that the 64-bit downloads have been pulled.

Andrew Vermilya Jamison outled[6] a few of the exciting new features of Fedora 13.

Lennart Poettering suggested[7] a number of sources of data that could be used under Linux to help generate unique identifiers. "When programming software that cooperates with software running on behalf of other users, other sessions or other computers it is often necessary to work with unique identifiers. These can be bound to various hardware and software objects as well as lifetimes. Often, when people look for such an ID to use they pick the wrong one because semantics and lifetime or the IDs are not clear."

Lennart also wrote[8] a[9] pair of articles on handling locking under Linux (and the sad state of locking under Linux in general).

Luis Villa dissected[10] the US Supreme Court Bilski ruling. "I'm afraid that at the end of this brief train ride, my only firm conclusion can be that the real winners here are patent lawyers - this decision creates no new certainties, only uncertainties, which will encourage patenters to spend more money patenting things, and the rest of us to waste time and energy worrying about the problem - time and energy that should have been spent on innovating..."

The Red Hat Press Office announced[11] that Jared Smith will become the new Fedora Project Leader. Paul W. Frields posted[12] a few words about passing on the baton to Jared.