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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

General

Luca Foppiano described[1] how to configure Twinkle, the QT VoIP client, to work with Fedora Talk.

Peter Hutterer continued[2] the XI2 Recipes series with "the common input events and the data they include". Peter also explained[3][4] some additional details about new XLib APIs to handle cookies and associated data.

Paul W. Frields wrote[5] about configuring and optimizing postfix for remote/disconnected operation.

Kevin Higgins posted[6] photos from the Vancouver Fedora 11 Release Party.

Michael Tiemann questioned[7] the Association for Competitive Technology's recent accusations against the European Commission "of having a bias in favor of open source."

Greg DeKoenigsberg suggested[8] that "creating a strong 'patch culture'" for Spacewalk (and by extension, open source projects in general) can be accomplished by setting a strong example. "People behave as they see others behave."

Luke Macken posted[9] some pretty pictures of Fedora 9 package update metrics.

Seth Vidal came up with[10] a list of "critical path" packages "that require special care when updating in rawhide and releases". For more information, see the Critical Path Packages Proposal.

Daniel Walsh added[11] another SELinux how-to, to the ongoing series, this time fixing a "denial message about vpnc_t trying to read a file labeled user_home_t."

Matthew Garrett chimed in[12] about RMS' recent comments regarding the "cult of the virgin of emacs".

Máirín Duffy displayed[13] mockups of a net system-config-selinux dialog mockup.

Marc Ferguson instructed[14] how to install Chromium (the Open Source project version of Google's Chrome web browser) on Fedora 11.

James Laska called out[15] for anyone interested in joining the Fedora QA efforts, and pointed out some exemplary guides on the Fedora Wiki to assist in debugging particular projects.

Karsten Wade explained[16] some background around the Fedora Infrastructure team's implementation of Zikula, a new content management system that will be used for various Fedora teams.

Andrew Vermilya Jamison reviewed[17] KDE4 on Fedora, from the perspective of a Gnome user.

Julian Aloofi reviewed[18] Hannah Montana Linux. Scary.