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
Gerard Braad installed[1] the Maemo 5 SDK on Fedora 12. However, there were a few minor quirks with the installation process to be aware of.
Steven Moix compared[2] the Maemo platform (Nokia N900) with Android (Hero).
Richard W.M. Jones decided to take a look[3] into the Fedora and Ubuntu Live CDs to see if it was possible "to quickly create a Fedora or Ubuntu “all-defaults” virtual machine." Part 2 continues[4] with some optimization that drastically reduce the time taken to install (one 16 minutes operation in particular ends up taking 2 1/2 minutes after optimization).
[[User:Overholt|Andrew Overholt] announced[5] release 0.4.0 of the Eclipse Linux Tools, complete with SystemTap call graphs, GProf integration and better autotools support.
John Palmier explained[6] "why do we care about push messaging"? (in the form of a comic strip). This is all in preparation for a presentation on AMQP and qpid for the upcoming FUDCon.
Karsten Wade discussed[7] "building a business around sustainable open source engineering". Karsten wanted to "lay out a definition for sustainable open source engineering, provide some examples you may not have thought of, and find out who else is doing a good job at it (or trying to, at the very least!)"
Mike McGrath says[8]: "I'm happy to announce today we finally have context based sponsorship listings. What does this mean? Well, when you go to http://fedoraproject.org/ you end up hitting one of several reverse proxy servers. These hosts are located all over the world by different hosting providers."
Pavol Rusnak took a look[9] at community engagement in the OpenSUSE and Fedora communities. Many pie graphs ensued.
Ray Strode talked[10] about the point in the bootup process where it transitions from Plymouth to X. "f you haven’t seen it, when boot up finishes, plymouth settles down the boot splash to a transitionable animation frame, then the mouse pointer shows up, and GDM’s background cross fades in while the login window maps and expands to show frequently logged in users. In the best case, this transition all happens without any flicker, resolution changes, black intermediate screens, or console text showing up."
- ↑ http://blog.gbraad.nl/2009/11/maemo-5-sdk-on-fedora-12.html
- ↑ http://www.alphatek.info/2009/11/22/maemo-or-android-n900-versus-hero/
- ↑ http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/prebuilt-distributions-part-1/
- ↑ http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/prebuilt-distributions-part-2/
- ↑ http://overholt.ca/wp/?p=139
- ↑ http://www.j5live.com/2009/11/23/fudcon-the-amqp-story/
- ↑ http://iquaid.org/2009/11/23/building-a-business-around-sustainable-open-source-engineering/
- ↑ http://mmcgrath.livejournal.com/31686.html
- ↑ http://stick.gk2.sk/blog/2009/11/fedora-and-opensuse-community-engagement/
- ↑ http://blogs.gnome.org/halfline/2009/11/28/plymouth-%E2%9F%B6-x-transition/