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Planet Fedora

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

http://planet.fedoraproject.org

Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin

General

Dave Jones answers[*] some frequently asked questions and common misconceptions regarding Virtual Memory in Linux

[*] http://kernelslacker.livejournal.com/132396.html

Tom Tromey continued[*] his excellent series on scripting and extending GDB with Python, including some PyGTK widgetry[*]

[*] http://tromey.com/blog/?p=548

[*] http://tromey.com/blog/?p=550

Michael DeHaan contemplates the complexity of software projects and how to encourage new people to get involved and contribute. "Projects that have a lot of complex interrelationships and need a lot of experience with the codebase (that is acquired over a long period of time) are less apt to attract casual contributions"[*]

[*] http://www.michaeldehaan.net/?p=798

Jesse Keating announced[*] a new Fedora Hosted project, Offtrac: "Offtrac is my attempt at creating a python library for interacting with trac via xmlrpc." The project can already perform a number of tasks including querying, retrieving and creating tickets and milestones.

[*] http://jkeating.livejournal.com/66433.html

Kulbir Saini presented[*] some ideas for hacking a Linux install to make it boot faster

[*] http://fedora.co.in/content/how-boot-your-fedora-faster

More FOSS.IN

Folks are still posting photos and writeups of their experience at FOSS.IN. It really sounds like an amazing time was had by all.