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Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 146 for the week ending October 12, 2008.
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 148 for the week ending October 19, 2008.


http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue147
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue148


In this issue of FWN, Max Spevack announces the Fedora Unity's latest offerings of Fedora 9 re-spins, provides detail on James Lasker's Fedora Test Day. and covers the goings on in the Fedora community blogosphere, with coverage of three contributions about the Red Hat Government Users and Developers Conference, and various tech tidbits around Fedora through the week. Svetoslav Chukov covers two stories in our marketing beat, including Intel linux developer work on building a modified Fedora install on an Asus EEE that boots in an amazing five seconds. Oisin Feeley again provides amazing coverage of Fedora development, including discussions of unsigned Rawhide packages as an attack vector, procedures for renaming Fedora packages, a discussion of the trash-cli package and its implications for generic naming issues, and much more.  Jason Taylor brings us up to date with the documentation project, covering Fedora 10 release notes, and discussion of a possible fedora-wiki mailing list.  Runa Bhattacharjee covers happenings in the translation team for us, discussing release note and documentation translation topics, and translations to the virt-* modules.  Huzaifa Sidhpurwala covers the Infrastructure beat again for us, with a story on the infrastructure team's consolidation over the past few months and news of a new bapp class of servers that is under deployment.  Nicu Buculei covers all of the great work going on in the Fedora Art team, and details the discussion of Fedora 10 CD/DVD sleeves this week.  David Nalley details for us the Fedora 8 and 9 security advisories for the week, and Dale Bewley gets us current with the many happenings on the four virtualization lists he covers -- the Enterprise Management Tools, Fedora Xen, library virtualization and oVirt development lists, including stories on importing appliance raw disk images, support for F10 domU on RHEL5.2 dom0, support for KVM migration, amongst others.    
The preparations for Fedora 10 and beyond are reflected in this weeks issue: "Announcements" alerts us to "Fedora Test Day"; "Documentation" conveys a request for "Lead Writers"; "Developments" examines "Review-o-matic" which may help triage our ever-expanding package repositories; "Translation" explains the "String Freeze Breaks" occasioned by the imminent release of Fedora 10; "Artwork" dives into icon controversy with "No Echo for Fedora 10 CD/DVD"; the latest "SecurityAdvisories" are worth checking out; and finally "Virtualization" shares some tips on "Starting Guests from a Desktop Icon" and the latest "Experimental User Mode Linux Driver".


If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[1].
If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[1].

Revision as of 14:09, 20 October 2008

Fedora Weekly News Issue 148

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 148 for the week ending October 19, 2008.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue148

The preparations for Fedora 10 and beyond are reflected in this weeks issue: "Announcements" alerts us to "Fedora Test Day"; "Documentation" conveys a request for "Lead Writers"; "Developments" examines "Review-o-matic" which may help triage our ever-expanding package repositories; "Translation" explains the "String Freeze Breaks" occasioned by the imminent release of Fedora 10; "Artwork" dives into icon controversy with "No Echo for Fedora 10 CD/DVD"; the latest "SecurityAdvisories" are worth checking out; and finally "Virtualization" shares some tips on "Starting Guests from a Desktop Icon" and the latest "Experimental User Mode Linux Driver".

If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[1].

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