Fedora Weekly News Issue 78
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Written by Thomas Chung on 2007-02-26
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Welcome to our issue number 78 of Fedora Weekly News (FWN), the weekly newsletter for the Fedora community. The latest issue can always be found here.
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Announcing Desktop User Guide
John Babich (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JohnBabich) announces in fedora-announce-list (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2007-February/msg00008.html):
The Desktop User Guide is here to help you accomplish specific tasks with the desktop applications. It is written for individuals who are unfamiliar with the default Fedora Desktop and who may be running their first Linux desktop.
Wiki is now upgraded!
Mike McGrath (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MikeMcGrath) announces in fedora-announce-list (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2007-February/msg00012.html):
The wiki is now upgraded! There's bound to be minor odds and ends to fix up over the coming days, I ask that if anyone finds something broken they email me and I'll start fixing issues one by one.
FudCon Videos are now available
Mike McGrath (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MikeMcGrath) also announces in fedora-announce-list (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2007-February/msg00010.html):
The FudCon videos from Boston 2007 are now ready for torrent download at: http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
In a related note, Max Spevack (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MaxSpevack) has written an article for Red Hat Magazine (http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/02/20/fedora-corneron-location-at-fudcon-boston-part-i/).
Live from FOSDEM
Max Spevack (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MaxSpevack) also shares his experiences of FOSDEM 2007 (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/FOSDEM2007) in Brussel, Belgium via his blogs:
- 2007-02-24 08:06 am - live from fosdem (http://spevack.livejournal.com/9394.html)
- 2007-02-25 04:27 am - fosdem 2.0 (http://spevack.livejournal.com/9701.html)
- 2007-02-25 05:26 pm - fosdem, the end (http://spevack.livejournal.com/10144.html)
ESR and Fedora
Rahul Sundaram (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RahulSundaram) reports in fedora-marketing-list (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2007-February/msg00053.html) regarding recent ESR's post on fedora-devel-list (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-February/msg01006.html).
- ZDNet.co.uk: Anger as key Red Hat developer quits (http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39286050,00.htm)
- LXer.com: Fedora Devs Say Goodbye To Eric Raymond (http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/81919/index.html)
- LXer.com: Carmony Says Raymond Mail Not Tied to Linspire (http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/81995/index.html)
- LinuxToday.com: Editor's Note: Hard Choices (http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2007022302826OPCY)
Security Week in Review 2007-02-18
Josh Bressers (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JoshBressers) reports in his blog (http://www.bress.net/blog/archives/2007/02/25.html):
Last week was an insanely busy week. There was a critical Ekiga flaw discovered along with a Firefox update on Friday.
- ekiga/gnomemeeting - Fixed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4, FC5 (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-February/msg00119.html), FC6 (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-February/msg00120.html)
- php - Fixed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, and 4, FC6 (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-February/msg00118.html)
Fedora Weekly Reports 2007-02-19
We have a new effort in place to report The Board news as well as Meeting Minutes from each sub-project for Fedora community to gather information on the happenings in the Fedora universe in a easily digestible and referenceable format.
Fedora Core 5 and 6 Updates
During the week of February 19 - February 25, Fedora Project released 06 Fedora Core 5 Updates (http://fedoranews.org/cms/FC5) including 01 Security Advisories.
During the week of February 19 - February 25, Fedora Project released 28 Fedora Core 6 Updates (http://fedoranews.org/cms/FC6) including 02 Security Advisories.
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