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Linus Torvalds:

‘I’ve used different distributions over the years. Right now I happen to use Fedora 9 on most of the computers I have, which really boils down to the fact that Fedora had fairly good support for PowerPC back when I used that, so I grew used to it. But I actually don’t care too much about the distribution, as long as it makes it easy to install and keep reasonably up-to-date. I care about the kernel and a few programs, and the set of programs I really care about is actually fairly small.

And when it comes to distributions, ease of installation has actually been one of my main issues - I’m a technical person, but I have a very specific area of interest, and I don’t want to fight the rest. So the only distributions I have actively avoided are the ones that are known to be “overly technical” - like the ones that encourage you to compile your own programs etc.

Yeah, I can do it, but it kind of defeats the whole point of a distribution for me. So I like the ones that have a name of being easy to use. I’ve never used plain Debian, for example, but I like Ubuntu. And before Debian people attack me - yeah, I know, I know, it’s supposedly much simpler and easier to install these days. But it certainly didn’t use to be, so I never had any reason to go for it. ‘

Hi all,

The results of the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo)
election are in: Bill Nottingham, Kevin Fenzi, Dennis Gilmore, Brian
Pepple, and David Woodhouse have been elected to full two-release terms,
and Jarod Wilson, Josh Boyer, Jon Stanley and Karsten Hopp have been
elected to a one-release term.

The full GPG-signed information from our election coordinator, Nigel
Jones, including vote totals, is located here:
http://bpepple.fedorapeople.org/fesco_results/fescof10results.txt.asc

• Read more: FESCo Election Results

We have several options for the Fedora 10 codename, and you get to help
decide which we use!

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/about/10

is the URL to cast your vote. Log in with your Fedora Account name and
password. As long as you have signed the CLA and belong to one
additional group in the Fedora Account System, you can cast your vote.

Voting will end and be tallied at 23:59:59 28 July 2008 UTC.

josh

The engineers at OLPC are busy building an educational experience for the kids of the world.  They are basing their excellent work on Fedora.

Their time is stretched perilously thin.  Every hour an overworked OLPC engineer spends doing Fedora work is an hour they could be spending doing something else.  We in the Fedora community can therefore have a huge, direct, and immediate impact on the success of the OLPC project.

• Read more: Announcing the Fedora OLPC Special Interest Group

Fedora Weekly News Issue 135

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 135 for the week ending July 19, 2008.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/LatestIssue

Fedora Weekly News keep you updated with the latest issues, events and activities in the fedora community.

If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our ‘join’ page. Being a Fedora Weekly News beat writer gives you a chance to work on one of our community’s most important sources of news, and can be done in only about 1 hour per week of your time.

We are still looking for beat writers to cover the highlights of Fedora Marketing each week and to summarize the Fedora Events and Meetings that happened during each week.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join

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- pascal

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pcalarco

The Fedora Unity Project is proud to announce the release of new ISO Re-Spins (DVD) of Fedora 9.

These Re-Spin ISOs are based on the officially released Fedora 9 installation media and include all updates released as of July 18th, 2008. The ISO images are available for i386 and x86_64 architectures via Jigdo starting Sunday, July 20th, 2008 (or, “right now”).

We were unable to include CD Image sets this time, due to problems we are experiencing ordering the packages and sorting them amongst the different discs in the set. A default installation would have required all discs.

With this particular Re-Spin though, we address the following problems:

- #445517, Anaconda crashed during selecting packages (installation mode); Translation of plural in Russian made anaconda fail during the selection of packages, if the installation was done in Russian

- #445974, minstg2 installs fail - missing /usr/sbin/lspci

We would like to give a special thanks to the following for testing this respin within 2 days

- Harley-D             Dana Hoffman Jr
- zcat                 Jason Farrell
- Sonar_Guy            Scott Glaser
- Southern_Gentleman   Ben Williams
- kanarip              Jeroen van Meeuwen

Fedora Unity has taken up the Re-Spin task to provide the community with the chance to install Fedora with recent updates already included.
These updates might otherwise comprise more than 1.91 GByte of downloads for a full install, and an additional 265.69 MByte for pulled in dependencies.

This is a community project, for and by the community. You can contribute to the community by joining our test process.

A full list of bugs, packages and changelogs that have been updated in this Re-Spin can be reviewed on:

http://spins.fedoraunity.org/changelogs/20080718/

Go to http://spins.fedoraunity.org/spins to get the bits!

If you are interested in helping with the testing or mirroring efforts, please contact the Fedora Unity team.

Contact information is available at http://fedoraunity.org/ or the #fedora-unity channel on the Freenode IRC Network (irc.freenode.net).
To report bugs in the Re-Spins please use http://bugs.fedoraunity.org/

Kind regards,

The Fedora Unity Team

Hi Fedora,

The next FUDCon will take place in Brno, Czech Republic, from September 5 - 7, 2008.

The main conference day and social event will be on Saturday (to attract the most people), with hackfest days on Friday and Sunday.  FUDCon is always free to attend, no matter where in the world it is located.

To sign up or get more information, please visit:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConBrno2008

If you cannot attend this FUDCon, do not despair!  We expect to hold a FUDCon somewhere in Asia or India later in 2008, and in multiple locations worldwide in 2009.

–Max

Since I did a look at Ubuntu’s early concept art and since I am usually very impressed by Fedora’s final art, I decided that it would make sense to take a look at what has appeared on the Fedora Art Team wiki. I have actually been waiting a few days to do this, since, as of just a few days ago, there were not enough submissions that I liked to talk about. My point is that there has been a new theme submission every one to two days, which is really impressive. Now on to the art:
Read and look more at Linux Loop

The Fedora News Project is pleased to announce the availability of
Fedora Weekly News Issue 134.

= Fedora Weekly News Issue 134 =

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 134 for the week ending July 12, 2008.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue134

Fedora Weekly News keep you updated with the latest issues, events and
activities in the fedora community.

If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see
our ‘join’ page. Being a Fedora Weekly News beat writer gives you a
chance to work on one of our community’s most important sources of news,
and can be done in only about 1 hour per week of your time.

We are still looking for beat writers to cover the highlights of Fedora
Marketing each week and to summarize the Fedora Events and Meetings that
happened during each week.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join

View the complete issue of Fedora Weekly News on our wiki:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue134

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Regards,
Huzaifa Sidhpurwala, RHCE, CCNA (IRC: huzaifas)

I have been quiet about Linux this week because I have been busy trying several new versions. In the process, I have learned quite a bit more, and started to think about the philosophy behind Linux, operating system choices, and Free / Open Source software in general.

The first thing that became clear to me this week, although I already knew it on a more superficial level, was that Linux distributions run across a sort of a scale from easy to install and use to complex to install and requiring a lot of manual setup and configuration.

Read more at ZDNet

The Fedora News Project is pleased to announce the availability of
Fedora Weekly News Issue 133.

= Fedora Weekly News Issue 133 =

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 133 for the week ending July 5, 2008.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue133

If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see
our ‘join’ page. Being a Fedora Weekly News beat writer gives you a
chance to work on one of our community’s most important sources of news,
and can be done in only about 1 hour per week of your time.

We are still looking for beat writers to cover the highlights of Fedora
Marketing and summarize the Fedora Events and Meetings that happened
during each week.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join

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View the complete issue of Fedora Weekly News on our wiki:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue133

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Regards,
Huzaifa Sidhpurwala, RHCE, CCNA (IRC: huzaifas)

The Fedora News Project is pleased to announce the availability of
Fedora Weekly News Issue 132.

= Fedora Weekly News Issue 132 =

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 132 for the week ending June 8, 2008.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue132

If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see
our ‘join’ page. Being a Fedora Weekly News beat writer gives you a
chance to work on one of our community’s most important sources of news,
and can be done in only about 1 hour per week of your time.

We are looking for beat writers to cover the highlights of Fedora Planet
each week, Fedora Security Advisories, and to summarize the Fedora
Events and Meetings that happened during each week.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join.

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View the complete issue of Fedora Weekly News on our wiki:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue132

- –
Regards,
Huzaifa Sidhpurwala, RHCE, CCNA (IRC: huzaifas)

As announced earlier[1], Fedora 7 has reached its end of life for
updates. Fedora 8 will continue to receive updates until approximately
one month after the release of Fedora 10.

= = =
[1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-April/msg00013.html

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PostgreSQL New RPM Sets
2008-06-14

Versions: 8.3.3, 8.2.9, 8.1.13, 8.0.17, 7.4.21

Set label: 8.3.3-1PGDG, 8.2.9-1PGDG,, 8.1.13-1PGDG 8.0.17-1PGDG, 7.4.21-1PGDG
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Release Info:

PostgreSQL RPM Building Project has released RPMs for new PostgreSQL
minor releases, and they are available in main FTP site and its mirrors.
Users should upgrade to these versions as soon as possible.

• Read more: New RPM Sets for Fedora / Red Hat Enterprise Linux / CentOS

We are pleased to announce the release of Fedora Directory Server 1.1.1.  This release is primarily a bug fix release, but does contain some new features, mostly to support freeIPA.

Binary packages are available for Fedora 7, 8, 9, and rawhide.  NOTE:  Fedora 6/RHEL5 binaries are not yet available.  They will be shortly.

How to upgrade:

yum upgrade fedora-ds-base

No further setup should be required.  This should restart the server - if not, a manual restart (service dirsrv restart) is required for the new code to take effect.

* Release Notes - http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_Notes

The Fedora News Project is pleased to announce the availability of Fedora Weekly News Issue 130.

= Fedora Weekly News Issue 130 =

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 130 for the week ending June 8, 2008.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue130

If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our ‘join’ page.  Being a Fedora Weekly News beat writer gives you a chance to work on one of our community’s most important sources of news, and can be done in only about 1 hour per week of your time.

Last week, we recruited a new Marketing beat writer, Pascal Calarco!

We are still looking for beat writers to cover the highlights of Fedora Planet each week, Fedora Security Advisories, and to summarize the Fedora Events and Meetings that happened during each week.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join.

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View the complete issue of Fedora Weekly News on our wiki:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue130

Last week we released Phoronix Test Suite 1.0 and one of the article requests we received as a result was to do a side-by-side comparison between the popular desktop Linux distributions. Ask and you shall receive. Today we have up 28 test results from Ubuntu 8.04, Fedora 9, and Mandriva 2008.1.

Read more at Phoronix

The Fedora News Project is pleased to announce the availability of Fedora Weekly News Issue 129.

= Fedora Weekly News Issue 129 =

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 129 for the week ending June 1, 2008.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue129

Fedora Weekly News returns after a several week absence.  We are undergoing a little bit of turnover in our staff.  If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our ‘join’ page. Being a Fedora Weekly News beat writer gives you a chance to work on one of our community’s most important sources of news, and can be done in only about 1 hour per week of your time.

In particular, we are looking for beat writers to cover Fedora Marketing, the highlights of Fedora Planet, Fedora Security Advisories, and to summarize the Fedora Events and Meetings that happened during each week.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join.

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View the complete issue of Fedora Weekly News on our wiki:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue129

Hi all,

As we begin the homestretch around finalizing FUDCon Boston, I wanted to clarify a few things about the importance of pre-registering, and also about the travel and hotel sponsorships.

FUDCon Boston has a number of constraints on its budget, including:

1) Signage at the Hynes Convention center during the two days we are there.

2) Snacks and drinks at the Hynes Convention center, only for those who have pre-registered on the FUDCon page (and who will therefore receive some sort of badge).

3) Tshirts, again, only guaranteed for those who have pre-registered, though there may be extras, depending on the way the price points break down.

4) Breakfast and lunch at the Saturday BarCamp at Boston University, again for those who have pre-registered.

5) Security and facilities at Boston University.

6) FUDPub (space and 1 round of drinks free).

7) Travel and hotel sponsorship, as appropriate.  We have made it a habit of sponsoring community travel and lodging at the last 3 (including this one) North American FUDCons, at least.  We are doing it again this time.  The number of people whom we would like to sponsor is always higher than the number that our budget allows us to sponsor.

For FUDCon Boston, all of the sponsorships that we are doing have already been finalized, and I’ll be re-confirming that with each person in the next 48 hours, but you already know who you are.

We’ve been able to sponsor a number of community members for this FUDCon, all from North America.  Since we are globalizing FUDCons this year, we plan to try to spend our sponsorship money on people who are already geographically close to each location, to maximize efficiency. As such, European contributors will be sponsored for the Europe FUDCon in September, and Asia/India/Australia contributors will be sponsored for the APAC FUDCon currently in planning stages for next January.

We’ve currently got 97 people pre-registered for FUDCon Boston, which is a great number, since past FUDCons have suggested that about 50 people show up day-of who didn’t bother to pre-register.

If there are any questions about FUDCon Boston, please contact myself and Paul Frields.

Looking forward to seeing all of you,
Max