Announcements
In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project.
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Contributing Writer: Max Spevack
Release Engineering Email Trac Queue Disabled
Jesse Keating announces[1]:
"We have our first development freeze of the Fedora 10 cycle tomorrow. This is the alpha freeze, which is non-blocking. Release Engineering will be making a freeze inside the buildsystem of tomorrow's rawhide content. This will be the basis of the Fedora 10 Alpha release."
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2008-July/msg00008.html
Announcing the Fedora OLPC Special Interest Group
Greg DeKoenigsberg announces[1]:
"Thus, I am proud to announce the formation of the Fedora OLPC Special Interest Group. Our mission: to provide the OLPC project with a strong, sustainable, scalable, community-driven base platform for innovation.
Immediate Goals:
1. To identify and take responsible ownership of as many OLPC base packages as possible.
2. To maintain an excellent Sugar environment for Fedora, including a dedicated Sugar spin.
3. To identify useful opportunities for collaboration (infrastructure, localization, etc.)"
[1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-July/msg00009.html
Fedora Unity releases updated Fedora 9 Re-Spin
Jeroen van Meeuwen informs us[1]:
"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."
[1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-July/msg00007.html