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== Planet Fedora ==
== Planet Fedora ==


In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora<ref>http://planet.fedoraproject.org</ref> - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide.
This is the Planet Fedora section, covering news from planet.fedoraproject.org[http://planet.fedoraproject.org], a collection of blogs from Fedora users spanning the globe.  


Contributing Writer: [[User:Abatkin|Adam Batkin]]
Contributing Writer: [[User:Jbraun|Joel Braun]]


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=== Events ===


=== General ===
====FudCon Pune 2011====
[[user:kishan|Kishan Goyal]] posted on his experience on day 2 at FudCon Pune<ref>http://kishangoyal.co.cc/post/12549697509/fudcon-pune-11-day-2</ref>.


[[User:Mso|Martin Sourada]] took a look<ref>http://mso-chronicles.blogspot.com/2009/10/mark-difference-ugly-fonts-in-fedora.html</ref> at font antialiasing and what makes fonts look ugly. In a further post, Martin answered<ref>http://mso-chronicles.blogspot.com/2009/10/answer-to-why-is-my-design-blurry.html</ref> the more general question "Why is my design blurry?"
[[user:jsimon|Joerg Simon]] posted pictures<ref>http://kitall.blogspot.com/2011/11/fudcon-pune-2011-travel-und-event.html</ref> of the event.


In the continuing journey of <tt>libguestfs</tt> [[User:Rjones|Richard W.M. Jones]] added<ref>http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/libhivex-windows-registry-hive-extractor-library/</ref>,<ref>http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/hivexget-get-values-from-a-windows-registry-hive/</ref>,<ref>http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/virt-win-reg-get-at-the-windows-registry-in-your-windows-guests/</ref> support for working with the Windows registry form a Linux guest. Apparently you can also<ref>http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/fuse-support-for-libguestfs/</ref> mount guest filesystems on the host filesystem using FUSE (the example provided even mounts a Windows guest's NTFS filesystem to a Linux host).
[[user:izhar|Izhar Firdaus]] wrote about his experience<ref>http://blog.kagesenshi.org/2011/11/fudcon-pune-2011.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ShadowLogs%2FFedora+%28%3A%3A+Shadow+Logs%3A%3A+Fedora%29#!/2011/11/fudcon-pune-2011.html</ref> at FudCon, as well as some thoughts on the atmosphere of the event.


[[User:Timlau|Tim Lauridsen]] demonstrated<ref>http://fedora.rasmil.dk/blog/?p=167</ref> a new feature of <tt>yum</tt> in Fedora 12: history, "that makes it possible to see what happened in part of a transaction and redo/undo past transactions."
[[user:suchakra|Suchakra]] also blogged on Fudcon Pune<ref>http://suchakra.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/fudcon%e2%86%94funcon-pune-2011/</ref>.


[[User:Pfrields|Paul W. Frields]] outlined<ref>http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=2837</ref> some of the new features to be found in the Fedora 12 beta. and encouraged<ref>http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=2846</ref> anyone who finds an issue to report it! Don't assume that someone else will have already filed a bug.
[[user:kushal|Kushal Das]] posted photos<ref>http://kushaldas.in/2011/11/10/photoset-from-fudcon-pune-2011/</ref> of the event to his blog.
===Fedora Community===


Paul also reprinted<ref>http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=2848</ref> a posting from the Fedora Advisory Board mailing list about the mission of Fedora, its goals and target audience.
The release of Fedora 16 has been the main topic of the blogroll recently, and it's fair to say that it's being greeted with open arms by many of the users.


[[Peter Hutterer|Peter Hutterer]] explained<ref>http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/10/x11r75-released-but-what-is-it.html</ref> what goes in to the X Windowing system release (now that X11R7.5 has been released).
[[user:jjmartinez|Juanjo Martinez]] blogged on his first impressions of F16, calling it an "impressive release"<ref>http://engbblog.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/welcome-fedora-16/</ref>.


[[MairinDuffy|Máirín Duffy]] displayed<ref>http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/fedora-12s-default-wallpaper/</ref> the new default wallpaper slated for Fedora 12. Shiny!
===General===


[[RichardHughes|Richard Hughes]] built<ref>http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2009/10/28/gnome-color-manager/</ref> a tool (still in its early stages) to deal with ICC Color management under GNOME.
[[User:adamwill|Adam Williamson]] posted about <ref>http://www.happyassassin.net/2011/11/10/stupid-fedora-tricks/</ref>starting work on Fedora 17, and experimentation with the new kernel in a virtualized environment.
 
[[User:Alexh|Alex Hudson]] investigated<ref>http://www.alexhudson.com/blog/2009/10/30/corporate-lobbying-against-free-software/</ref> some ugly corporate lobbying against free software.  


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Latest revision as of 06:21, 11 November 2011

Planet Fedora

This is the Planet Fedora section, covering news from planet.fedoraproject.org[1], a collection of blogs from Fedora users spanning the globe.

Contributing Writer: Joel Braun

Events

FudCon Pune 2011

Kishan Goyal posted on his experience on day 2 at FudCon Pune[1].

Joerg Simon posted pictures[2] of the event.

Izhar Firdaus wrote about his experience[3] at FudCon, as well as some thoughts on the atmosphere of the event.

Suchakra also blogged on Fudcon Pune[4].

Kushal Das posted photos[5] of the event to his blog.

Fedora Community

The release of Fedora 16 has been the main topic of the blogroll recently, and it's fair to say that it's being greeted with open arms by many of the users.

Juanjo Martinez blogged on his first impressions of F16, calling it an "impressive release"[6].

General

Adam Williamson posted about [7]starting work on Fedora 17, and experimentation with the new kernel in a virtualized environment.