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| == Planet Fedora == | | == Planet Fedora == |
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| In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora - 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. |
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| http://planet.fedoraproject.org
| | Contributing Writer: [[User:Jbraun|Joel Braun]] |
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| Contributing Writer: [[:User:Mspevack|Max Spevack]]
| | === Events === |
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| === Graphical Boot and Live Images === | | ====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>. |
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| [[JeremyKatz|Jeremy Katz]] writes in his blog[1]: | | [[user:jsimon|Joerg Simon]] posted pictures<ref>http://kitall.blogspot.com/2011/11/fudcon-pune-2011-travel-und-event.html</ref> of the event. |
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| "One of the goals for Fedora 10 is to replace the aging rhgb that has been used for graphical boot since Red Hat Linux 8.0. rhgb is implemented using an X server which started in rc.sysinit relatively early during the boot process and then some feedback is provided to the user. With some of the improvements underway for Fedora 10 we should hopefully have kernel modesetting in place at least for some drivers which will let us set a native resolution graphical mode as opposed to requiring either text-mode, an X driver + server or the use of a framebuffer."
| | [[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. |
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| [1] http://katzj.livejournal.com/432195.html | | [[user:suchakra|Suchakra]] also blogged on Fudcon Pune<ref>http://suchakra.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/fudcon%e2%86%94funcon-pune-2011/</ref>. |
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| === Whence world domination? === | | [[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. |
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| [[ColinWalters|Colin Walters]] muses[1] during GUADEC:
| | 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. |
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| "How do we increase use of GNOME and Free Software in general on the desktop? What's our target audience? What kinds of things can we do? Why haven't we taken over the world yet?"
| | [[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>. |
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| [1] http://cgwalters.livejournal.com/18327.html
| | ===General=== |
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| === Patented oddness... ===
| | [[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. |
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| [[JefSpaleta|Jef Spaleta]] opines on his blog[1] about ooxml:
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| "So looking back over the last few months of all the coverage concerning ooxml and how very bad it is... it seems to me that a lot of people have made it a point to question whether the ooxml specification has patented bits. Even in countries where software patents aren't so very important...yet.. the very issue of patents on bits of the ooxml specification made some sort of press.
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| Compared to the situation we have for patent encumbered audio/video standards..i find such interest in talking about the ooxml patent issue quite out of proportion. Why does the world, the free world, the world where innovation is yet to be shackled by the constraints of enforced software patents care so very much about the patentability of ooxml, but for audio/video format specifications, its barely on anyone's radar at all as something to be up in arms about?"
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| [1] http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/24410.html
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| === Bug reporting for Planet Fedora ===
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| [[MaxSpevack|Max Spevack]] writes on his blog[1],
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| "We have received several reports from people who visited parents, relatives, etc. over the 4th of July weekend and saw strange rendering problems with Planet Fedora on various browser/OS combinations.
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| In response to that, we have set up a test matrix that anyone in our community can use to report either successful or problematic browser/OS combinations.
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| If you have a Windows box or a Macintosh near you, this is an easy way to do a little bit of testing that will be of benefit to the Fedora community."
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| [1] http://spevack.livejournal.com/58828.html
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| === Fedora EMEA Ambassador Meeting Reminder ===
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| [[FabianAffolter|Fabian Affolter]] writes on his blog[1],
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| "The next monthly EMEA Ambassador Meeting will be next week.
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| Day : Wednesday, July 16, 2008 (16.07.2008)
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| Time : 20:00 UTC
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| Channel : #fedora-meeting"
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| [1] http://fabaff.blogspot.com/2008/07/reminder-emea-ambassador-meeting-next.html
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| === Eth-0 and hacking out in the woods ===
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| [[YaakovNemoy|Yaakov Nemoy]] writes on his blog[1] about the [http://www.eth-0.nl/ Eth-0] show in Wieringermeer.
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| "I think it's really important for people to understand a little bit about how open source in Europe works compared to the US. For many people here it isn't just a development model or a way of guaranteeing some level of code security, but just a matter of life and reality. Many people here, at this event, are pretty involved not only in messing around with fun electronic toys, but also administrating some very complex networks and systems deployments. Being able to apply a certain level of code freedom to playing with complex servers scales equally as well to being able to create new tools for Audio and Video production. In other words, all the cool parties use open source here.
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| When working with Free Media geeks, having libraries of open media for use in productions is equally as important. It's very common to want to use movies out of pop culture or out of alternative culture (cue obvious cut to a scene from Yellow Submarine for 750 milliseconds.) The sooner most common media, even off-Hollywood films are under licenses like the Creative Commons, the closer artists are able to legally and freely use this media for their performances as well. Open Source and Open Media aren't just philosophical discussions but really affect the things that people her do."
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| [1] http://loupgaroublond.blogspot.com/2008/07/eth-0-and-hacking-out-in-woods.html
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| === Pushing kernels more aggressively to updates-testing ===
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| [[DavidNielsen|David Nielsen]] offers his opinions[1] on how we push kernel updates in Fedora:
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| "We did the correct thing, to a degree naturally, the update was in relation to a security update something Fedora takes very seriously. As such our users should always feel safe knowing that we will push such updates fast, keeping their systems secure through multiple means including proactive security and rapid updates.
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| However the problem is that we don’t apply the update to the existing stable kernel, the patch is always applied on top of the progressing kernel, meaning we also end up shipping a lot of other things such as bugfixes, updates to the latest upstream STABLE tree and various other things. This however is confronted with one problem, the kernels in between the current stable and next update are not all being pushed to updates-testing - only selected kernel updates are. In cases where we then have to release a security fix we are forced to ship a bunch of stuff additionally which is not likely to have been tested extensively."
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| [1] http://davidnielsen.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/pushing-kernels-more-aggressively-to-updates-testing/
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