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Planet Fedora

In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide.

http://planet.fedoraproject.org

Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin

General

Máirín Duffy said[1] it best: "ZOMG Stickers!!!!11"

Rex Dieter announced[2] a new fedora-kde mailing list

Harald Hoyer analyzed[3] the Fedora 10 boot process on an EeePC 901 with a solid-state disk, including some easy optimizations

Casey Dahlin wrote a series[4,5,6,7] on a new internal state machine driving the Upstart service manager

Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay discussed[8] some of the commonly overlooked difficulties of the commonly overlooked process of internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n)

Warren Togami had[9] some problems netbooting old PowerPC Macs as Thin Clients (and is open to suggestions)

Tim Waugh posted[10] a tutorial on preventing a Python/GTK+ application from appearing to freeze while performing CUPS operations

Abhishek Rane summarized[11] his thoughts on "Best of FOSS and Linux in 2008"

Dimitris Glezos described[12] Transifex and their new startup company built around it

Christoph Wickert embedded[13] a video interview with Mario Behling talking about LXDE

Jef Spaleta offered[14] a number of retrospective questions at the end of his tenure on the Fedora Board

Sébastien Bilbeau posted[15] the "25 Best Linux Desktop Customization Screenshots"

Yaakov Nemoy mused[16] about the relationship between the Open Source development process and anarchy

[1] http://mihmo.livejournal.com/65838.html

[2] http://rdieter.livejournal.com/11262.html

[3] http://www.harald-hoyer.de/personal/blog/fedora-10-boot-analysis

[4] http://screwyouenterpriseedition.blogspot.com/2008/12/new-upstart-state-machine.html

[5] http://screwyouenterpriseedition.blogspot.com/2008/12/new-upstart-state-machine-part-2.html

[6] http://screwyouenterpriseedition.blogspot.com/2008/12/new-upstart-state-machine-part-3.html

[7] http://screwyouenterpriseedition.blogspot.com/2008/12/new-upstart-state-machine-part-4.html

[8] http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2008/12/16/and-here-we-go-again-2/

[9] http://wtogami.livejournal.com/29574.html

[10] http://cyberelk.net/tim/2008/12/17/cups-gtk-python-and-threading/

[11] http://www.abhishekrane.com/2008/12/17/best-of-foss-and-linux-in-2008/

[12] http://dimitris.glezos.com/weblog/2008/12/17/chasing-a-dream

[13] http://www.christoph-wickert.de/blog/2008/12/18/lxde-presentation-at-red-hat-singapore/

[14] http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/29998.html

[15] http://www.tux-planet.fr/25-best-linux-desktop-customization-screenshots/

[16] http://loupgaroublond.blogspot.com/2008/12/open-source-and-anarchism.html

Events

Fedora Release Party in Milan[17]

Fedora Day at Menoufiya Universty, Egypt[18]

[17] http://people.byte-code.com/fcrippa/2008/12/19/fedora-release-party-milan-italy/

[18] http://www.fossology.net/Fedora_Day_at_Menoufiya_Universty_Egypt_release_10