Planet Fedora
In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide.
Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin
General
Starting us off this week is a blast from the past: Jesus Rodriguez running[1] OS/2 Warp 4 (in VirtualBox).
As part of the process to review Anaconda's user experience, Máirín Duffy noted[2] that the "REINITIALIZING WILL CAUSE ALL DATA TO BE LOST!" dialog is both unnecessarily scary and complicated. And this week in Anaconda (#7), Chris Lumens also discussed[3] the storage component, specifically how it is tested and using hard disks with different sector sizes. In Part #8[4], Chris introduced "Lorax", a new project to rebuild the scripts that build an installation image.
While on the topic of disks, Rahul Sundaram outlined[5] where btrfs is going (hint: one day you will likely see it as the default filesystem in Fedora). And the days of naming ethernet interfaces ethX may be coming to an end[6]. "Starting in Fedora 15, Ethernet ports on servers will have a new naming scheme corresponding to physical locations, rather than ethX."
Tom Callaway posted[7] a set of notes about tuning Fedora for use on an SSD.
Will Woods continued[8] describing how the Fedora infrastructure goes about building and testing packages before they arrive on a user's system.
Have you been wondering what the "Network Control Panel" will look like in Gnome 3? Wonder no more, as Richard Hughes posted[9] a bunch of potential screenshots.
Richard W.M. Jones explained[10] how you can use libguestfs, guestfish and its toolset to easily move files between host and guest systems.
Adam Williamson reported[11] that you may soon be able to install Unity on Fedora. "Why? Well, a few reasons. Mainly, Unity’s an interesting project. I want to look at it and compare it to GNOME Shell and I think quite a few others do too, so it seems nice to package it so you can run both on Fedora..." Adam followed-up[12] with some more technical details.
Bryan Clark mentioned[13] that there is now an experimental Thunderbird extension that can display conversations in a similar way to Gmail.
Jon Masters suggested[14] that perhaps the Fedora Project needs a Technical Architect. "FESCo should appoint a person as their technical representative who speaks for overall system architecture concerns. The person in this role should actively seek out compatibility or integration problems but should also be a “go to” person for concerns that arise in the interests of distribution cohesion."
Máirín Duffy mentioned[15] that the Fedora Board now has its very own blog where the December 13th meeting minutes have already been posted[16].
- ↑ http://zeusville.wordpress.com/2010/12/01/os2-warp-4-in-virtualbox/
- ↑ http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/12/02/reinitializing-will-cause-all-data-to-be-lost/
- ↑ http://www.bangmoney.org/serendipity/index.php?/archives/161-This-Week-in-Anaconda-7.html
- ↑ http://www.bangmoney.org/serendipity/index.php?/archives/162-This-Week-in-Anaconda-8.html
- ↑ http://fedoranext.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/buttering-up-fedora-15/
- ↑ http://fedoranext.wordpress.com/2010/12/07/a-lesson-in-persistency/
- ↑ http://spot.livejournal.com/316190.html
- ↑ http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/wwoods/2011/01/03/depcheck-tags-and-timing-2/
- ↑ http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2010/12/16/gnome-3-and-the-network-control-panel/
- ↑ http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/12/02/tip-uploading-and-downloading/
- ↑ http://www.happyassassin.net/2010/12/03/unity-on-fedora-possibly/
- ↑ http://www.happyassassin.net/2010/12/08/unity-hardware-failures-and-f15-qa/
- ↑ http://clarkbw.net/blog/2010/12/08/thunderbird-conversations/
- ↑ http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/2010/12/15/opinion-fedora-needs-an-architect/
- ↑ http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/12/16/fedora-board-blog/
- ↑ http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/board/?p=3