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
Martin Sourada took a look[1] at font antialiasing and what makes fonts look ugly. In a further post, Martin answered[2] the more general question "Why is my design blurry?"
In the continuing journey of libguestfs Richard W.M. Jones added[3],[4],[5] support for working with the Windows registry form a Linux guest. Apparently you can also[6] mount guest filesystems on the host filesystem using FUSE (the example provided even mounts a Windows guest's NTFS filesystem to a Linux host).
Tim Lauridsen demonstrated[7] a new feature of yum in Fedora 12: history, "that makes it possible to see what happened in part of a transaction and redo/undo past transactions."
Paul W. Frields outlined[8] some of the new features to be found in the Fedora 12 beta. and encouraged[9] anyone who finds an issue to report it! Don't assume that someone else will have already filed a bug.
Paul also reprinted[10] a posting from the Fedora Advisory Board mailing list about the mission of Fedora, its goals and target audience.
Peter Hutterer explained[11] what goes in to the X Windowing system release (now that X11R7.5 has been released).
Máirín Duffy displayed[12] the new default wallpaper slated for Fedora 12. Shiny!
Richard Hughes built[13] a tool (still in its early stages) to deal with ICC Color management under GNOME.
Alex Hudson investigated[14] some ugly corporate lobbying against free software.
- ↑ http://mso-chronicles.blogspot.com/2009/10/mark-difference-ugly-fonts-in-fedora.html
- ↑ http://mso-chronicles.blogspot.com/2009/10/answer-to-why-is-my-design-blurry.html
- ↑ http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/libhivex-windows-registry-hive-extractor-library/
- ↑ http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/hivexget-get-values-from-a-windows-registry-hive/
- ↑ http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/virt-win-reg-get-at-the-windows-registry-in-your-windows-guests/
- ↑ http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/fuse-support-for-libguestfs/
- ↑ http://fedora.rasmil.dk/blog/?p=167
- ↑ http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=2837
- ↑ http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=2846
- ↑ http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=2848
- ↑ http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/10/x11r75-released-but-what-is-it.html
- ↑ http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/fedora-12s-default-wallpaper/
- ↑ http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2009/10/28/gnome-color-manager/
- ↑ http://www.alexhudson.com/blog/2009/10/30/corporate-lobbying-against-free-software/