FWN/Issue202

= Fedora Weekly News Issue 202 =

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 202 for the week ending November 15, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue.

In Announcements, the always-popular name selection process for the next Fedora release is underway, and nominations are open for December's Fedora elections. Planet Fedora contributes a look at the new Fedora Community site, some benchmarks of improbably large filesystems and a guide to using the Sugar desktop on Fedora. From Quality Assurance we hear about some more AutoQA improvements and the last stretch of the Fedora 12 release process. The Design team has been working on media art and website banners for the Fedora 12 release. Security Advisories summarizes the security patches released for Fedora 10 and 11 over the past week. In Virtualization, we discuss creating network bridges for virtual machines when using NetworkManager, and a new release of libguestfs. There's also news on the state of Xen support in Fedora 12. Finally, the KDE section brings us up to date on some new backends for the Nepomuk semantic desktop system, and the replacement of gtk-qt-engine with kcm-gtk for Fedora 12. Enjoy the read!

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FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson



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KDE
This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora KDE Special Interests Group.

Contributing Writer: Ryan Rix

New Soprano Backends coming to Fedora KDE
MaryEllenFoster has been working on packaging the Java based Sesame2 backend for Nepomuk to replace the Redland backend. Unfortunately, Sesame2 is dependent on many other Java packages which must first be packaged for inclusion in Fedora. There are many packages that still need to be packaged for this backend to make it into Fedora. Mary Ellen has been working hard to package many of these dependencies, but this has recently fallen in priorities to personal business. Now that she has more time to put into this packaging, she has realized that many of the packages on her wiki page were either unnecessary or already under review in Fedora.

After Sebastian Trueg wrote on his blog about getting Soprano and Virtuoso to work together, Rex Dieter began work on packaging the virtuoso backend as virtuoso-opensource. The Soprano plugins will not be stable until the release of KDE 4.4; however, Dieter has packaged snapshots with working virtuoso support in the kde-redhat unstable repository as virtuoso-opensource 5.0.12-1 and soprano 2.3.67-0.1.20091102. After installing these packages, follow steps 5-7 outlined on Trueg's blog post and you should be up and running. Please report any issues to the Fedora-KDE mailing list. This is, however, extremely early software, and may have many bugs blocking regular use.

gtk-qt-engine retired, replaced with kcm-gtk
Rex Dieter has decided to orphan the gtk-qt-engine package in favor of replacing it with the kcm-gtk package for Fedora 12+. The packages are for all intents and purposes identical except kcm-gtk doesn't ship the Qt style for gtk. The Qt style has been problematic and, for the most part, unmaintained upstream.