FWN/Issue185

= Fedora Weekly News Issue 185 =

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 185 for the week ending July 19, 2009.

Highlights from this week's issue include an overview of feature details for Fedora 12 (Constantine) in our Announcements beat, followed by news from all over the Fedora Planet, including instructions on how to install Chromium (the open source version of Google's Chrome browser) on Fedora, thoughts on the Association for Competitive Technology's recent accusations against the European Commission "of having a bias in favor of open source", and a review of Hannah Montana Linux, along with much more. This week's Ambassadors beat features an event report from Tripura, India and highlights the worldwide Fedora Ambassador map -- find your closest Ambassadors! The Quality Assurance beat features details on the second upcoming Fit and Finish Test Day, to focus on power management and suspend/resume in Fedora with opportunities to participate in the testing. Also a review of this past week's meetings, Fedora 12 bug blocker review and Fedora 11 bug triage. The Art beat this week features details on the Fedora 12 design schedule and also more detail on wallpaper development that FWN has reported on in recent weeks. This week's issue rounds out with much Fedora virtualization news goodness, including details on transition from the Enterprise Management Tools lists, some very helpful Fedora virtual machine disk setup tips, and details of new versions of libguestfs and virt-v2v. This is but a sampling of this week's content and we hope you enjoy this week's issue!

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FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson

, the QT VoIP client, to work with Fedora Talk.

Peter Hutterer continued the XI2 Recipes series with "the common input events and the data they include". Peter also explained some additional details about new XLib APIs to handle cookies and associated data.

Paul W. Frields wrote about configuring and optimizing  for remote/disconnected operation.

Kevin Higgins posted photos from the Vancouver Fedora 11 Release Party.

Michael Tiemann questioned the Association for Competitive Technology's recent accusations against the European Commission "of having a bias in favor of open source."

Greg DeKoenigsberg suggested that "creating a strong 'patch culture'" for Spacewalk (and by extension, open source projects in general) can be accomplished by setting a strong example. "People behave as they see others behave."

Luke Macken posted some pretty pictures of Fedora 9 package update metrics.

Seth Vidal came up with a list of "critical path" packages "that require special care when updating in rawhide and releases". For more information, see the Critical Path Packages Proposal.

Daniel Walsh added another SELinux how-to, to the ongoing series, this time fixing a "denial message about vpnc_t trying to read a file labeled user_home_t."

Matthew Garrett chimed in about RMS' recent comments regarding the "cult of the virgin of emacs".

Máirín Duffy displayed mockups of a net  dialog mockup.

Marc Ferguson instructed how to install Chromium (the Open Source project version of Google's Chrome web browser) on Fedora 11.

James Laska called out for anyone interested in joining the Fedora QA efforts, and pointed out some exemplary guides on the Fedora Wiki to assist in debugging particular projects.

Karsten Wade explained some background around the Fedora Infrastructure team's implementation of, a new content management system that will be used for various Fedora teams.

Andrew Vermilya Jamison reviewed KDE4 on Fedora, from the perspective of a Gnome user.

Julian Aloofi reviewed Hannah Montana Linux. Scary.

remote protocol dispatch code is written in such a way that assumes the only incoming messages from clients are method calls. This makes it very hard to support data streams. This patch series does an incrmental refactoring of alot of code to allow data streams to be easily wired in."

daemon can run unprivileged QEMU guests. The default remains unchanged with QEMU running as root:root, but the package maintainer can request an alternative default user at build time, and the sysadmin can also override this at install time with ."

This patch is in support of the planned Fedora 12 feature "VirtPrivileges".

cgroups Support in QEMU Driver
Daniel Berrange added "cgroups support to the QEMU driver."

Experimental Tunnelled Migration
Chris Lalancette posted "the current version of the tunnelled migration patch, based upon Daniel Berrange's generic datastream work. In order to use this work, you must first grab danpb's data-streams git branch ". Chris's work on secure guest migration was covered in FWN #168.