FWN/Issue109

= Fedora Weekly News Issue 109 =

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 109 for the week of November 5th. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue109

In Announcements, we have "Announcing the release of Fedora 8 (Werewolf)", "Fedora Unity releases Fedora 8 CD Sets", "rpm.livna.org repositories for Fedora 8 (Werewolf) now available", "ATrpms for Fedora 8; EOL for Fedora Core 6" and "Unofficial Fedora FAQ Updated for Fedora 8!"

In Planet Fedora, we have "Lesser-Known Fedora Contributors", "Part 1-6, Report: LTSP Hackfest 2007", "motd-File for your machine", "Fedora Electronic Lab 8 - Stable release", "Fedora Unity Spin Report", "Fedora 8 Games Spin - Feedback Requested", "Fedora Media Labels Howto", and "I am a Broken Record"

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Announcements
In this section, we cover announcements from Fedora Project.

https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list

Contributing Writer: ThomasChung

Announcing the release of Fedora 8 (Werewolf)
JesseKeating announces in fedora-announce-list[1] ,

"(To the tune of Michael Jackson's "Thriller") It's close to midnight and something cool is coming through the "tubes" It's looking real tight, a distro for the experts and the n00bs With Live CDs* so you can try it out before installing Or DVDs so you can have the packages you choose No way to lose"

"'Cause it's Fedora, Fedora 8 We'd love to have you join us and together we'll be great Using Fedora, Fedora 8 Just click the link and rescue your computer's future today"

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2007-November/msg00006.html

Fedora Unity releases Fedora 8 CD Sets
JeroenVanMeeuwen announces in fedora-announce-list[1] ,

"The Fedora Unity Project is proud to announce the release of new CD Spins of Fedora 8. These CD ISOs are based on the Fedora 8 DVD.iso. The ISO images are available for i386 and x86_64 architectures via jigdo starting Thursday, November 8th, 2007. We have included CD Image sets for those in the Fedora community that do not have DVD drives or burners available."

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2007-November/msg00008.html

rpm.livna.org repositories for Fedora 8 (Werewolf) now available
ThorstenLeemhuis announces in fedora-announce-list[1] ,

"On behalf of the Livna ( http://rpm.livna.org ) contributers I'd like to announce the availability of the Livna package repository for Fedora 8 (Werewolf). The Livna repository hosts software as RPM packages which cannot be shipped in the official Fedora repository for various reasons and supports the i386, x86_64 and ppc architectures."

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2007-November/msg00004.html

ATrpms for Fedora 8; EOL for Fedora Core 6
AxelThimm announces in fedora-announce-list[1] ,

"ATrpms is officially launching Fedora 8 support for i386, x86_64 and ppc. http://ATrpms.net/dist/f8/"

"FC6 support will be EOL'd once the Fedora Project drops support for it (e.g. on December 7, 2007)."

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2007-November/msg00005.html

Unofficial Fedora FAQ Updated for Fedora 8!
MaxKanatAlexander announces in fedora-announce-list[1] ,

"Hello! Right along with the release of Fedora 8, we're ready with the Fedora 8 version of the Unofficial Fedora FAQ! http://www.fedorafaq.org/"

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2007-November/msg00011.html

Ask Fedora
In this section, we answer general questions from Fedora community. Send your questions to askfedora AT fedoraproject.org and Fedora News Team will bring you answers from the Fedora Developers and Contributors to selected number of questions every week as part of our weekly news report. Please indicate if you do not wish your name and/or email address to be published.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AskFedora

Contributing Writer: RexDieter

KDE 4
"Robert Myers : When KDE 4 is released next month, will packages for it be added to the Fedora 8 repositories?"

Robert, here's the cliff's notes answer:

KDE4 development platform is already in Fedora 8. For details:


 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/Devel/KDE4DevelopmentPlatform
 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/Desktop

When KDE 4.0 is released, we are strongly considering including KDE4 editions of kdeedu, kdegames as well, but the final decision hasn't been made.

The rest of KDE4 is Fedora 9 territory:


 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureKDE4

which is currently a bit out of date, but we'll be working on that once Fedora 8 is out the door.

Planet Fedora
In this section, we cover a highlight of Planet Fedora - an aggregation of blogs from world wide Fedora contributors.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Planet

Contributing Writers: ThomasChung

Lesser-Known Fedora Contributors, Part 1-6
MaxSpevack points out in his blog[1-6] ,

"I must say, I have always been very impressed with our Brazilian Fedora community. They have created their own website, and they have always been very good about getting a lot of value out of the relatively small amount of money that we are able to send their way. In particular, I would like to thank RodrigoPadula and DavidBarzilay."

"Most of Jon's (JonathanRoberts).contributions come as a writer -- he is particularly active in the Fedora News and the Fedora Documentation communities. In the Fedora 8 cycle, he has done a few things that have been tremendously helpful to me directly. The first is his work on the Fedora 8 Release Summary. The release summary is basically the Fedora community's "press release", written by a group of volunteers and meant to be a reasonably brief overview of "what is cool in the new distribution".

"Ricky (RickyZhou) has had a lot to do with the entire look-and feel of the non-wiki section of fedoraproject.org. Right now, I hear, he is debugging the way fedoraproject.org renders when viewed with Internet Explorer 6, which actually tells you pretty much everything you need to know about his desire to see a Job Done Well."

"Allison Mc Word. Dan also confesses to putting things down on paper. RuturajVartak wrote that he uses SCIM for Hindi translations, gedit and gtranslator. PaulFrields is a big Emacs fan, but pines for Open Book XML better and is excited about the possibility of supporting text translations inside SVG diagrams.

[1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2007-November/msg00022.html

Fedora Documentation Steering Committee (FDSCo) Meeting
The log[1] of the FDSCo meeting held on 4 November was posted to the mailing list. There is also an html version[2] available on the Fedora Project wiki.

[1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2007-November/msg00014.html

[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/SteeringCommittee/Meetings/Minutes/IRCLog20071104

The FDSCo meeting for 11 November 2007 was cancelled.

Administration Guide Work
There's been some excellent progress lately on the Admninistration Guide.

VladimirKosovac wrote that he just started a Samba write-up for the Servers section in the Wiki. He understood that TOCs and multiple pages should be avoided to ease wiki--> Doc User Guide) is GNOME-centered. Help us to provide an equivalent for KDE." [1]

[] 1 http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2007-November/msg00013.html

POT/PO Update for Release Notes
PaulFrields did his usual excellent job in getting the Release Notes in shape for final publication in time for the release of Fedora 8. Ever the humble person, he acknowledged the hard work done by everyone:

"Thanks to everyone who worked so hard on getting these ready -- it looks like we'll have at least 11 languages ready on release date! You guys never fail to astound me with how much work you can accomplish in such a relatively short time.  Congratulations to all the teams for their efforts!" [1]

[1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2007-November/msg00015.html

Artwork
In this section, we cover Fedora Artwork Project.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork

Contributing Writer: TimothyRoberts

Nodoka Window Decorations for KDE
LaithJuwaidah has released a KDE version of the new Fedora theme Nodoka.

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-November/msg00014.html

Arts in Brazil
JaymeAyres has contributed artwork for Fedora Project in Brasil.

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-November/msg00033.html

CD Box Draft
GiacomoSucci has posted a first draft of of the CD Box. He is asking for the community's opinions and comments.

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-November/msg00056.html

Hardcoded Icons
JakubRusinek has requested that the community help fix gnome system-* packages, which currently hardcodes icon paths.

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-November/msg00018.html

Fedora 8 Features in PDF
MichaelBeckwith has requested assistance with compiling a PDF intended to display the new features of Fedora 8. He is in need of content, ideas, and graphics.

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-November/msg00035.html

Security Week
In this section, we highlight the security stories from the week in Fedora.

Contributing Writer: JoshBressers

Fedora 8 released
Last week saw the release of Fedora 8. This is important for countless reasons, one of them being a new firewall configuration tool. This is important since it should hopefully keep more people using the firewall. In previous Fedora releases it was often easiest to just turn off the firewall when something didn't work. This is obviously an unwise move as it can leave your machine open to various other issues. One of the most difficult things for security to achieve is keeping users safe while staying out of the way.

pcre
Some rather foul pcre flaws were made public last week. In reality these flaws aren't a big deal for most users, but it was found that pcre is used by Konqueror. It seems that the Konqueror web browser uses the pcre library for its JavaScript regular expression support. Web browsers are easily one of the most dangerous applications on a computer, as they process an incredible amount of arbitrary third party content.

Advisories and Updates
In this section, we cover Security Advisories and Package Updates from fedora-package-announce.

https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-announce

Contributing Writer: ThomasChung

Fedora 8 Security Advisories

 * seamonkey-1.1.5-2.fc8 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00102.html
 * tar-1.17-4.fc8 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00105.html
 * hugin-0.6.1-11.fc8 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00107.html
 * ruby-1.8.6.111-1.fc8 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00110.html
 * cpio-2.9-5.fc8 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00118.html
 * liferea-1.2.23-5.fc8 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00131.html
 * nagios-plugins-1.4.8-9.fc8 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00139.html
 * xscreensaver-5.03-14.fc8 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00143.html
 * glib2-2.14.3-1.fc8 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00172.html
 * mono-1.2.5.1-2.fc8 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00182.html
 * cups-1.3.4-2.fc8 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00193.html
 * kdegraphics-3.5.8-7.fc8 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00204.html
 * xpdf-3.02-4.fc8 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00207.html
 * openldap-2.3.39-1.fc8 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00230.html
 * koffice-1.6.3-13.fc8 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00236.html
 * Django-0.96.1-1.fc8 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00243.html

Fedora 7 Security Advisories

 * cpio-2.6-28.fc7 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00053.html
 * proftpd-1.3.1-2.fc7 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00065.html
 * hugin-0.6.1-11.fc7 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00199.html
 * tomboy-0.6.1-2.fc7 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00206.html
 * xpdf-3.02-4.fc7 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00215.html
 * koffice-1.6.3-13.fc7 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00224.html
 * inotify-tools-3.11-1.fc7 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00228.html
 * cups-1.2.12-7.fc7 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00238.html
 * mono-1.2.3-5.fc7 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00249.html
 * Django-0.96.1-1.fc7 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00257.html

Fedora Core 6 Security Advisories

 * flac-1.1.2-28 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00068.html
 * firefox-1.5.0.12-5.fc6 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00070.html
 * thunderbird-1.5.0.12-3.fc6 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00071.html
 * libpng-1.2.10-10.fc6 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00072.html
 * tar-1.15.1-27.fc6 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00073.html
 * xen-3.0.3-13.fc6 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00075.html
 * ruby-1.8.5.114-1.fc6 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00076.html
 * cups-1.2.12-5.fc6 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00077.html
 * cpio-2.6-22.fc6 - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00078.html

Events and Meetings
In this section, we cover event reports and meeting summaries from various projects.

Contributing Writer: ThomasChung

Fedora Board Meeting Minutes 2007-MM-DD

 * No Report

Fedora Ambassadors Meeting 2007-MM-DD

 * No Report

Fedora Documentation Steering Committee (Log) 2007-MM-DD

 * No Report

Fedora Engineering Steering Committee Meeting 2007-MM-DD

 * No Report

Fedora Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Report Week 44

 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Reports/Week44

Fedora Infrastructure Meeting (Log) 2007-11-08

 * https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2007-November/msg00116.html

Fedora Localization Meeting 2007-MM-DD

 * No Report

Fedora Marketing Meeting 2007-MM-DD

 * No Report

Fedora Packaging Committee Meeting 2007-MM-DD

 * No Report

Fedora Quality Assurance Meeting 2007-11-07

 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20071107

Fedora Release Engineering Meeting 2007-11-05

 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/Meetings/2007-nov-05

Fedora SIG KDE Meeting 2007-11-06

 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2007-11-06