FWN/Issue179

= Fedora Weekly News Issue 179 =

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 179 for the week ending June 7, 2009.

In this, the issue immediately prior to the impending release of Fedora 11, we have a fine bevy of news for you. Fedora elections are open for voting in the various positions, please participate if you are eligible. John Polestra has also been elected to the Fedora Board for a two release term. From around the Fedora Planet, Fedora 11 podcasts, details on fingerprint authentication in F11, and thoughts on ensuring Fedora teams sustainability from Fedora leader Paul W. Frields. In Ambassadors, a reminder to please send in news about upcoming Fedora events in your area. In QA news, details on this past weekly meeting, deeply focused in pre-Fedora 11 final testing and pre-upgrade status. In the Translation beat, the release notes for Fedora 11 have been completed and are ready for translation rebuild after the Fedora 11 Release Announcement. The Fedora Localization Project welcomed new contributors for Latvian and Russian, Chinese, Italian, traditional Chinese and Korean and Spanish this past week! The Fedora Design team is already thinking about Fedora 12 'themeability' of some of the proposed codenames for F12. Also some great artwork for an upcoming FUDCon in Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil. In Security news, details on .ORG becoming the first top-level domain to sign their zone with DNSSEC and implications for other domains. Our issue this week rounds up with news from virtualization teams, including updates on libvirt 0.6.4, thoughts of virtualization features for Fedora 12, and much more. Enjoy!

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FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson

, which allows users to update their RPM-based system without having to download entire RPM files (only their deltas are downloaded).

Jef Spaleta announced that a record 1,996,040 unique IPs accessed fedoraproject.org over May 2009.

Peter Hutterer explained how X handles mouse button mappings (it's not as easy as you think!) and continued with "XI2 Recipes, Part 1" and example programs that can support multiple mouse cursors and keyboard foci.

Karsten Wade wrote about the process necessary to vote in the FESCo and Fedora Board election, from signing the CLA to joining a contributing sub-project.

Jack Aboutboul interviewed Bastien Nocera, "long time Fedora Contributor and Desktop Renaissance Man" about authentication and fingerprinting in F11/12.

Dave Malcolm released a new version (0.4) of, the command line text query tool, with a number of new features include the ability to handle arbitrary text files (split on whitespace like awk, or use regular expressions) and support for pcap (tcpdump/wireshark) dump files.

Max Spevack answered the age-old question "why is Fedora always released on a Tuesday?"

Paul W. Frields published a "Fedora teams’ call to action" which might be described as a number of important points to make Fedora teams more "sustainable" (how would a team cope if a contributor was eaten by a dinosaur?)

0.6.3 was released on April 24.