FWN/Issue253

= Fedora Weekly News Issue 253 =

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 253 for the week ending November 24, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue.

In announcements, notice that Toshio Kuratomi has been appointed to the Fedora Board, moving /var/run and /var/lock to tmpfs in Rawhide, and lots of information regarding the various Fedora elections now ongoing.We have six more reposts of articles and blog postings about Fedora in Fedora In the News. In Ambassador news, several news Ambassadors, from the UK, USA, Indonesia and Italy and a summary of list traffic on the Ambassador and FAmSCO lists. In Security Advisories, we bring up current with the latest security-related package releases over the past week for Fedora 12, 13 and 14. Enjoy!

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FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson

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Thank you for your attention!

Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc."

Fedora Board, FESCo & FAmSCo Elections - Voting Information
Robyn Bergeron announced

"Greetings,

The elections for the Fedora Board, Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo), and the Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee (FAmSCo) began at 0000 UTC on 20th November 2010, and are scheduled to run until 23:59 UTC on 28th November 2010. (Please refer to a UTC time zone converter if you are unsure of your time zone's relation to UTC.)

All groups have chosen to use the Range Voting method.

Ballots may be cast on the Fedora Elections System. If this is the first time you've used the voting system, please refer to the Fedora Elections Guide.

To read more about the candidates, please refer to each group's nomination pages:


 * FAmSCo
 * Fedora Project Board
 * FESCo

There is more general information about the election, as well as finding links for reading candidate answers to questionnaires and IRC town hall transcripts.

Please remember to cast your vote!

Thanks,

Robyn"

Fedora Board Election IRC Town Hall transcript
Toshio Kuratomi announced :

"The Fedora Board Town Hall happened today at 15:00 UTC. The transcript of the townhall is at the following URL:

Log

Minutes

Minutes (text)

Thanks to the candidates for answering questions and thanks to all the audience members for the insightful questions.

-Toshio"

FESCo Election IRC Town Hall Transcript
Kyle McMartin announced :

"The IRC logs of the discussion are available

I'll be making an edited transcript available (I'll link it from the wiki ) which should be a little easier to read, in the next day or so.

Thanks to our candidates, and to all who attended and submitted questions.

regards,

Kyle M."

Fedora Events
Fedora events are the exclusive and source of marketing, learning and meeting all the fellow community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with the following events to consider attending or volunteering near you!

Upcoming Events (Sept 2010 - November 2010)

 * North America (NA)
 * Central & South America (LATAM)
 * Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)
 * India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)

Past Events
Archive of Past Fedora Events

Additional information

 * Reimbursements -- reimbursement guidelines.
 * Budget -- budget for the current quarter (as distributed by FAMSCo).
 * Sponsorship -- how decisions are made to subsidize travel by community members.
 * Organization -- event organization, budget information, and regional responsibility.
 * Event reports -- guidelines and suggestions.
 * LinuxEvents -- a collection of calendars of Linux events.

Marketing
In this section, we cover the happenings for Fedora Marketing Project from 2010-11-17 to 2010-11-23.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing

Contributing Writer: Neville A. Cross

Robyn Bergeron announced that the press archive is now up to date.

The Marketing Team did not meet this past week.

Fedora In the News
In this section, we cover news from the trade press and elsewhere that is re-posted to the Fedora Marketing list

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing

Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco

Fedora 14 aka Laughlin Review (muktware)
Rahul Sundaram forwarded another review of Fedora 14, which sums up their experience with:

"Fedora 14 is a good distribution. Parts of it may not be for the inexperienced, such as partitioning disk drives. It may also require more knowledge and understanding to add multimedia functionality to the system, but once everything is set up, the user is generally good to go"

The full article is available.

Run Applications in Secure Sandboxes with SELinux (Linux.com)
Rahul Sundaram forwarded an article in Linux.com about SELinux's sandbox approach to application security:

"SELinux runs a Firefox in a restricted session that doesn't have access to rest of the system. That includes the X session. Firefox will run in a nested X server (Xephyr), and you won't be able to even copy & paste from or to the Firefox session and other apps. /But/, it also means that Firefox is totally restricted from reading any other files on your system and that malicious Web pages or attacks on plugins like Flash are sandboxed as well."

The full article is available

Fedora 14: Strong follow-up to 13 still suffers from same niche appeal (Linux In Exile)
Rahul Sundaram forwarded another blog review of Fedora 14:

"Don’t get me wrong, Fedora 14 is a great installation in the Fedora time line. It builds upon the strengths of Fedora 13. My biggest problem is in what was left out. It is my belief that ALL Linux distributions (the exception being the likes of Puppy Linux and other small to tiny distributions - as well as rescue distributions) should ship with all the tools necessary to get to work out-of-the-box (on top of the standard and system tools)."

The full post is available

Fuduntu Is A Fedora 14 Remix For Netbooks And Laptops (webupd8.org)
Rahul Sundaram forwarded announcement of a new Fedora 14 remix for Asus Eee netbooks:

"Fuduntu is a Fedora 14 remix (remaster) designed especially for Asus Eee (but you can of course use it on other netbooks and any laptop/desktop computer) and comes with some interesting performance tweaks by default. It was created by Fewt, the Jupiter (an hardware and power management applet for netbooks and Laptops) developer"

The full post is available

openrespect.org sorgt für Uneinigkeit (Pro-Linux.de Germany)
Henryk Heigl forwarded another posting on openrespect in which he provides some rough English translation:

"Originally the declaration should be carried by several projects together. This can be inferred anyhow to minutes of the last meeting of the Fedora executive committee. The Fedora executive committee appeared surprised that Bacon finally published its own version of the text despite the original offer to co-operation, and decided, not to support these. Individual members of the executive committee saw in the text a transparent attempt, criticism at Canonical, to the company behind Ubuntu to repel. Also the question, whether the text falsely equates politeness with respect, was raised."

The full post, in German, is available

Spotlight on Linux: Fedora 14 (Linux Journal)
Rahul Sundaram forwarded Linux Journal coverage of Fedora 14:

"One of the determining factors in the popularity of distributions is the size of their community. That puts Fedora near the top of the list.

Another advantage is the level of quality found throughout the distribution. Fedora developers contribute not only to Fedora, but also to upstream projects, and cherish the highest standards of quality control. Bugs are everywhere in code and Fedora is no exception, but Fedora developers seem to rise just a bit higher than some other distributions."

The full post is available

Ambassadors
This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Ambassadors Project.

Contributing Writer: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay

Welcome New Ambassadors
This week the Fedora Ambassadors Project had a couple of new members joining.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Renault from France mentored by Mathieu Bridon

Miles Kjeller from the United Kingdom mentored by Paul Mellors

Xavier from the USA mentored by Larry Cafiero

Arif from Indonesia mentored by Caius C. Chance

Francesco (zerodev) D'Aluisio from Italy mentored by Robert Scheck

Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list
David Ramsey informed about Fedora pulling ahead of Ubuntu in rankings. Christoph Wickert explained that it was possible due to the Fedora 14 release within the timeframe of the past month. The thread had some further conversations around the focus of Fedora and Ubuntu and the general perceptions.

Heherson Pagcaliwagan informed about the meeting for Fedora Ambassadors in the APAC region on 2010-11-21 at 0300 UTC. The proposed agenda was also posted

Marcus Moeller invited all those who live nearby or, liked to travel to join the LinuxDay 2010 at Dornbirn, Austria

Christoph Wickert informed the Ambassadors about the second FAmSCo Election IRC Townhall scheduled for 2010-11-19 at 1000 UTC. The logs to the first townhall were also referenced Susmit Shannigrahi provided the list of the questions asked in the first meeting to ensure that the candidates are asked similar questions. However, as Christoph was unable to moderate the meeting as he would be traveling he called for volunteers and provided the scope of duties

Harish Pillay provided details about Fedora 14 Launch in Singapore on 2010-11-29

Ryan Rix posted minutes and logs of the FAmSCo Townhall meeting

Larry Cafiero posted a query around an issue raised at the second FAmSCo Townhall pertaining to "upgrade ambassadors to superambassadors" The following thread had clarifications from Caius 'kaio' Chance and others about the proposal and objective

Abdel G. Martínez L invited all to be part of FUDCon Panama 2011

Buddhika Kurera proposed a T-shirt design for Ambassadors in APAC. Matthias Kranz pointed to the existing page on a similar issue and Mathieu Bridon asked about the possibility of reusing the design that is used in EMEA The thread has more discussion about designs and other possibilities of "Ambassador wear"

Joerg Simon posted Meeting Minutes from FAD EMEA 2010 at Rheinfelden along with a few photographs

Caius 'kaio' Chance asked whether the Meetup at Beijing on 2010-11-14 could be called a FAD

Robyn Bergeron posted Voting Information about the Fedora Board, FESCo and FAmSCo elections

Summary of traffic on FAmSCo mailing list
Joerg Simon informed that the FAmSCo meeting for 2010-11-22 was adjourned. There was some informal conversation

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

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce

Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco

Fedora 14 Security Advisories

 * suricata-1.0.2-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051220.html
 * openssl-1.0.0b-1.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051170.html
 * systemtap-1.3-3.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051115.html
 * libtlen-0-0.10.20060309.fc14 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051367.html

Fedora 13 Security Advisories

 * libtlen-0-0.10.20060309.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051247.html
 * openssl-1.0.0b-1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051237.html
 * freetype-2.3.11-7.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051231.html
 * mingw32-OpenSceneGraph-2.8.2-3.fc13 -http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051198.html
 * systemtap-1.3-3.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051127.html
 * cups-1.4.4-11.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051301.html
 * dhcp-4.1.1-27.P1.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051287.html
 * clamav-0.96.4-1300.fc13 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051278.html

Fedora 12 Security Advisories

 * openssl-1.0.0b-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051255.html
 * freetype-2.3.11-7.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051251.html
 * gif2png-2.5.1-1202.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051229.html
 * libtlen-0-0.10.20060309.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051228.html
 * systemtap-1.3-3.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051122.html
 * pam-1.1.1-6.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050991.html
 * bzip2-1.0.6-1.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051366.html
 * cups-1.4.4-11.fc12 - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051277.html