FWN/Issue196

= Fedora Weekly News Issue 196 =

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 196 for the week ending October 4, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue.

Starting off with announcements, which includes general, development and event announcements, notice that minutes from last week's Fedora Board open meeting are now available, an update on Fedora 12 milestones, and an upcoming change in NFS. From the Fedora Planet, news and views from Fedora contributors. In Quality Assurance news, review of the latest Test Day on Anaconda's storage system, and detail from the team's weekly meetings, and several other activities. In Design news, details of the Art Team's work for the F12 beta release, an update on additional wallpapers, and discussion of a new notification theme on the list. The Security Advisory beat is back this week, with updates for the past few weeks for Fedora 10 and 11. The Virtualization list offers goodness on Fedora virtualization developments including new virt-rescue and virt-edit tools, and reorganization of the Xen git tree for the dom0 kernel. Our issue wraps up with news from the KDE SIG, including details on the expected feature set for Fedora 12 KDE spin and a new version of Amarok, "Sunjammer. We hope you enjoy this week's FWN!

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The tool "lets you run a rescue shell against a virtual machine" while  lets you edit a file inside a VM". For example: virt-edit mydomain /boot/grub/grub.conf

Fedora Xen List
This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-xen list.

xen/master: pvops git trees rearranged
Pasi Kärkkäinen forwarded an announcement from Jeremy Fitzhardinge about reorganizing the Xen git tree with the dom0 kernel.

"The kernel tree is fairly featureful:"
 * basic dom0 support
 * blkback
 * netback
 * ACPI power management
 * S3 suspend/resume (at least for some people)
 * microcode update
 * MSI support

"In other words, it has as much as it ever has. There are a few notable missing features:"
 * blktap2
 * netchannel2
 * pci front/back
 * upstream Linux support
 * your pet feature

The Xensource wiki has instructions compiling.

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

Contributing Writer: Ryan Rix

Fedora 12 KDE Spin Not KDE3-less after all
Last week Rex Dieter blogged about the versions of KOffice and K3b being included in the Fedora 12 KDE live spin. "The reality is that the kde4 ports of both k3b and koffice aren't quite ready, and not recommended for use by either upstream," says Dieter, so the versions shipping with Fedora 11 are going to be KOffice 1.6 and k3b 1.0.

Unofficial builds of KDE4's Koffice and k3b will continue to be built in the unofficial kde-redhat/unstable repos

KDE-SIG steering committee formed
At Tuesday's KDE-SIG IRC meeting an official steering committee was formed so that the SIG has somewhere "to take contentious decisions [and] so we know who exactly should be voting in such cases," says Kevin Kofler. The KDE-SIG steering group is formed of seven members, Rex Dieter, Than Ngo, Lukáš Tinkl, Kevin Kofler, Steven Parrish, Jaroslav Řezník and Sebastian Vahl. Rex Dieter will summarize the exact rules for voting and management of the Steering Committee at next week's meeting.

Amarok 2.2 released
This week marked the release of Amarok 2.2 "Sunjammer." Rex Dieter has been faithfully providing the Amarok builds from the first 2.2 beta to this release, and the final 2.2 release is currently in the updates-testing repository. This release marks the first official release that has many features that Amarok users have been missing since the 1.4 series, including the ability to sort the playlist and rearrange the application's layout to your preferences. Amarok 2.2 will be the first release series that will "focus on improving what is there rather than adding major new features," says Amarok developer Lydia Pintscher.