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=== Fedora bars SQLNinja hack tool (The Register UK) ===  
=== Fedora 14 aka Laughlin Review (muktware) ===  


Jonathan Nalley forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-November/013556.html</ref> an article on the Fedora Board discussion on inclusion of a SQL Server vulnerability penetration tool, SQLNinja:
Rahul Sundaram forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-November/013601.html</ref> another review of Fedora 14, which sums up their experience with:


"The decision came during the same meeting that the board unanimously decided to add a new statement to Fedora's legal guidelines concerning
"Fedora 14 is a good distribution. Parts of it may not be for the inexperienced, such as partitioning disk drives. It may also require
the inclusion of hacking tools....Smith said the language is intended to clarify its stance on a class of software that can be used both to
more knowledge and understanding to add multimedia functionality to the system, but once everything is set up, the user is generally good to go"
secure and penetrate protected networks.


“It's very much a gray area, and as a Board we wanted to ensure that we were careful and deliberate about the kinds of tools we choose to
The full article is available<ref>http://www.muktware.com/a/51/418/22/2010/504</ref>.
put in Fedora,” he explained.
 
For the record, Fedora already includes a host of other hacking tools, including Jack John the Ripper, Ettercap, Dsniff, Yersinia, Nessus and
Nikto, to name a small few."
 
The full article is available<ref>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/11/fedora_hacker_tool_ban/</ref>.


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=== Fedora Board likely to reconsider SQLNinja, but should they? - (Network World) ===
=== Run Applications in Secure Sandboxes with SELinux (Linux.com) ===


Rahul Sundaram forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-November/013588.html</ref> a followup on the SQLNinja packaging question for Fedora 15:
Rahul Sundaram forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-November/013600.html</ref> an article in Linux.com about SELinux's sandbox approach to application security:  


"The chorus crying about the exclusion of SQLNinja has nothing at stake, nothing at risk if Fedora ships SQLNinja. On the other hand, Fedora as a
"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
project under Red Hat's wing can expose the parent company to legal risk — not to mention risk to its reputation. Imagine for a moment the headlines about Red Hat shipping a SQL Server takeover tool in Fedora 15, especially if it actually is *used* to conduct an attack of any magnitude. If you want to get on the slippery slope, Red Hat and the Fedora Board have very good reasons for rejecting SQLNinja."
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<ref>http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/68571</ref>
The full article is available<ref>http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/382226-run-applications-in-secure-sandboxes-with-selinux</ref>


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=== Fedora 14 mini-review (Linux In Exile) ===
=== Fedora 14: Strong follow-up to 13 still suffers from same niche appeal (Linux In Exile) ===


Rahul Sundaram forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-November/013547.html</ref> another blog review of Fedora 14:
Rahul Sundaram forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-November/013547.html</ref> another blog review of Fedora 14:


"As you know, Fedora 14 released this week. I prefer Fedora as my Linux distro, so I downloaded the new version right away. Here is my mini-review.  I freaking love it."
"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
The full post is available<ref>http://linuxinexile.blogspot.com/2010/11/fedora-14-mini-review.html</ref>
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)."
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=== Ubuntu vs Fedora: which is best? (Tech Radar) ===
 
Rahul Sundaram forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-November/013582.html</ref> a comparison of the latest versions of Fedora and Ubuntu:
 
"Ubuntu goes out of the way to make things easier for the user, who often couldn't care less if they are 'tainting' their system, whereas
Fedora goes out of its way to do the right thing."
 
The full post is available<ref>http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/ubuntu-vs-fedora-which-is-best--907546?artc_pg=1</ref>
 
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=== Fedora 14: Who is Reviewing the Reviewers? (Montana Linux) ===
 
Rahul Sundaram forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-November/013585.html</ref>
 
"Distrowatch had a review of Fedora 14 as a feature of their weekly edition. In it they had some background information, mentioned that the
Fedora Project has a new website, had a mini-interview with Fedora Project Leader Jared Smith, and then proceeded to go through the actual
Fedora 14 release.
 
They didn't find Fedora to be perfect (it isn't nor is any Linux distribution) nor did they find any major flaws. The reviewer mentioned
what he thought Fedoras strengths were as well as some of areas that need additional attention. I thought it was a reasonable review and that
the reviewer had actually put a considerable amount of time and effort into it... trying to be an information resource for the reader."
 
The full post is available<ref>http://www.montanalinux.org/fedora-14-reviews-review.html</ref>
 
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=== Fedora Welcomes in New Management (Ostatic.com) ===
 
Rahul Sundaram forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-November/013583.html</ref> a post covering recent Fedora Project personnel changes:
 
"Jared Smith, Fedora Project Leader, has announced some personnel changes within the Fedora project that show, as Smith says, "every
person in the Fedora community is a potential leader." According to Smith, Fedora's "policies of rotating leadership help ensure that
everyone who is so inclined has a chance to lead and serve."


The full post is available<ref>http://ostatic.com/blog/fedora-welcomes-in-new-management</ref>  
The full post is available<ref>http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=1982</ref>  


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=== Red Hat's Fedora 14 Boasts Updated Development Tools, New Virtualization Technology (eWeek) ===
=== Fuduntu Is A Fedora 14 Remix For Netbooks And Laptops (webupd8.org) ===
 
Kara Schlitz forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-November/013581.html</ref> a review of Fedora 14 from eWeek:


"Fedora 14, the latest release of Red Hat's fast-moving, community-supported Linux distribution, hit the Internet earlier this month bearing its typical crop of updated open-source software applications, with a particular focus on updated developer tools, such as the latest versions of the Eclipse and Netbeans Integrated Development Environments. As far as new features are concerned, Fedora 14 is a fairly modest release, particularly when compared to the latest from Fedora's chief Linux rival, Ubuntu.
Rahul Sundaram forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-November/013582.html</ref> announcement of a new Fedora 14 remix for Asus Eee netbooks:


The Fedora feature that most caught my eye was the addition of software packages to enable Spice, the remote desktop protocol that Red Hat
"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
picked up in its 2008 acquisition of Qumranet, the creator of Red Hat's KVM open-source hypervisor. While KVM was fairly quickly digested into
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 distributions of Red Hat and other Linux vendors, Spice has proven more of a challenge, due in large part to the fact that it started out
as a proprietary technology<ref>http://www.eweek.com/#</ref>.


The full post is available<ref>http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Red-Hats-Fedora-14-Boasts-Updated-Development-Tools-New-Virtualization-Technology-784875/?kc=EWKNLLIN11162010STR2</ref>  
The full post is available<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-November/013592.html</ref>  


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=== Fedora To Eventually Move to Wayland, Too (OSNews) ===
=== openrespect.org sorgt für Uneinigkeit (Pro-Linux.de Germany) ===
 
Henryk Heigl forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-November/013590.html</ref> another posting on openrespect in which he provides some rough English translation:
Jonathan Nalley forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-November/013562.html</ref> a message on Fedora's future adoption of Wayland to replace X.org:


"It turns out that Ubuntu isn't the only Linux distribution who took a left turn off the X.org highway, now driving on a road that will
"Originally the declaration should be carried by several projects together. This can be inferred anyhow to minutes<ref>http://66.196.80.202/babelfish/translate_url_content?.intl=de&lp=de_en&trurl=https%3a%2f%2ffedoraproject.org%2fwiki%2fMeeting%3aBoard_meeting_2010-11-08#OpenRespect.org</ref> 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."
eventually lead to replacing X.org with Wayland. Fedora's 'graphics cabal', as they call themselves, have explained themselves on Fedora's
devel mailing list. They also explain how network transparency can be added to Wayland in a number of different ways, making the mailing
list thread intriguing reading material."


The full post is available<ref>http://www.osnews.com/story/24029/Fedora_To_Eventually_Move_to_Wayland_Too</ref>  
The full post, in German, is available<ref>http://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/16401/openrespectorg-sorgt-fuer-uneinigkeit.html
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=== Fedora Scholarship Program to Proliferate Open Source Technology (InfoTech Spotlight) ===
=== Spotlight on Linux: Fedora 14 (Linux Journal) ===
 
Jonathan Nalley forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-November/013557.html</ref> a post on the the Fedora Scholarship program:


"The Fedora Project announced the opening of the 2011 Fedora Scholarship program, an award that recognizes the contributions of college and University students toward the project. It is awarded to one high school senior annually to assist in college or university education. This is the fourth year since this particular scholarship program has taken off.
Rahul Sundaram forwarded<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-November/013589.html</ref> Linux Journal coverage of Fedora 14:
 
Jared Smith, Fedora project leader at Red Hat, said that the scholarship is recognition of talent in the young in the pursuit of innovation, and hopes to encourage and foster future technologists to develop and contribute technology openly."
 
The full post is available<ref>http://it.tmcnet.com/topics/it/articles/116731-fedora-scholarship-program-proliferate-open-source-technology.htm</ref>  
 
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=== Did Ubuntu disrespect Fedora Linux with openrespect? ===
"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.


"To be fair, I have not contacted Bacon for his side of this story, but the fact that Fedora has publicly posted this as part of their
Another advantage is the level of quality found throughout the distribution. Fedora developers contribute not only to Fedora, but also
Board notes gives me some confidence of the validity of the statement....The other thing that must happen for respect in open
to upstream projects, and cherish the highest standards of quality control. Bugs are everywhere in code and Fedora is no exception, but
source communities to occur, in my view is the oversight of a neutral third party. Openrespect as an effort led by Jono Bacon, will always
Fedora developers seem to rise just a bit higher than some other distributions."
be suspect for Ubunutu bias and ultimately that will render the effort marginally useless."


The full post is available<ref>http://it.tmcnet.com/topics/it/articles/116731-fedora-scholarship-program-proliferate-open-source-technology.htm</ref>  
The full post is available<ref>http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/spotlight-linux-fedora-14</ref>  


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Revision as of 17:28, 22 November 2010

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[1]

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing

Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/

Fedora 14 aka Laughlin Review (muktware)

Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] 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[2].

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-November/013601.html
  2. ↑ http://www.muktware.com/a/51/418/22/2010/504

Run Applications in Secure Sandboxes with SELinux (Linux.com)

Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] 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[2]

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-November/013600.html
  2. ↑ http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/382226-run-applications-in-secure-sandboxes-with-selinux

Fedora 14: Strong follow-up to 13 still suffers from same niche appeal (Linux In Exile)

Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] 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[2]

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-November/013547.html
  2. ↑ http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=1982

Fuduntu Is A Fedora 14 Remix For Netbooks And Laptops (webupd8.org)

Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] 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[2]

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-November/013582.html
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-November/013592.html

openrespect.org sorgt für Uneinigkeit (Pro-Linux.de Germany)

Henryk Heigl forwarded[1] 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[2] 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[3]

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-November/013590.html
  2. ↑ http://66.196.80.202/babelfish/translate_url_content?.intl=de&lp=de_en&trurl=https%3a%2f%2ffedoraproject.org%2fwiki%2fMeeting%3aBoard_meeting_2010-11-08#OpenRespect.org
  3. ↑ http://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/16401/openrespectorg-sorgt-fuer-uneinigkeit.html

Spotlight on Linux: Fedora 14 (Linux Journal)

Rahul Sundaram forwarded[1] 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[2]

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-November/013589.html
  2. ↑ http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/spotlight-linux-fedora-14
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