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== Planet Fedora ==
== Planet Fedora ==


In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide.
This is the Planet Fedora section, covering news from planet.fedoraproject.org[http://planet.fedoraproject.org], a collection of blogs from Fedora users spanning the globe.  


http://planet.fedoraproject.org
Contributing Writer: [[User:Jbraun|Joel Braun]]


Contributing Writer: [[User:Abatkin|Adam Batkin]]
=== Events ===


=== General ===
====FudCon Pune 2011====
[[user:kishan|Kishan Goyal]] posted on his experience on day 2 at FudCon Pune<ref>http://kishangoyal.co.cc/post/12549697509/fudcon-pune-11-day-2</ref>.


[[ChrisBall|Chris Ball]] posted<ref>http://blog.printf.net/articles/2009/01/26/multi-pointer-remote-desktop</ref> a video and brief description of some patches to the Vino VNC server to support the multiple pointers on X over VNC, so there will be no more fighting over the mouse cursor when connecting into another computer.
[[user:jsimon|Joerg Simon]] posted pictures<ref>http://kitall.blogspot.com/2011/11/fudcon-pune-2011-travel-und-event.html</ref> of the event.


[[User:Mjw|Mark J. Wielaard]] wrote<ref>http://gnu.wildebeest.org/diary/2009/01/29/what-are-you-working-on-systemtap/</ref> about what he does for a living at Red Hat, including a link to a LWN article that he wrote that provides a high-level overview of Systemtap.
[[user:izhar|Izhar Firdaus]] wrote about his experience<ref>http://blog.kagesenshi.org/2011/11/fudcon-pune-2011.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ShadowLogs%2FFedora+%28%3A%3A+Shadow+Logs%3A%3A+Fedora%29#!/2011/11/fudcon-pune-2011.html</ref> at FudCon, as well as some thoughts on the atmosphere of the event.


[[User:Jjmcd|John J. McDonough]] described<ref>http://wb8rcr.multiply.com/journal/item/87/The_relentless_march_of_change</ref> some of the upcoming changes to the Fedora Docs project, including its leadership.
[[user:suchakra|Suchakra]] also blogged on Fudcon Pune<ref>http://suchakra.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/fudcon%e2%86%94funcon-pune-2011/</ref>.


[[MatthewGarrett|Matthew Garrett]] discuessed<ref>http://mjg59.livejournal.com/106581.html</ref> some of the issues associated with power management under Linux and how "to make it sufficiently useful and inobtrusive that manual configuration is almost never required."
[[user:kushal|Kushal Das]] posted photos<ref>http://kushaldas.in/2011/11/10/photoset-from-fudcon-pune-2011/</ref> of the event to his blog.
===Fedora Community===


[[GaryBenson|Gary Benson]] shared<ref>http://gbenson.net/?p=116</ref>,<ref>http://gbenson.net/?p=118</ref>,<ref>http://gbenson.net/?p=119</ref>,<ref>http://gbenson.net/?p=121</ref>,<ref>http://gbenson.net/?p=122</ref> a series of articles that he wrote about the internals of Zero and Shark (projects which extend OpenJDK to let it run on new platforms without additional and often cumbersome low-level CPU-specific support).
The release of Fedora 16 has been the main topic of the blogroll recently, and it's fair to say that it's being greeted with open arms by many of the users.


[[User:Mso|Martin Sourada]] developed<ref>http://mso-chronicles.blogspot.com/2009/01/developing-new-library-for-icon-artists.html</ref> a set of scripts "which are intended to ease the life of echo-icon artist - they create new icons from template, are able to add icons/symlinks to echo icon theme and add manage their local git repository."
[[user:jjmartinez|Juanjo Martinez]] blogged on his first impressions of F16, calling it an "impressive release"<ref>http://engbblog.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/welcome-fedora-16/</ref>.


[[User:Danielsmw|Matthew Daniels]] mused<ref>http://danielsmw.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/social-responsibility/</ref> on the topic of "Social Responsibility" and getting technology out into people's hands everywhere and making all of this social hardware and software accessible.
===General===


[[User:Jonrob|Jonathan Roberts]] posted<ref>http://jonrob.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/gnome-30interfaces-in-general/</ref>,<ref>http://jonrob.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/gnome-30interfaces-in-general-part-2/</ref> some thoughts about how Gnome 3.0 could handle locating information ("Ubiquitous Search") and saving things automatically.
[[User:adamwill|Adam Williamson]] posted about <ref>http://www.happyassassin.net/2011/11/10/stupid-fedora-tricks/</ref>starting work on Fedora 17, and experimentation with the new kernel in a virtualized environment.
 
[[RichardHughes|Richard Hughes]] created <ref>http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2009/01/30/gnome-power-manager-and-processor-wakeups/</ref> a nice graphical UI front-end to Powertop.
 
[[AdamWilliamson|Adam Williamson]] expressed<ref>http://www.happyassassin.net/2009/01/30/intel-gma-500-poulsbo-graphics-on-linux-a-precise-and-comprehensive-summary-as-to-why-youre-screwed/</ref> some frustrations with the fact that the drivers for the Intel GMA 500 (Poulsbo) graphics chip (most notably used in the Dell Mini 12) don't seem to compile cleanly or integrate well with anything, and in fact only work on Ubuntu Netbook Remix.


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=== How-To ===
[[User:Ianweller|Ian Weller]] http://ianweller.org/2009/01/26/wiki-tip-for-the-week-of-jan-26-2009-moving-pages-with-ease/
[[KulbirSaini|Kulbir Saini]] http://fedora.co.in/content/how-setup-gitweb-fedoracentos
[[User:Dchen|Ding-Yi Chen]] http://dingyichen.livejournal.com/9382.html
[[User:Moixs|Steven Moix]] http://www.alphatek.info/2009/01/29/gsynaptics-touchpad-on-fedora-10-hal/

Latest revision as of 06:21, 11 November 2011

Planet Fedora

This is the Planet Fedora section, covering news from planet.fedoraproject.org[1], a collection of blogs from Fedora users spanning the globe.

Contributing Writer: Joel Braun

Events

FudCon Pune 2011

Kishan Goyal posted on his experience on day 2 at FudCon Pune[1].

Joerg Simon posted pictures[2] of the event.

Izhar Firdaus wrote about his experience[3] at FudCon, as well as some thoughts on the atmosphere of the event.

Suchakra also blogged on Fudcon Pune[4].

Kushal Das posted photos[5] of the event to his blog.

Fedora Community

The release of Fedora 16 has been the main topic of the blogroll recently, and it's fair to say that it's being greeted with open arms by many of the users.

Juanjo Martinez blogged on his first impressions of F16, calling it an "impressive release"[6].

General

Adam Williamson posted about [7]starting work on Fedora 17, and experimentation with the new kernel in a virtualized environment.

  1. ↑ http://kishangoyal.co.cc/post/12549697509/fudcon-pune-11-day-2
  2. ↑ http://kitall.blogspot.com/2011/11/fudcon-pune-2011-travel-und-event.html
  3. ↑ http://blog.kagesenshi.org/2011/11/fudcon-pune-2011.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ShadowLogs%2FFedora+%28%3A%3A+Shadow+Logs%3A%3A+Fedora%29#!/2011/11/fudcon-pune-2011.html
  4. ↑ http://suchakra.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/fudcon%e2%86%94funcon-pune-2011/
  5. ↑ http://kushaldas.in/2011/11/10/photoset-from-fudcon-pune-2011/
  6. ↑ http://engbblog.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/welcome-fedora-16/
  7. ↑ http://www.happyassassin.net/2011/11/10/stupid-fedora-tricks/
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