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Red Hat Linux 6 has been released<ref>http://press.redhat.com/2010/04/21/red-hat-enterprise-linux-6-beta-available-today-for-public-download/</ref>. [[User:Rjones|Richard W.M. Jones]] recommended<ref>http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/04/21/rhel-6-public-beta-1/</ref> taking a look at The Register's<ref>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/21/redhat_rhel6_beta_1/</ref> review.
In "Rethinking PID 1", [[User:Lennart|Lennart Poettering]] sketched<ref>http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html</ref> out the design and rationale for a new replacement of <tt>init</tt> and Upstart, and the entire boot process.


Meanwhile, [[User:Mjc|Mark J Cox]] took a look<ref>http://www.awe.com/mark/blog/20100427.html</ref> at the vulnerabilities and security updates in RHEL 5.5, as compared to 5.4 and earlier.
[[User:Rjones|Richard W.M. Jones]] explained<ref>http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/04/29/tip-get-a-windows-vm-to-run-a-batch-file-at-boot/</ref> how to get a Windows VM to run a batch file at boot time, as well as install<ref>http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/04/29/tip-install-a-service-in-a-windows-vm/</ref> a Windows service and install<ref>http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/04/30/tip-install-a-device-driver-in-a-windows-vm/</ref> a device driver, all remotely, using libguestfs.
 
[[User:Ctyler|Chris Tyler]] and students at Seneca have helped<ref>http://blog.chris.tylers.info/index.php?/archives/232-Seneca-and-the-Fedora-ARM-Secondary-Architecture.html</ref> get ARM rolling as a secondary architecture on Fedora. Meanwhile, [[User:Maxamillion|Adam John Miller]] wants<ref>http://pseudogen.blogspot.com/2010/04/why-i-hope-intel-breaks-arm-in-half.html</ref> that Intel chips for mobile devices continue to improve.
 
[[DanWilliams|Dan Williams]] shared<ref>http://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/2010/04/22/qualified-to-satisfy-you/</ref> some updates to ModemManager, a tool that can manage mobile (3G, etc...) connections under Linux.
 
[[User:Rjones|Richard W.M. Jones]] examined<ref>http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/half-baked-ideas-verify-the-integrity-of-vms/</ref> the concept of verifying a VM's integrity from the host (for example, using <tt>rpm -V</tt>). Richard also asked<ref>http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/04/25/should-you-ever-have-to-reinstall-vms/</ref> "Should you ever have to reinstall VMs?"
 
And Richard released<ref>http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/04/24/tech-talk-pse-1-0-0-released/</ref> Tech Talk PSE 1.0.
 
[[User:Kwade|Karsten Wade]] described<ref>http://iquaid.org/2010/04/23/source-repository-for-the-open-source-way/</ref> how to use "The Open Source Way: Creating and nurturing communities of contributors", a community-written textbook on Open Source and communities.
 
[[User:Moixs|Steven Moix]] posted<ref>http://www.alphatek.info/2010/04/25/6-months-with-kde-4-wrap-up/</ref> a summary of what it has been like to use KDE 4 on Fedora for the past six months.
 
[[GregDeK|Greg DeKoenigsberg]] suggested<ref>http://gregdekspeaks.wordpress.com/2010/04/25/math-education-and-the-commons/</ref> ways to move education forward, including that "jQuery is the ideal language for educational games."


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Revision as of 11:38, 4 May 2010

Planet Fedora

In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide.

Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin

General

In "Rethinking PID 1", Lennart Poettering sketched[1] out the design and rationale for a new replacement of init and Upstart, and the entire boot process.

Richard W.M. Jones explained[2] how to get a Windows VM to run a batch file at boot time, as well as install[3] a Windows service and install[4] a device driver, all remotely, using libguestfs.