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
James Morris mentioned[1] how Red Hat has handled a recent 2.6.30 kernel null pointer vulnerability, and who it affects (probably no RHEL customers).
Luca Foppiano described[2] how to configure Twinkle, the QT VoIP client, to work with Fedora Talk.
Peter Hutterer continued[3] the XI2 Recipes series with "the common input events and the data they include". Peter also explained[4][5] some additional details about new XLib APIs to handle cookies and associated data.
Paul W. Frields wrote[6] about configuring and optimizing postfix for remote/disconnected operation.
Kevin Higgins posted[7] photos from the Vancouver Fedora 11 Release Party.
Michael Tiemann questioned[8] the Association for Competitive Technology's recent accusations against the European Commission "of having a bias in favor of open source."
Greg DeKoenigsberg suggested[9] that "creating a strong 'patch culture'" for Spacewalk (and by extension, open source projects in general) can be accomplished by setting a strong example. "People behave as they see others behave."
Luke Macken posted[10] some pretty pictures of Fedora 9 package update metrics.
Seth Vidal came up with[11] a list of "critical path" packages "that require special care when updating in rawhide and releases". For more information, see the Critical Path Packages Proposal.
Daniel Walsh added[12] another SELinux how-to, to the ongoing series, this time fixing a "denial message about vpnc_t trying to read a file labeled user_home_t."
Matthew Garrett chimed in[13] about RMS' recent comments regarding the "cult of the virgin of emacs".
Máirín Duffy displayed[14] mockups of a net system-config-selinux dialog mockup.
Marc Ferguson instructed[15] how to install Chromium (the Open Source project version of Google's Chrome web browser) on Fedora 11.
James Laska called out[16] for anyone interested in joining the Fedora QA efforts, and pointed out some exemplary guides on the Fedora Wiki to assist in debugging particular projects.
Karsten Wade explained[17] some background around the Fedora Infrastructure team's implementation of Zikula, a new content management system that will be used for various Fedora teams.
Andrew Vermilya Jamison reviewed[18] KDE4 on Fedora, from the perspective of a Gnome user.
Julian Aloofi reviewed[19] Hannah Montana Linux. Scary.
- ↑ http://blog.namei.org/2009/07/18/a-brief-note-on-the-2630-kernel-null-pointer-vulnerability/
- ↑ http://blog.foppiano.org/2009/07/12/twinkle-configuration-howto/
- ↑ http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/07/xi2-recipes-part-4.html
- ↑ http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/07/xlib-cookie-events.html
- ↑ http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/07/xi2-and-xlib-cookies.html
- ↑ http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=2616
- ↑ http://crossbytes.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/vancouver-fedora-11-release-party-pictures-walking-with-the-lions/
- ↑ http://opensource.org/node/447
- ↑ http://gregdek.livejournal.com/51507.html
- ↑ http://lewk.org/blog/f9-updates.html
- ↑ http://skvidal.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/critical-path-package-owners/
- ↑ http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/29790.html
- ↑ http://mjg59.livejournal.com/113408.html
- ↑ http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/system-config-selinux-mocks/
- ↑ http://www.fergytech.com/2009/07/a-chromium-rpm-on-fedora-11/
- ↑ http://jlaska.livejournal.com/5693.html
- ↑ http://iquaid.org/2009/07/16/fedora-zikula-infrastructure-of-freedom-ftw/
- ↑ http://blogs.andyjamison.com/andy/?p=85
- ↑ http://julianaloofi.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/distro-review-hm-linux/