Planet Fedora
In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide.
http://planet.fedoraproject.org
Contributing Writer: Max Spevack
Shameless Recruiting Pitch
We begin this week's summary of Planet Fedora with a recruitment pitch for Fedora Weekly News beat writers, scribed by Karsten Wade.
Intel's Moblin moves to Fedora
The topic that took Planet Fedora by storm on Friday and Saturday was the announcement of Intel's Moblin moving from Ubuntu to Fedora as its base OS. Yaakov Nemoy, John Palmieri, Seth Vidal, and Karsten Wade all weighed in with their thoughts.
Events
A number of event reports were posted on Planet Fedora this week.
- LUG Radio Live UK, attended by Max Spevack.
- Ottawa Linux Symposium (day 1), as reported by Dennis Gilmore.
- LTSP Hackfest (day 1), which included hackers from numerous Linux distros, and Fedora's own Warren Togami.
- A GUADEC trip report (including pictures) from Dimitris Glezos.
- A second place finish in the 2008 RoboCup World Championships, with a report from Tim Niemueller.
In other event news:
- Sandro "red" Mathys has posted details about the upcoming Fedora Ambassador Day EMEA.
- James Morris shares his Ottawa Linux Symposium paper with us, which is a detailed update on SELinux.
Tech Tidbits
Transifex 0.3 has been released. "Transifex 0.3 is a major release, including a lot of under-the-hood changes. We’ve added full i18n support, and now in addition to the templates, per-module information stored in the database, such as names and descriptions, can be translated as well," explains project lead Dimitris Glezos.
Lorenzo Villani is working on adding the ZYpp stack into Fedora. He explains, "It seems that with the latest releases of sat-solver, libzypp and zypper, the whole stack has become more stable on Fedora, especially, in the past few weeks I wasn’t able to update packages due to various resolver’s problems, but now it seems that 'zypper up' does its job smoothly."
Fedora Electronics Lab now has its own mailing list, and there has been lots of discussion about this particular respin on Planet Fedora over the past few days.
Red Hat Magazine has a great article about NetworkManager, written by Kyle Gonzales.
Other Interesting Posts
Nicu Buculei gives us a detailed look at the first round of themes that have been developed by the Art Team for Fedora 10.
David Nalley authors what might be the first in a four part series about Fedora's new "Freedom, Friends, Features, First" marketing focus. This post focuses on the Freedom topic.